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Update: Modified MetroLink Service to Continue Until Further Notice
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We understand how challenging the past month has been with modified MetroLink service, and we truly appreciate your patience during this time.
Unfortunately, the current adjustments to MetroLink service will need to remain in effect until further notice. While we had hoped to return to normal MetroLink operations soon, the situation has proven more complex than initially anticipated.
Click here for information on why Blue Line service is currently limited.
The safety of our passengers and staff remains our top priority. Heavy precipitation last month, followed by cycles of freezing, thawing, and refreezing, has caused significant ground instability in a small area near the MetroLink tracks in St. Clair County, Illinois. This has led to a gradual shift in the ground beneath the westbound track, making it unsafe for trains to operate on that section at this time.
We want to assure you that our team has been and continues to closely monitor the situation using remote electronic sensors and on-site inspections. Once the shifting stops, our Operations and Engineering teams will evaluate the conditions and determine a safe timeframe for resuming normal MetroLink service.
However, we cannot estimate how long this process will take. Until further notice, Blue Line MetroLink trains will continue to only operate between the Shrewsbury I-44 and Forest Park-DeBaliviere Stations.
We know these changes have disrupted your daily routines, and caused frustrating delays and hardship. Please know we sincerely regret the inconvenience, and your continued patience and understanding mean so much as we work to address these challenges and prioritize everyone’s safety.
If you have any questions or need further assistance navigating the modified MetroLink service, please contact our Transit Information team at 314.231.2345 (phone) or 314.207.9786 (text).
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SHAME on MetroLink management and the beanpushers apparently decreeing draconian reductions in service. Those who rely on metro lift rail for transportation and those of us who care enough about the planet to utilize mass transit despite the continued uncaring procedures that require standing in brutal weather conditions at an infernally exposed station is unconscionable and everyone involved in this poor decision making deserves to roast in a special place. There are numerous places to transit Blue Line trains. You pick First Park to show the most contempt to we customers. SHAME! SHAME!! SHAME!!!
If the westbound track between JJK and Fairview is flawed why aren’t you doing something to fix it?!?
Or is this the same strategy as post-flood where you simply do nothing for 18 months and then reopen after you have let drivers and security find other jobs?!?
This is pretty infuriating. You’ve had a month to fix the tracks and the ground. At least run blue line through missouri.
It seems the limited Metrolink operation is due to a section of unstable track caused by freeze thaw cycles. The St. Louis region will, presumably, continue to experience intermittently freezing temperatures for years into the future. Is there some kind of engineering plan to make this segment of track robust against future weather?
Where are the Metro security officers? It’s like they disappeared into thin air. As a result people are smoking and blasting loud music more than ever. Also it is not safe to have these trains so full that people can’t move. It’s standing room only and even then you’re lucky to find a bar to hold onto.
Unacceptable! Come with a solution to put more trains on the track. Show us the data of the ground instability. Do better.
Can we at least get more service on Blue Line. It’s horribly inconvenient
Please add more red line trains into service to replace the blue line ones. It’s genuinely pathetic we have to cram ourselves into overcrowded trains because of the service cuts. Does nobody on Metrolink management ride the trains and see what’s going on??
Why can’t the blue line run to the end of Missouri?
St Louis metro train station looks like a prison I’ll never ride that bs again 🤣🤣🤣
Why don’t you try fixing the ground?
I suggest running eastbound Blue line trains all the way to Stadium station, and then have them proceed westbound. Eastbound Blue Line trains can use switches near Tucker to cross over to the westbound track, and deliver passengers to the westbound platform of Stadium station. Westbound Red Line trains could have a short pause at the 8th & Pine station when necessary to effectively share track.