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Shrewsbury-Lansdowne I-44 (St. Louis Metrolink)
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The Shrewsbury–Lansdowne I-44 St. Louis MetroLink
station is located on Lansdowne Ave at River Des Peres
Boulevard in Shrewsbury
and St. Louis, Missouri, near Interstate 44
. The city limits line between the two communities runs through the station and parking facilities. It opened August 26, 2006 along with the rest of the Cross-County Extension.
There are 800 free surface commuter parking
spaces available at this station.
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St. Louis Metrolink
MetroLink is the light rail transit system in the Greater St. Louis area of Missouri and the Metro East area of Illinois. The entire system currently consists of two lines connecting Lambert-St. Louis International Airport and Shrewsbury, MO with Scott Air Force Base near Shiloh, Illinois through...
station is located on Lansdowne Ave at River Des Peres
River des Peres
The River des Peres is a metropolitan river in St. Louis, Missouri. It is the backbone of sanitary and stormwater systems in the city of St. Louis and portions of St. Louis County...
Boulevard in Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury, Missouri
Shrewsbury is an inner-ring suburb of St. Louis, located in St. Louis County, Missouri. The population was 6,254 at the 2010 census.The city is home to the broadcast towers of KSDK- and KDNL-TV.-Geography:Shrewsbury is located at ....
and St. Louis, Missouri, near Interstate 44
Interstate 44
Interstate 44 is a major highway in the central United States. Its western terminus is in Wichita Falls, Texas at a concurrency with US 277, US 281 and US 287; its eastern terminus is at the Illinois state line on the Poplar Street Bridge over the Mississippi River in St...
. The city limits line between the two communities runs through the station and parking facilities. It opened August 26, 2006 along with the rest of the Cross-County Extension.
There are 800 free surface commuter parking
Park and ride
Park and ride facilities are car parks with connections to public transport that allow commuters and other people wishing to travel into city centres to leave their vehicles and transfer to a bus, rail system , or carpool for the rest of their trip...
spaces available at this station.
Local Buses
- 11 Chippewa
- 16 City Limits
- 17 Oakville
- 21 Watson Rd
- 30 Soulard
- 46 Tesson Ferry
- 56 Kirkwood-Webster
Future extensions
The platform at this station is designed to accommodate a future extension of the line, either via the River des Peres to the southeast or more southerly toward South County Center http://www.ewgateway.org/metrolink/metrolink.htm; however, current studies are focusing on routes within the city of St. Louis that would not connect to this station.http://www.northsouthstudy.org/index.htm The project is called the MetroSouth CorridorMetroSouth Corridor
The MetroSouth Corridor is a proposed light rail alignment for the St. Louis MetroLink light rail system in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The proposed alignment would extend the Blue Line southwards from its current terminus at Shrewsbury-Lansdowne I-44 to as far as Butler Hill Rd.-History:Planning for...
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