“Help Plan a New MetroLink Station” Meeting Highlights Need for Connections to Transit

The “Help Plan a MetroLink Station” event held at the CORTEX I building, just one block from the proposed new station at Boyle Avenue spent little time on the station itself. This may be obvious, but it is also the overriding point to be made; transit stations exist to serve a community, and connections to people and places determine transit success.

The station itself is not a sure thing, but with CORTEX, the Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Hospital medical campus, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Missouri Botanical Garden, and others supporting its study, and presumably providing partial funding, it is likely. The key to breaking ground is justifying the new station based on the predicted net increase in ridership. Metro wants to know the station will be used before committing to add it to the system, changing existing line schedules and committing the agency to maintenance and security.