Missing: Local Bus Service in Downtown St. Louis

{Transit riders connect to busses from MetroLink at the Civic Center Transit Center}

In a very short post on my Gateway Streets blog yesterday, I posed a very simple question. From just about anywhere in the St. Louis region, "will this bus take me to downtown St. Louis"? The answer, as I so emphatically illustrated below, is "NO!" For people unfamiliar with St. Louis's public transit system, that answer may seem confusing and incorrect. After all, a quick glance at the Metro system map shows many bus lines threading their way through downtown.