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The historic Eads Bridge has spanned the Mississippi River at St. Louis since 1874 and today carries thousands of MetroLink passengers and hundreds of personal and commercial vehicles between Missouri and Illinois every day. While the image of the bridge is familiar to most residents of the region, some of the elegant structural details of [...]

If you have been on Laclede’s Landing or taken MetroLink across the Eads Bridge lately, then you may have noticed a white cocoon-like tarp covering a small section of the bridge on the north side. It is called the blast containment area and crews installed it as part of the Eads Bridge rehabilitation project which [...]

As the new year arrives, you will start to see more construction activities on the historic Eads Bridge rail deck. If you travel back and forth over the bridge on MetroLink, you may have noticed workers installing scaffolding during the past few months. The scaffolding will provide a platform from which tradesmen who are restoring [...]

Work is scheduled on the MetroLink system this week tonight through Thursday (December 17-20) and some passengers may experience delays in the work zones. The affected areas of the MetroLink system are: College MetroLink Station Shiloh-Scott MetroLink Station Central West End MetroLink Station Grand MetroLink Station Trains will not operate in Illinois between the College [...]

Traffic lane closures begin on the Eads Bridge on Monday, October 1, 2012 to accommodate extensive rehabilitation work on the support structure of the national landmark. To avoid rush hour traffic delays, one option you may want to consider is taking MetroLink to get back and forth from Missouri to Illinois. With the Eads Bridge [...]

Did you know when the Eads Bridge was built it was as long as about 18 football fields and it paved the way for construction of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City? Or that the new Mississippi River Bridge, the first bridge built connecting Missouri and Illinois in 40 years, will weigh 31 million [...]

Metro Transit today announced it will restore the historic Eads Bridge in what is the first extensive rehabilitation of the support structure of the bridge in its 138-year history. The work is needed to protect this national landmark and upgrade an important piece of the region’s $1.8 billion transit infrastructure so it can continue to [...]

Due to construction work, MetroLink will conduct single track operations on Sunday at two different locations. The first location is between the East Riverfront and Arch-Laclede’s Landing stations. The second single track operation will occur late Sunday evening between the Wellston, Rock Road, UMSL South, UMSL North, and North Hanley stations. That work will cause [...]

UPDATE 4/21/2012: As Metro previously advised, MetroLink trains will not operate between the Busch Stadium MetroLink Station and the 5th & Missouri Station Sunday morning to accommodate work on the MetroLink overhead wires. Red and Blue Line passengers will be transported by bus shuttles between those stations from the beginning of service until noon tomorrow, April [...]

Construction work at the East Riverfront MetroLink Station continues this week. Here is a list of service changes affecting MetroLink riders due to the construction: Monday through Friday & Sunday, November 20 MetroLink will operate on a single track at the East Riverfront MetroLink Station starting at 8 p.m. every weeknight and on Sunday night. Red Line [...]