What Metro Means to You

How Does Transit Impact Your Community?

Metro services, including MetroBus, MetroLink, and Call-A-Ride, have significant impact on the mobility and livlihood of residents of the St. Louis Region. For questions about the level of service that is provided in your community, Metro has designed a page that provides specific details about transit services in each of the twenty-eight St. Louis City Aldermanic Wards, and nine council districts in St. Louis County. Similar information will be provided about our Illinois communities in the future.

For a detailed view of MetroBus, MetroLink and Metro Call-A-Ride ridership in those areas, an easy click of your mouse can show you specific details.

The "More Metro" Approach

In August of 2006, the Metro Transit system underwent a dramatic change given the name "Metro Redefined". Along with the grand opening of the Shrewsbury MetroLink Extension, the entire MetroBus system was redesigned to provide customers with "More Metro" offering nine new MetroLink stations and 1800 new park ride spaces in the central corridors of St. Louis City and County. Redefined MetroBus service is providing better connections, more route coverage, better frequency, more hours and days of service plus a new MetroBus transit center in North St. Louis. The results so far have been more Metro customers experiencing more choices, faster trips, more timely connections to more distant employment centers in far north, south, west and central St. Louis County, all while continuing quality service for existing customers by preserving historic routes in the core of the Metro system.

• MetroLink, operating six trips per hour, has the capacity to carry 1,800 passengers per hour in a single direction. This can remove nearly 1,636 cars per hour from our highway system each direction, eliminating the need for nearly one lane of traffic during the planned I-64 Reconstruction. (I-64 can carry 1,600 to 1,800 cars per hour in a single direction.)
• The Metro system serves 11,669 park and ride spaces offering convenient drive access to most neighborhoods in the region.
• The Central West End MetroLink station exceeds 6,000 average daily boardings, making it the single busiest station on the Metro system.
• 25,000 Washington University students, faculty, and staff are provided unlimited Metro passes by the University; 45% of them are now regular transit users.
• Over 100 area employers participate in Metro's Partial Expense Reduction for Commuters (PERC) transit benefit program and the number is growing.
• Metro carries approximately 15% of Cardinal Baseball passengers and carried 33% of the 66,000 runners at the 2007 Race for the Cure
• Call-A-Ride (Metro's paratransit service) provides over 55,000 trips each month to customers with disabilities in Missouri. This program guarantees mobility for disabled citizens in St. Louis City and County who are unable to drive and cannot use MetroBus or MetroLink.
• Metro passengers in St. Louis City and County account for over $2 billion in wage income earned each year. Transit means good business for the St. Louis Region.

Metro services including MetroBus, MetroLink, and Call-A-Ride have a significant impact on the mobility and livelihood of residents St. Louis Region. We would like to share information about the impact of Metro service in your area with you. Visit the maps on the other Tabs on this page to find out how Metro impacts your community.

St. Louis County Council Districts
(Click on your council district number to view detailed map)

• Passenger boardings reported in the above maps represent an average day, based on passenger count data collected from September 2006 - February 2007.
• To give you an idea of the cost involved in providing transit service, we've estimated the annual subsidy required for serving the transit passengers in each district. This dollar amount represents the operating costs minus passenger revenue generated from fare boxes, ticket and pass sales.
• The number of unduplicated transit riders in each ward is estimated based on passenger count data (accounting for transfer frequency by mode and trip frequencies).
• Income generated by transit passengers are estimated based on passenger count data and average income for passengers of each transit mode (obtained from Metro's annual fare survey)

City of St. Louis Aldermanic Wards
(Click on your ward number to view detailed map)

• Passenger boardings reported in the above maps represent an average day, based on passenger count data collected from September 2006 - February 2007.
• To give you an idea of the cost involved in providing transit service, we've estimated the annual subsidy required for serving the transit passengers in each district. This dollar amount represents the operating costs minus passenger revenue generated from fare boxes, ticket and pass sales.
• The number of unduplicated transit riders in each ward is estimated based on passenger count data (accounting for transfer frequency by mode and trip frequencies).
• Income generated by transit passengers are estimated based on passenger count data and average income for passengers of each transit mode (obtained from Metro's annual fare survey).

St. Clair County Service Areas
(Click on the city name to view detailed map)

• Passenger boardings reported in the above maps represent an average day, based on passenger count data collected from September 2006 - February 2007.
• To give you an idea of the cost involved in providing transit service, we've estimated the annual subsidy required for serving the transit passengers in each district. This dollar amount represents the operating costs minus passenger revenue generated from fare boxes, ticket and pass sales.
• The number of unduplicated transit riders in each ward is estimated based on passenger count data (accounting for transfer frequency by mode and trip frequencies).
• Income generated by transit passengers are estimated based on passenger count data and average income for passengers of each transit mode (obtained from Metro's annual fare survey).