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Today Mokhtee Ahmad, Regional Administrator for Region 7, Federal Transit Administration (FTA), Steven Engelhardt, Office of Congressman Lacy Clay, Brian Goggins, President of Byrne & Jones Construction, John Nations, CEO of Metro, and other Metro representatives gathered to talk about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) projects, public transit, and job creation in St. [...]

As the Online Media Specialist for Metro, I hear a lot of suggestions and concerns from Metro riders.  Almost all of these suggestions get passed along, and often are incorporated into our customer service feedback or planning decisions. Sometimes we run across the opportunity to take feedback from social media and engage it throughout the [...]

Metro is currently busy upgrading many bus stops in St. Louis City and County to ADA compliance.  You may have noticed some changes in to your neighborhood bus stops: Metro partnered with Paraquad for input and reviewed customer complaints, along with the criteria listed in the link above, to decide which stops would be addressed [...]

What did you do at work today?  Send some e-mails, update your calendar, attend some meetings, walk through the inside of a bridge… Wait, what?  Metro Engineering intern Justin Pattison walked through the Eads Bridge today (yes, he is trained to do that!), and he shared with me some of the photos he took.   [...]

Here’s the fun we can expect in fiscal year 2011, starting July 1, 2010! The Metro Board of Commissioners today approved an operating budget of $232.4 million for Fiscal Year 2011 that includes funds to restore transit services that were cut in 2009. The budget includes freezes on salaries and hiring and reductions to expenditures [...]

Metro engages in two areas of activity: one, transit operations for MetroLink, MetroBus and Metro Call-A-Ride, and two, capital projects.  “Capital” projects are projects that add to the infrastructure of the system – think buses, railroad ties, bridges, and buildings. Major repairs, too, like replacing parts of the track or the overhead catenary system, come [...]

Congratulations to the Vandeventer Bridge demolition and construction team…the bridge is now open to MetroLink service between the Central West End and Grand stations.  It opens today, three days ahead of schedule. The $5-million project to replace the 80-year-old bridge is due to a federal grant for transit capital projects.  The bridge had a number [...]