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The Blue Line is the newer and shorter line of the MetroLink light rail service in Greater St. Louis.It serves 25 stations across three counties and two states.. While officially light rail, the Blue Line features many characteristics of a light metro, semi-metro or rapid transit service, [1] including a completely independent right of way, a higher top speed, and level boarding at all platforms.
Interior view of the 8th & Pine subway station in downtown St. Louis Platform at Clayton station in 2023 A train at the Terminal 1 station at St. Louis Lambert International Airport East Riverfront station in 2008 A view of the brick arches in the historic St. Louis Freight Tunnel, now used for MetroLink Platform of the Civic Center station (I-64 ramps can be seen in the background) West side ...
MetroLink (reporting mark BSDA) is a light rail system [7] [8] that serves the Greater St. Louis area. Operated by Metro Transit in a shared fare system with MetroBus, [9] the two-line, 38-station system runs from St. Louis Lambert International Airport and Shrewsbury in Missouri to Scott Air Force Base in Illinois.
[17] [18] In 2013, the St. Louis County Council authorized loaning Metro $400 million of surplus Proposition A funds to pay off debt related to the Cross County extension. [19] In 2019, the State of Illinois provided the St. Clair County Transit District (SCCTD) $96 million in funding to extend MetroLink from Shiloh-Scott to MidAmerica St ...
Ewing Yard with some SD-400 and SD-460 cars. Metro Transit, the public transit operator in the Greater St. Louis area, operates two rail yards for the MetroLink light rail system, four bus depots for MetroBus and Metro Call-A-Ride services, and one streetcar barn for the Loop Trolley.
The Red Line is the older and longer line of the MetroLink light rail system in Greater St. Louis.It serves 29 stations across three counties and two states.. While officially light rail, the Red Line has many characteristics of a light metro, rapid transit, or semi-metro service, [1] including an independent right-of-way, a higher top speed, and level boarding at all platforms.
Shrewsbury–Lansdowne I-44 station is a light rail station on the Blue Line of the St. Louis MetroLink system. [5] This station is located on an embankment near Lansdowne Avenue and River Des Peres Boulevard in St. Louis near its boundary with Shrewsbury in St. Louis County.
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. [42]