The Bi-State Development Agency received roughly $7.4 million for efforts to expand the city’s MetroLink train system.
“About $7.4 million in federal pandemic aid allotted to the Bi-State Development Agency will pay for the next round of planning for a potential expansion of MetroLink” in St. Louis, according to an article by Mark Schlinkmann in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “Taulby Roach, the agency’s CEO, said the next phase would include seeking public opinion on the possible stations along the revised route for the line, which would run along Jefferson Avenue from Chippewa Street to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency headquarters.”
The estimated cost for the project is $850 million. “Information developed in the next phase of planning will be used to base an application to the federal government for 60% of the project cost,” Schlinkmann writes. “Meanwhile, St. Louis County and AECOM are researching a potential extension of the city’s northside-southside line into North County. Four alternative routes were announced last month.”
FULL STORY: Federal pandemic aid to pay for next round of planning for MetroLink expansion
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