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MetroLink customers may experience brief delays during evening commutes next week due to construction crews on the Eads Bridge. Starting at 8:00 p.m. on Monday, June 6 through Friday, June 10, until the end of service each night, MetroLink will operate a special construction schedule to accommodate work on the Eads Bridge.  Red Line trains [...]

MetroLink riders may experience brief delays in the evening next week due to construction crews on the Eads Bridge. Starting at 8:00 p.m. on Monday, May 23 through Thursday, May 26, until the end of service each night, MetroLink will operate a special schedule to accommodate work on the Eads Bridge. Red Line trains will [...]

MetroLink will be single tracking Wednesday, April 6 and Thursday, April 7 from 8 p.m. until the end of service. Wednesday, April 6 Grand Station Construction Single Track Blue Line trains will operate from Forest Park Station to Shrewsbury station only during single track operations. Eastbound departure times from Airport Terminal #1 (Lambert Airport) will [...]

The work on the historic Eads Bridge rehabilitation project is expected to take about three years total. The best way to assure a quality rehabilitation, but still maintain service levels, is to perform the work on one track while still running both eastbound and westbound MetroLink trains on the other track. To do that, Metro [...]

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.   [...]

If you’re familiar with downtown St. Louis, you’re familiar with the bridge that was completed in 1874 by James Eads. Metro shares ownership of the Eads Bridge with the City of St. Louis. In 2003, the City rehabbed the road deck – its portion of the bridge – but MetroLink’s track portion hasn’t been rehabbed [...]

As we contemplate Metro’s upcoming sixtieth anniversary, we’ll take some time on the blog to look back at Metro’s history and see how transit in St. Louis has changed over the last six decades. Today I want to discuss the capital improvements of Metro – that is, the infrastructure. One big part of Metro’s responsibility [...]