Civic Center | ||||||||||||||||
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![]() Civic Center station platform | ||||||||||||||||
General information | ||||||||||||||||
Location | 1413 Spruce Street St. Louis, Missouri | |||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 38°37′30″N90°12′11″W / 38.624925°N 90.203170°W | |||||||||||||||
Owned by | Bi-State Development Agency | |||||||||||||||
Operated by | Metro Transit | |||||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 island platform | |||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
Bus stands | 17 [1] | |||||||||||||||
Connections |
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Construction | ||||||||||||||||
Structure type | Below-grade | |||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | Racks | |||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||
History | ||||||||||||||||
Opened | July 31, 1993 [2] | |||||||||||||||
Rebuilt | 2017 | |||||||||||||||
Passengers | ||||||||||||||||
2018 | 2,217 daily | |||||||||||||||
Rank | 5 out of 38 | |||||||||||||||
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Civic Center station is a light rail station on the Red and Blue lines of the St. Louis MetroLink system. [3] This below-grade station is located near 14th and Spruce streets near Interstate 64. It is the primary transfer station for MetroBus and serves regional bus routes operated by Madison County Transit. Additionally, the station adjoins the Gateway Transportation Center which has intercity services provided by Amtrak, Greyhound, and others.
On August 14, 2017, MetroBus service returned to the station after an extensive renovation of the bus station portion of Civic Center. It included multiple new bus bays, a security center, an indoor waiting area and public restrooms. [4]
Civic Center's platform is accessed via stairs and a ramp from the MetroBus transfer and another ramp from the Gateway Transportation Center.
Civic Center is a major MetroBus transfer and also serves several regional Madison County Transit routes at adjacent stops on Spruce Street. [3] [5]
In 2018, Metro's Arts in Transit program commissioned the work Wheels by Claudia Cuesta and Bill Baker for this station. The stainless steel work is a highly visible site marker that integrates the different forms of transportation at this station. Wheels minimal footprint and the inscribed poem from T. S. Eliot invites people to circle the sculpture as they read the poem, creating the fourth wheel. [6]