Starting Monday, August 3, approximately one-third of the recently suspended Metro services will be restored for just over 10 months.
Restored services will include enhancements to existing routes so they are extended back into communities that lost service, restoration of some key routes that were cut, and the creation of new routes.
Metro’s Transit Restoration Plan will provide Metro Call-A-Ride paratransit access to many locations that lost service. The plan will also restore service to approximately 2,000 of the 2,300 bus stops to which service was suspended in March.
Added frequency will alleviate crowded conditions on the most heavily used routes. Some Express MetroBus service in North, South and West St. Louis County will also be restored.
Metro said it devised the restoration plan using transit data, population and employment trends and input from hundreds of customers.
The service restorations are made possible by an emergency infusion of $12 million from the Missouri Legislature and a grant from the federal Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality program that will provide Metro with $3.8 million annually for two years.
New route information has been added to Metro’s website at www.metrostlouis.org or the public may call (314) 231-2345 for more information.