Driving through St. Louis City’s central corridor one will see construction cranes throughout the area as new buildings rise, bringing thousands of new apartments and condos to the city. Near the Forest Park – DeBaliviere Metrolink Station the Expo at Forest Park is nearing completion, bringing with it 287 market-rate luxury apartments. Just across DeBaliviere … Continued
Citizens for Modern Transit (CMT) and AARP in St. Louis in partnership with Metro Transit have turned their sights to the North Hanley Transit Center for the next transformation project. Transit riders, area residents, elected officials and stakeholders have the opportunity to provide insight on what they would like to see at the site via … Continued
President Biden and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced a more than $20 billion investment in American transit, thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The funding levels, detailed by FTA in apportionment tables for each of 30 programs for Fiscal Year 2022, will provide 58% more funding, enabling transit agencies to modernize … Continued
Significant changes have been made to the Metro Public Safety Program over the last two years, and now Metro Transit Public Safety has a new tool to demonstrating significant coverage of the system each month by the public safety team. The Metro Transit Public Safety team detailed the ‘tag up’ program at a CMT Metro … Continued
Citizens for Modern Transit (“CMT”) is seeking a graphic design consultant to assist CMT with the refresh of the Guaranteed Ride Home Program to promote ridership on the transit system. The goal will be to increase ridership on the system through this incentive/benefit program. Click here for the full RFP.
St. Clair County Transit District (SCCTD) today announced it has approved $355,051 to be used toward engineering for Phase I of the Fairview Heights – Swansea Trail. This proposed 1.7-mile bike and pedestrian pathway will extend from the traffic signal at the intersection of Illinois Route 161 and Sullivan Drive in Belleville to Frank Scott … Continued
Design Lab 443 was selected for the 2022 Passport to Music on Metro campaign. Design Lab 443 was selected from a pool of four proposals – evaluated based on the following established criteria: Qualifications of person/firm conducting the work Proposal Quality Product samples – samples provided and/or on firm website need to be relevant to … Continued
Citizens for Modern Transit (CMT) and AARP in St. Louis are now focusing on the North Hanley Transit Center which will be the location of its next transformation project in partnership with Bi-State Development/Metro Transit. CMT is now seeking a team to be responsible for planning, coordinating, and implementing the N. Hanley Transit program vision … Continued
Citizens for Modern Transit (CMT) is undertaking a two-year education campaign, which will include the launch of new programming, partnership collaboration, and rider/community engagement. CMT is seeking a firm to assist with these efforts in planning, executing, and promoting these events and messaging items. The programs will include Social Media marketing; email outreach; promotional events; … Continued
Metro Transit will receive a $4.1 million grant award from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to help expand the electric bus program it launched in June 2021. The funds will be put toward improvements that include new charging infrastructure at a new location and the purchase of several new electric buses to replace diesel buses … Continued
The expanded program will provide thousands of city youth free public transportation through MetroLink and MetroBus through the rest of 2022. The City of St. Louis, joined by Metro Transit, announced the expansion of the Gateway Go Youth Transit Program, funded through $250,000 of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) dollars. The expanded program will provide … Continued
President Joe Biden signed into law a fiscal year (FY) 2022 spending bill on March 11. After nearly five months of negotiations, House and Senate leaders released the final bill text on March 9 for an FY22 spending bill that would provide roughly $1.5 trillion in federal spending for the new fiscal year. The Omnibus package includes … Continued
On the heels of the launch of the “Transit Stop Transformation” Project at the Belleville Transit Center in Illinois, Citizens for Modern Transit (CMT) and AARP in St. Louis today announced that the North Hanley Transit Center will be the location of its next transformation project in partnership with Bi-State Development/Metro Transit. Team Better Block … Continued
Citizens for Modern Transit (“CMT”) in partnership with the St. Clair County Transit District is seeking a consultant to assist in the creation of a comprehensive marketing campaign on the SCCTD Passport to Music on Metro event on June 25 in St. Clair County, IL to build and promote ridership on the transit system. Key … Continued
The Missouri House on Wednesday approved House Bill 1462 (HB1462), sponsored by Rep. Adam Schnelting, that would legalize carrying concealed firearms on public transportation, buses and in places of worship. The bill passed the chamber 101-40, also lowers the minimum age to obtain a concealed carry weapon license from 19 to 18 and criminalizes unlawfully firing … Continued