Civic Center
Civic Center station platform
General information
Location1413 Spruce Street
St. Louis, Missouri
Coordinates38°37′30″N 90°12′11″W / 38.624925°N 90.203170°W / 38.624925; -90.203170
Owned byBi-State Development Agency
Operated byMetro Transit
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Bus stands17[1]
Connections
Construction
Structure typeBelow-grade
Bicycle facilitiesRacks
AccessibleYes
History
OpenedJuly 31, 1993 (1993-07-31)[4]
Rebuilt2017
Passengers
20182,217 daily
Rank5 out of 38
Services
Preceding station MetroLink Following station
Union Station
toward Shrewsbury
 Blue Line Stadium
toward Fairview Heights
Union Station
toward Lambert Airport
 Red Line Stadium
toward Shiloh–Scott

Civic Center station is a train and bus station in the Downtown West neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri serving the Red and Blue lines of the St. Louis MetroLink.[5] It is also the primary transfer station for MetroBus and a bus terminal for Madison County Transit. The station is located near Enterprise Center, home of the St. Louis Blues, Soldiers Memorial, and the Saint Louis Public Library Central Library. The station also serves the adjoining Gateway Multimodal Transportation Center which has intercity services provided by Amtrak, Greyhound, and Megabus.

On August 14, 2017, MetroBus service returned to the station after an extensive renovation of the bus station portion of Civic Center. It included multiple new bus bays, a security center, an indoor waiting area and public restrooms.[6]

Station layout

Civic Center's platform is accessed via a set of stairs and a ramp from the MetroBus transfer and another ramp from Clark Avenue.

S Street level East entrance/exit, bus bays
P
Platform level		 Westbound ←      Blue Line toward Shrewsbury (Union Station)
←      Red Line toward Lambert Airport (Union Station)
Island platform, doors will open on the left
Eastbound      Red Line toward Shiloh–Scott (Stadium) →
     Blue Line toward Fairview Heights (Stadium) →
S Street level West entrance/exit, Gateway Transportation Center

Bus connections

MetroBus

Many MetroBus routes stop here:[7]

  • 4 Natural Bridge
  • 10 Gravois Lindell
  • 11 Chippewa
  • 19 St. Louis Avenue
  • 30 Arsenal
  • 31 Chouteau
  • 32 Martin Luther King
  • 40 North Broadway
  • 41 Lee
  • 73 Carondelet
  • 74 Florissant
  • 94 Page
  • 97 Delmar
  • 174X Halls Ferry Express

Madison County Transit

The center is also a terminal for several bus routes of the Madison County Transit System, which serves the Metro East area of St. Louis.[8]

  • 1X Riverbend Express
  • 5 Tri-City Regional
  • 14X Highland Express
  • 16X Edwardsville – Glen Carbon Express

Public artwork

In 2018, Metro's Arts in Transit program commissioned the work Wheels by Claudia Cuesta and Bill Baker for this station. The stainless steel work is a highly visible site marker that integrates the different forms of transportation at this station. Wheels minimal footprint and the inscribed poem from T. S. Eliot invites people to circle the sculpture as they read the poem, creating the fourth wheel.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Bus Bays" (PDF). Metro Transit. January 2021. p. 7. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Missouri System Map" (PDF) (Map). Metro Transit. November 2019. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
  3. ↑ "System Map" (PDF) (Map). Madison County Transit. August 15, 2021. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
  4. ↑ Lindecke, Fred W. (August 1, 1993). "Area Riders Throng to Try MetroLink". The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. pp. 1A, 6A. Retrieved April 15, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Free access icon
  5. ↑ "Civic Center Station". metrostlouis.org. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
  6. ↑ Hibbard, Matthew (July 18, 2017). "Special Events Planned Ahead of Civic Center Transit Center Reopening". metrostlouis.org. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
  7. ↑ "MetroBus Schedule". metrostlouis.org. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  8. ↑ "Bus Schedules – Madison County Transit". Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  9. ↑ "Wheels". Arts in Transit, Inc. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
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