Providing Safety, Comfort and Convenience for Metro Riders
The Civic Center Transit Center in downtown St. Louis, one of Metro’s busiest transit hubs, was redesigned and expanded to provide passengers with a better transit experience. The transit center was expanded to 18 bus bays, allowing it to accommodate all of the MetroBus routes serving downtown St. Louis. The Civic Center Transit Center also provides Metro riders with the highest level of passenger amenities and features the transit system has to offer, including public restrooms, an indoor waiting area, on-site MetroBus and security personnel, digital arrival-time boards and concessions.
“You have to compete for federal funds, and Metro and Bi-State Development are to be commended for securing $8.4 million in federal dollars to support this project,” said Mokhtee Ahmad, FTA Administrator for Region 7. “That investment is helping build a better and stronger transit system that will allow Metro to operate even more efficiently and safely, and better serve the needs of public transit riders and the region as a whole.”
- Start Date: April 2016
- Completion Date: July 2017
- Project cost: $10.5 million
- Amenities:
- Public restrooms
- Indoor, climate-controlled waiting area
- On-site security – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- Digital arrival-time display boards
- Outdoor bus shelters
- Café Blue Concessions
- Transit Assets:
- 18 bus bays
- Easily serves 23 MetroBus routes
- Accommodations for 60-foot buses and electric buses
- Access to MetroLink
- General Contractor: KCI Construction
- Project Designers: Arcturis
More Information:
MetroBus Resumes Service at Expanded Civic Center Transit Center on August 14
Special Events Planned Ahead of Civic Center Transit Center Reopening
MetroBus Service Returns to Civic Center Transit Center
Cafe Blue Serves Up Treats at Civic Center Transit Center