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This is your platform to interact directly with Metro Transit teams, hear about the latest updates, and influence the decisions that shape your daily commute. Together, we’ll explore the latest news, upcoming changes, and strategies for a sustainable, efficient, and user‑focused transit system. Be an active part of the conversation; be a driver of our transit’s future.

Community Connect Events: February 2025

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Future meetings are being planned for the weeks of:

May 5, 2025August 4, 2025November 3, 2025

Confirmed meeting dates will be published and promoted at least eight (8) weeks prior to the first quarterly event. Dates may change slightly based upon the availability of open house locations.

To request an accommodation such as an ASL interpreter, please contact Amy Parker, ADA Services, at 314-982-1525, three days prior to the meeting, or as soon as is practical.

Engagement Events Calendar

December

  • 3 – Green Line Neighborhood Design Workshop @ Polish Heritage Center (5-7pm)
  • 4 – Green Line Neighborhood Design Workshop @ German Cultural Society (5-7pm)
  • 6 – CMT ‘Oh What Fun it is to Ride’ morning holiday engagement @ North Hanley, CWE, Shrewsbury, Emerson Park, Fairview Heights (7-8:30am)
  • 6 – CMT ‘Oh What Fun it is to Ride’ evening holiday engagement @ Emerson Park (3:30-5pm)
  • 7 – Green Line Neighborhood Design Workshop @ Phyllis Wheatley Center (10-noon)
  • 7 – Mayor Jones’ Town Hall Meeting (10:30am) @ O’Fallon Park YMCA  *Chuck Stewart GL
  • 7 – BSD Holiday Extravaganza @ Main Shop (9-noon)
  • 10 – Santa on the System – Red Line Civic Center to Hanley  (3-5pm)
  • 11 – Celia’s Yuletide Express on the system – Red Line 5th & MO to Shiloh-Scott (3-5pm)
  • 16 – 8th & Pine Customer Appreciation (6:30-9:30am)
  • 18 – International Institute Multi-Lingual Transit Training
  • 19 – Frank’s Creation Jazz Beats @ Civic Center (4-6pm)
  • 19 – SPP Engagement @ Delmar & Cortex (6-9am / 3-6pm)
  • 20 – SPP Engagement @ Delmar & Cortex
  • 21 – Santa at NCTC (11am-1pm)
  • 12–25 – Gift of Transit PASS IT ON seat drops/on system promotions

January

  • 6 – SPP Engagement @ Delmar & Cortex
  • 25 – Delmar Loop Ice Carnival

February

  • 3 – Community Connect @ Chesterfield City Hall (3-5pm)
  • 5 – Community Connect @ SLACO (noon-2pm)
  • 6 – Community Connect @ ESTL City Hall (3:30-5:30pm)
  • 7 – Community Connect VIRTUAL Open House

March

  • 11 – TEAM Conference Tour of SPP/RTCC/Main Shop/Brentwood

Metro in the Community

Photo of campers learning about switches and track geometry

School Field Trips and Group Rides

Looking for a fresh and fun field trip idea? Ride Metro as part of your trip!

Metro is excited to offer the Metro Student Field Trip Program to St. Louis metro area schools, grades 1–12. The program provides students, faculty and chaperones access to the MetroBus and/or MetroLink system. Bring your students on an educational adventure, while teaching them important transit skills that they will carry with them for a lifetime.

Organized group trips are also available for university students and employee groups, and as well as other adult groups who want to make transit a part of their next activity.

Dream Big campers and staff from Starkloff Disability Institute posing outside a MetroLink train

Facility Tours

Why not bring your group to a MetroBus garage or MetroLink train yard for your next activity?

A Metro facility tour provides a fascinating look into the engineering, mechanical and operating principles of public transportation, and gives a behind-the-scenes look at how our teams keep the region moving.

Metro offers free tours of our MetroLink facility in midtown St. Louis as well as three MetroBus facilities across the Metro area.

A speaker at a podium gestures at a large projection screen showing the MetroLink system map during a presentation to a group

Presentations

Public transit is an integral part of the region’s transportation infrastructure and it plays a vital role within the region. Metro Transit is committed to ensuring that individuals have all of the information they need about their public transit system and the transportation options available through to everyone.

Metro transit leaders and team members provide educational presentations and information on a variety of transit-related topics. The presentations can be geared to fit your group’s specific needs and interests.

Man posing playfully with a "RIDE ON" photo prop of a MetroBus windshield as if he were the bus operator.

Event Participation and Sponsorships

Metro supports the St. Louis community at events both large and small. If you are planning an upcoming community event or festival, consider requesting the presence of a Metro representative to staff a table or booth.

While at your event, Metro provides transit information, maps, schedules, trip planning and promotional giveaways, and, when available, cooling or warming buses. Advanced notice and coordination with your event coordinator is required for Metro’s participation.

More Information

Email mjfernandes@bistatedev.org or fill out the form below for more information about connecting with Metro in the community.

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