With only less than two months before the end of the 2025 Missouri Legislative Session, now is the time for transit supporters and riders to reach out on the importance of state investment in public transit. This year’s session began with Governor Kehoe reducing transit investment by $5 million from General Revenue. The budget is … Continued
Citizens for Modern Transit (CMT) – the region’s transit advocacy organization – has elected two new members to its Board of Directors, including Tim Brinker of Greater St. Louis, Inc., and Laura Stock of Clayco Enterprise. Both will serve multi-year terms. Brinker is the Senior Vice President for Government Relations for Greater St. Louis, Inc., … Continued
CMT in is undertaking a 20 month education campaign, which will include transit benefit programming, education on transit options, community campaigns, placemaking and transit access. CMT is seeking a firm to assist with these efforts in planning, executing and promoting these events and messaging items. The programs would include Social marketing; email outreach; promotional events; … Continued
Saint Louis County is inviting residents to help shape the future of the community at upcoming open houses in April. The County has been working to create a comprehensive plan that addresses some of the most challenging issues facing County residents, including housing affordability, transportation, sustainability, and more. To ensure that this plan truly reflects … Continued
Citizens for Modern Transit (CMT) and AARP in St. Louis– in partnership with Metro Transit, the City of St. Louis, St. Louis REALTORS®, and Ameren Missouri – today unveiled the Transit Stop Transformation Project at the MetroBus Stop, located at 13th Street and Gravois Avenue near Soulard. Key representatives of the project and elected officials … Continued
The Missouri Public Transit Association (MPTA) will host a virtual panel discussion on Wednesday April 9, 2025 to highlight the results of the 2025 Missouri Transit Needs Assessment Study. MPTA commissioned an update to the 2022 Statewide Transit Needs Assessment Study in January. St. Louis-based Lochmueller Group – a full-service survey, planning, engineering and environmental firm – … Continued
The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA), the transit agency in Kansas City, is potentially looking at proposed service reductions as a result of the increased cost of providing public transit in the post- COVID years and the depletion of federal pandemic funds. They will host two public meetings this week to discuss potential service … Continued
Metro Transit has announced they will hold 4 Community Connect events during the month of May. Community Connect events are an opportunity for the general public and transit riders to hear the latest transit news directly from Metro Transit staff in addition to sharing feedback regarding their own experience using transit. Three of the events … Continued
Metro Transit has announced that on Friday, March 14, riders will no longer be able to text a Metro phone number to find out when the next bus is coming. This feature had allowed riders to include their bus stop ID number in a text and they would receive a text back with information about … Continued
Celebrating 41 years of moving advocacy to action in 2025 FY25 is underscoring the fact that Transit matters. This year we are actively seeing light rail expansion happen in Ill, new technologies arriving in the region for transit, future growth opportunities including the Northside Southside corridor, transit transformations, ridership gains and more around the St. … Continued
Metro Transit will make minor schedule and routing changes to 17 MetroBus routes in Missouri and Illinois on Monday, March 17, as part of a quarterly service change. Metro uses feedback from customers and operators, along with trip data, to make changes to the transit system to improve on-time performance, bus-train connections, and provide better service. There are … Continued
At its February 28 Board meeting, the Bi-State Development Board of Commissioners approved a request to authorize the President & CEO to enter into a contract not to exceed $56,024,354 with Allied Universal Security Services, to provide Public Safety and Security Services for a five year period of time. On November 27, 2024, Bi-State Development … Continued
The Bi-State Board of Commissioners approved the FY 2026 Operating Budget and the Bi-State Development FY 2026 – FY 2028 Capital Budget. Approval by the Bi-State Board is the first of several steps in the annual budget approval process. The Operating Budget now moves to the three regional transit funding partners for review and approval … Continued
Metro Transit has announced that the installation of security gates as part of their Secure Platform Plan at both the Forest Park-DeBaliviere and Central West End MetroLink Stations is nearing completion and will come online on Friday, February 28. Beginning on Friday, transit riders entering the MetroLink platform will be asked to show security officers … Continued
Citizens for Modern Transit (CMT) and Missouri transit need your help. Yesterday Senate Bill B77, the conceal carry on transit bill sponsored by Senator Schnelting, was reported in and will now go on the Senate Perfection Calendar. Bills introduced this session in the MO House and Senate would allow individuals with conceal/carry permits to … Continued