Civic Center station is a light rail station on the Red and Blue lines of the St. Louis MetroLink system.[5] This below-grade station is located near 14th and Spruce streets near Interstate 64. It is also the primary transfer station for MetroBus and serves bus routes operated by Madison County Transit. Additionally, the station adjoins the Gateway Multimodal Transportation Center which has intercity services provided by Amtrak, Greyhound, and others.
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
Several Madison County Transit bus routes stop here, providing service between downtown St. Louis and its suburbs in Madison County, Illinois.[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]
Notable places nearby
- Campbell House Museum
- Central Library
- Enterprise Center, home of the St. Louis Blues
- Gateway Mall
- Soliders Memorial
- Stifel Theatre
- St. Louis City Hall
References
- ^ "Bus Bays" (PDF). Metro Transit. January 2021. p. 7. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
- ^ "Missouri System Map" (PDF) (Map). Metro Transit. November 2019. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
- ^ "System Map" (PDF) (Map). Madison County Transit. August 15, 2021. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Civic Center Station". metrostlouis.org. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
- ^ Hibbard, Matthew (July 18, 2017). "Special Events Planned Ahead of Civic Center Transit Center Reopening". metrostlouis.org. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
- ^ "MetroBus Schedule". metrostlouis.org. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
- ^ "Bus Schedules – Madison County Transit". Retrieved September 27, 2022.
- ^ "Wheels". Arts in Transit, Inc. Retrieved October 3, 2022.