INFRASTRUCTURE REHABILITATION AND TECHNOLOGY SHARING IN BRINGING LRT TO ST. LOUIS

Metropolitan St. Louis, after 19 years of planning, is developing a dual-mode, cost-effective public transportation system integrating light rail technology with a vastly improved regional bus network. The light rail transit component, known as Metro Link, is an 18-mi continuous fixed-guideway rail line connecting the St. Louis, Missouri, central business district with the Lambert International Airport and McDonnell-Douglas complex to the northwest and with East St. Louis, Illinois, to the east across the Mississippi River. Complementing Metro Link are shuttle bus operations to major employment centers, and realigned routes that form an extensive feeder bus network in the corridor. The initial rail line will directly connect the principal retail, office, recreational, educational, medical, and transportation activity centers with the densest urban population areas. Existing infrastructure is being used, including right-of-way, structures, and facilities to be acquired from two railroads. Nearly all the railroad property is abandoned, but will be revived for this light rail system. Additionally, street and highway right-of-way and other public lands will be made availavle for permanent Metro Link easements. The capital expense budget for building Metro Link is $287.7 million, covering design and engineering, construction and procurement, testing and start-up, and project management. As a federally funded project, this capital expense is matched with railroad property and facilities acquired separately by the City of St. Louis and donated to the project with a value in excess of $100 million.

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  • This paper appears in Transportation Research Board Special Report No. 221, Light Rail Transit: New System Successes at Affordable Prices - Papers presented at the National Conference on Light Rail Transit, May 8-11, 1988, San Jose, California, Conducted by the Transportation Research Board. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved
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• Authors:
  • Campion, Douglas R
  • Wischmeyer Jr, Oliver W
• Conference:
  • National Conference on Light Rail Transit
  • Location: San Jose California, United States
  • Date: 1988-5-8 to 1988-5-11
• Publication Date: 1989

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 201-224
• Monograph Title: LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT: NEW SYSTEM SUCCESSES AT AFFORDABLE PRICES
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Special Report
  • Issue Number: 221
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0360-859X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Costs; Driver rehabilitation; Easements; Facilities; Federal aid; Feeder buses; Infrastructure; Light rail transit; Property acquisition; Right of way (Land); Shuttle buses; Technology transfer
• Uncontrolled Terms: Acquisition; Rehabilitation
• Geographic Terms: Saint Louis (Missouri)
• Old TRIS Terms: Technology sharing
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00483666
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0-309-04713-7
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: May 31 1990 12:00AM