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The Board of Commissioners of the Bi-State Development Agency/Metro (BSDA/Metro) has approved a $306.3 million operating budget and $442.9 million (3 year) capital budget for Fiscal Year 2014 (FY2014).  The FY2014 budget allocates resources to run the transit system and all enterprises for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013 with a 3.7 percent increase [...]

Did you know that Metro operates the Gateway Arch attractions? That’s right! Not only is Metro in the transit business, but Metro is also in the tourism business. We operate the Gateway Arch tram, the Gateway Arch Riverboats, the Discovery Bike Rentals, and the Riverfront Helicopter Tours. Planning a trip down to the Riverfront just [...]

What are you doing Saturday night? Want to hang out at the Arch?! “Night at the Museum” at the Gateway Arch Saturday night promises to be a night of fun for kids and families. An exciting cast of characters will bring history to life as they talk about what it was like to settle the [...]

A new roller coaster on its way to Six Flags St. Louis made a pit stop at the Arch Monday. The new roller coaster, Boomerang, is a mix of twists, turns and loops. The 28-passenger trains are pulled up 125 feet backward to the top of the first lift hill and then released to shoot [...]

The new exhibit at the Gateway Arch’s Museum of Westward Expansion and its creators may surprise you.  Maplewood Richmond Heights Elementary School students put together the special exhibit, and it’s really extraordinary. The second through sixth grade students recently had a unique opportunity to learn about the roles and functions of National Park Service museum [...]

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and U.S. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar came to town yesterday to announce St. Louis has been awarded $20 million in federal grant money for pedestrian and roadway improvements as part of  the Archgrounds redevelopment project.  Salazar and LaHood were joined by U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, Congressman Russ Carnahan, Congressman Lacy [...]

This week, the world’s baseball fans will have their eyes on St. Louis and the Cardinals in the World Series. Inevitably, their eyes will also fall upon our most iconic image: the Gateway Arch. This weekend, the men and women who built the Arch will be in St. Louis to celebrate and share their stories [...]

The commitment to improve the Arch grounds at Jefferson Memorial National Park took a step forward today as the Bi-State Development Agency(BSDA) Board of Commissioners voted to create the TransRiver Authority, a nonprofit corporation that will, as an arm of the Agency, partner with the National Park Service (NPS) and CityArchRiver 2015 Foundation to manage [...]

Last night, members of the winning design team and stakeholders presented an update to the CityArchRiver2015 competition to reshape the Arch grounds, and to connect the Gateway Mall and East Riverfront to the Jefferson Memorial National Park and the Arch.  Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates outlined their concept, which included the closure of 3 blocks of [...]

Recently, questions have been asked about Metro’s $1 million FTA grant to connect the planned Soulard Bikeway Extension and the North Riverfront Trail, called the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Bike Connection.  Why is Metro involved in the project?  Isn’t Metro a transit agency? The answer is – yes, we are a transit agency and much [...]