Potential MetroLink Extension Selected for St. Louis City

The Board of Directors of the East-West Gateway Council of Governments, our region’s metropolitan planning agency, has approved a potential MetroLink extension in the City of St. Louis. The board’s vote means that if or when light rail is expanded in the City, this is the route that should be considered. The approved extension, known in transit planning as a locally preferred alternative, would travel in the street, except along the I-55 right-of-way, as follows:
• From I-70 north near the Goodfellow Avenue exit south to Natural Bridge;
• East to North Florissant, south on 14th Street into Downtown;
• East on Convention Plaza, south to 10th Street, west on Clark, south to 14th Street; and
• West on Chouteau Avenue, exit south onto Jefferson, to Broadway exit to I-55 right-of-way and terminating at Bayless/I-55.
A separate set of tracks would move passengers, in the opposite direction, from south to north.

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