Category: Transit
Forest Park Ave Busway
Even when the outcome is a foregone conclusion, every major project transporation seeking federal funding needs to perform an environmental impact report. As part of the EIR process, multiple alternatives are studied to address the purpose and need statement; most...
What May Have Been: Delmar Loop MetroLink Station
// 1987 Metro Link FEIS. These drawings of the Delmar Loop MetroLink station are from the 1987 Metro Link Final Environmental Impact Statement. Obviously, plans for the station were changed prior to construction. In the drawings, a pedestrian bridge crosses...
Loop Trolley Answers Questions and Comments From Long Ago
Following the release of the draft environmental assessment for the Loop Trolley project back in May, did you submit a question or comment at the open house or during the comment period? If you did, the draft EA has been...
What May Have Been: Convention Center MetroLink Station
Drawing of the Convention Center MetroLink station from the 1987 Metro Link FEIS. Plans for this station were changed in at least two significant ways prior to construction. First, the direct entrance into the basement level of Dillard’s was removed....
BJC-CORTEX Monorail!
The recent request for proposals sent out by the St. Louis Development Corporation mentioned the possibility of a people mover(!) running east-west from Boyle to Euclid. Since a single sentence is the extent of knowledge about why BJC is considering...
What May Have Been: Stadium MetroLink Station
This drawing of the Stadium MetroLink station is from the 1987 Metro Link Final Environmental Impact Statement. Obviously, plans for the station were changed prior to construction. The drawing shows 4 tracks and three platforms at the station. The southern/lower...
CORTEX Splitting the MetroLink Difference
The St. Louis Development Corporation recently issued a request for proposals. To help the fledging CORTEX district reach its potential as it enters phase 2 of its development, the SLDC is seeking consulting services to examine the potential for transit-oriented...
A Voice for All Transit Riders in St. Louis
Today, on the 62th anniversary of the formation of the Bi-State Development Agency, we are pleased to announce the formation of the Transit Riders Union of St. Louis (TRUSTL) which will fight for the public transit needs of the citizens...
Metro Looks for New Downtown Transit Hub
The Civic Center Transit Center is overcrowded. According to Metro, the limited space at Civic Center forces many buses to stop on-street and is responsible for many poorly timed connections. To remedy the capacity issue, Metro is considering either: expanding...
Metro Responds
Metro responded via Facebook to my recent post concerning the lack of bus service downtown. The Facebook note in its entirety: Metro instituted the Downtown Trolley during service restoration to serve the destinations east of 14th street by bus. The...
Missing: Local Bus Service in Downtown St. Louis
In a very short post on my Gateway Streets blog yesterday, I posed a very simple question. From just about anywhere in the St. Louis region, “will this bus take me to downtown St. Louis”? The answer, as I so...