Metrolink Expansion

1999 MTIA Results - North, South and West corridors

Locally Preferred Alternatives:Northside Study Area

Alternative 3 Light Rail Transit
Alternative 3 follows:

• 14th Street
• Natural Bridge Road
• Riverview Blvd
• Norfolk Southern Railroad
• West Florissant Ave.

Planners designated the following stations for this alternative:

• 14th Street
• N. Florissant at St. Louis Ave.
• Parnell at Natural Bridge Rd.
• Grand at Natural Bridge Rd.
• Fair Avenue at Natural Bridge Road
• Newstead at Natural Bridge Road
• Kingshighway at Natural Bridge Road
• Union at Natural Bridge Road
• I-70
• Riverview
• Jennings Station
• Northland
• Chambers Road at W. Florissant Ave.
• Florissant Valley Community College

It would be completed in two phases with the first phase ending at the Northland Shopping Center in Jennings. The cost for the entire route would be $485.5 million.

The East-West Gateway directors also included a link between the north expansion and the west expansion that would follow the Terminal Railroad right-of-way connection designed to help people in north St. Louis to get to jobs in West County. There is no cost estimate as of yet for this link.

Locally Preferred Alternatives:Southside Study Area

Alternative 3 Light Rail Transit
Alternative 3 follows:

• 14th Street
• Chouteau Ave.
• Union Pacific Railroad Right-of-Way
• At Loughborough, I-55 Right-of-Way
• At Bayless, Trailnet Grant's Trail
• Cross County MetroLink Segment II

This route would connect in Green Park with the Cross County Phase II extension from Shrewsbury to Interstate 55 and Butler Hill Road in Oakville.

Planners designated the following stations for this alternative:

• Kiel Center Station on the existing
• MetroLink alignment
• 14th Street at Chouteau
• Jefferson at Chouteau
• Grand Ave. at Chouteau
• Shaw at I-44
• Arsenal
• Chippewa near Gravois
• Itaska at Delor
• Loughborough at I-55
• Bayless at I-55
• Reavis Barracks at I-55
• Green Park
• South County Center
• Butler Hill at I-55

The cost for this route would be $614.3 million.

Locally Preferred Alternative Daniel Boone Study Area

Alternative 3Light Rail Transit

Alternative 3 follows:

• Rock Island Right-of-way and Page
• Avenue to the WestPort Plaza area.

Planners designated the following stations for this alternative:

• Dielman at the Rock Island Right-of-way
• Lindbergh at the Rock Island Right-of-way
• Westport

The cost would be $249.5 million.