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St. Louis MetroLink Red Line train leaving St. Louis Union Station University City-Big Bend Subway Station along the Blue Line, near Washington University. The St. Louis metro area is served by MetroLink (known as Metro) and is the 11th-largest light rail system in the country with 46 mi (74 km) of double track light rail. The Red Line and The ...
MetroLink ( reporting mark BSDA) is a light rail system that serves the Greater St. Louis area. Operated by Metro Transit in a shared fare system with MetroBus, [7] the two-line, 38-station system runs from St. Louis Lambert International Airport and Shrewsbury in Missouri to Scott Air Force Base in Illinois.
History. The need for a North-South MetroLink line was first identified during the East-West Gateway Council of Governments three corridor study in the year 2000. Officials identified a northern locally perfered alternative (LPA) that would have connected downtown St. Louis to St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley that would have cost $485.5 million.
Gateway Station is located next to the Civic Center Transit Center which serves MetroLink's Red and Blue lines and multiple MetroBus lines. It takes about 30 minutes to travel to St. Louis Lambert International Airport via the Red Line. Previous Amtrak facilities in St. Louis. Created in 1971, Amtrak originally operated from St. Louis Union ...
MetroLink currently has 38 stations; 13 are served only by the Red Line, nine only by the Blue Line, and the other 16 by both lines. Thirteen stations are located in the City of St. Louis; 14 in St. Louis County; and 11 in St. Clair County, Illinois. Central West End is the busiest station by daily ridership, Sunnen is the least busy.
The St. Louis region’s port system is the second-largest inland port system in the United States, and was ranked the most efficient port system by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The St. Louis regional port system is responsible for 8% of the 855 miles of the Mississippi River, but carries one-third of the river’s total freight.
Via Metro STL is an app-based, on-demand microtransit service provided by Via Transportation with Metro Transit. The service launched in June 2020 to serve exurban areas of St. Louis County with few bus stops and limited MetroLink service. It provides rides in three service zones; North, South and West.
St. Louis Union Station. St. Louis Union Station is a National Historic Landmark and former train station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. At its 1894 opening, the station was the largest in the world that had tracks and passenger service areas all on one level. Traffic peaked at 100,000 people a day in the 1940s. [3]