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Ewing Yard (also known as Jefferson Avenue Yard) is a rail yard for the MetroLink light rail system in St. Louis. One of Metro Transit's two major operation and maintenance facilities, the yard maintains Metro's fleet of SD-400 and SD-460 light rail vehicles.
Ewing yard was built on a former railroad storage and maintenance facility that serviced Union Station until its closure in 1978. [1] The current yard opened with the initial MetroLink alignment in 1993 and sits on land bounded by Jefferson Avenue to the west, Scott Avenue to the north, Ewing Avenue to the east and the Terminal Railroad right-of-way to the south.
Metro's other rail yard is 29th Street Yard in East St. Louis, Illinois.
MetroLink is a light rail system operated by Metro Transit that serves the Greater St. Louis area in a shared fare system with MetroBus. The system consists of two rail lines connecting St. Louis Lambert International Airport and Shrewsbury in Missouri with Fairview Heights and Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. Intermediate destinations include downtown Clayton, Forest Park and downtown St. Louis. The system features 38 stations and is the only light rail system in the United States to cross state lines. In 2022, MetroLink had a ridership of 6,702,600, or about per weekday as of the second quarter of 2023. As of the third quarter of 2020, it is second only to Minneapolis Metro Transit in the Midwestern United States in terms of light rail ridership, and is the 11th-largest light rail system in the country.
Metro Transit is an enterprise of the Bi-State Development Agency and operates public transportation services in the St. Louis region. In 2022, the system served 19,049,100 passengers.
Transportation in Greater St. Louis, Missouri includes road, rail, ship, and air transportation modes connecting the bi-state St. Louis metropolitan area with surrounding communities throughout the Midwest, national transportation networks, and international locations. The Greater St. Louis region also supports a multi-modal transportation network that includes bus, paratransit, and light rail service in addition to shared-use paths, bike lanes and greenways.
Transportation in the U.S. State of Minnesota consists of a complex network of roadways, railways, waterways and airports. The transportation system is generally overseen by the Minnesota Department of Transportation, a cabinet-level agency of the state government. Additionally, regional governments such as the Metropolitan Council have authority over regional planning for the transportation system and local governments such as cities and counties oversee the local transportation network.
Valley Metro Rail is a 28.2-mile (45 km) light rail line serving the cities of Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa in Arizona, USA. The network, which is part of the Valley Metro public transit system, began operations on December 27, 2008. In 2022, the system had a ridership of 9,108,600, or about 31,400 per weekday as of the second quarter of 2023.
Target Field Station is a multimodal commuter train and light rail station in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Located in the North Loop area of Downtown Minneapolis, the station is named for Target Field, the Minnesota Twins baseball stadium. METRO Blue Line light rail service started November 14, 2009; Northstar Line commuter rail service started November 16, 2009; METRO Green Line light rail service started on June 14, 2014.
The East Link Extension, also known as the 2 Line, is a future light rail line serving the Eastside region of the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington. It will be part of Sound Transit's Link light rail system, running 18 miles (29 km) from west to east and serving 12 stations in Downtown Seattle, Mercer Island, Bellevue, and Redmond. The first section of the 2 Line, between South Bellevue and Redmond Technology stations, is scheduled to open in 2024. It is planned to be followed in 2025 by an extension east to Downtown Redmond and west to Seattle, where it will continue into the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel and share stations with the 1 Line through to Lynnwood City Center station.
The Red Line is the older and longer line of the MetroLink light rail service in Greater St. Louis. It serves 29 stations across three counties and two states.
The Loop Trolley is a 2.2-mile (3.5 km), 10-station heritage streetcar line in and near the Delmar Loop area of greater St. Louis, Missouri. It opened for service in 2018, then shut down in 2019 after revenue fell far short of projections. Service resumed in 2022 under the Metro Transit division of the Bi-State Development Agency.
MetroBus is a public bus service operated by Metro Transit that serves the Greater St. Louis area in a shared fare system with the MetroLink light rail service. In 2022, the system had an annual ridership of 11,987,600, or about 39,600 per weekday as of the second quarter of 2023.
The Bi-State Development Agency was established as an interstate compact between Missouri and Illinois in 1949. This compact created an organization that has broad powers in seven county-level jurisdictions. Bi-State operates five enterprises including the Gateway Arch Riverfront, Metro Transit, the St. Louis Downtown Airport, the St. Louis Regional Freightway and the Bi-State Development Research Institute.
The St. Louis Freight Tunnel is a historic railroad tunnel beneath Washington Avenue and Eighth Street in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. Completed in 1874, it carried freight and passenger trains between the Eads Bridge and the rail yards in the Mill Creek Valley, bypassing busy downtown streets. Today it is used by MetroLink, the light rail transit system in Greater St. Louis.