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UPDATE: As of Tuesday morning, Google Transit directions are available at www.google.com/transit or www.metrostlouis.org. The first phase in Metro’s Restoration 2010 began today with additional or new service being offered on MetroLink and Missouri MetroBus (see a previous post for complete listing of route and schedule changes). Phase 1 focuses on increasing rush-hour MetroLink train [...]

As we’ve mentioned several times on Nextstop, Metro will be enacting the first phase of Restoration 2010 service changes on June 28.  For thousands of Metro customers their usual trip times and connections will change next Monday.  If you have a smart phone with a transit planning app or regularly use Google Transit, this may [...]

Hoorah, the Forest Park Shuttle is back! Stepping ahead of the other Restoration 2010 plans, the #3 Forest Park Shuttle will begin service Saturday, May 29 in time for the holiday weekend.  Forest Park is alive and blooming with trees, breezes, bikes and grass, so Memorial Day weekend is a great time to reintroduce yourself [...]

St. Louis Metro Transit Proposed Restoration Routes April 2010 Here is the map that Metro’s Planning Department is presenting at our public meetings.  The map provides a rough outline of what the proposed changes would look like on a regional map.  Please review along with the proposed route changes for Phases 1-3, and consider answering [...]

Here is a listing of all of the proposed service changes for Restoration 2010 for Phases 1-3. Tomorrow I will explain on the blog, with the help of Chief of Planning and System Development Jessica Mefford-Miller, why it is necessary for Metro to implement these changes in phases as opposed to all at once. It [...]

Starting this week, members of the Metro planning department will be out in the community giving presentations on the proposed changes in transit service for Restoration 2010. The proposed changes are based on route performance and ridership information, but they are open for public comment and suggestion. We want to know what you think about [...]

Drum roll please….here is the list of proposed transit service changes through the rest of 2010. The changes will come in three phases while we hire and train operator and procure more buses. Also, it allows for time for public comment and outreach.  Metro will be conducting public meetings and asking for feedback through May [...]

Starting last Wednesday morning, just hours after St. Louis County voters approved Proposition A, we started receiving calls about service restoration. Not surprisingly, many people who have lost service, sometimes even entire bus routes, are very interested in how Metro intends to keep up our promise to restore service. So we need your input. Starting [...]

There’s a very nice article out today in the St. Louis Beacon that features Metro’s Jessica Mefford-Miller, our new Chief Planner, discussing the August 3 service changes. She discusses ridership numbers, the new routes, and funding issues, making several interesting points: The Planning Department tries to collect more than one month of ridership data before [...]