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i have seen the final rendering. nothing very stimulating. it's was on an invitation to the ground breaking that is at my parents house. no i don't have a scanner. it appers as if there is a large glass wall that faces the metrolink stop. other then that, i have no idea what it looks like, how it fits on the site and context to the other surroundings. so basicaly i have nothing. only i've seen a crappy small rendering that shows nothing. but, but, at least it's finaly being built, 30 someodd years in the making. it took awhile.

The planning for the terminal began in 1978 when the last train pulled out of Union Station and a temporary Amtrak station was erected nearby. A proposal for a 22,000-square-foot Amtrak-Greyhound terminal, costing an estimated $26 million, was first unveiled in November 1997.

This is why St. Louis is no longer 4th, we take too long to act.

was there any mention to this at all in the post today? i can't find anytinh on thier web site. if they didn't even mention this in as little as a short paragraph, i would be stuned. or not really. but very dissapointed. not neccessarly shocked.

We, as a city, need to get the transport center finished ASAP. Not to be too negative, but St. Louis leadership must place zero importance on bus transport, that the leadership-class would never consider riding the bus.



The previous Greyhound station, downtown, before the dome, was nice. The Cass Bank outpost is a disgrace, likely the worst bus terminal for any city, large or small, in North America.



Took a girl there for an early morning departure. Hmmm what's it like? How welcoming is this arrival point to our city?



It's seemingly evicted from down-town; no windows; no gates (just use the old doors), inhabited by men sleeping, and groups of man walking about in clusters; a bank of loud and violent video games (one of the titles must have been, like, Stalk-and-Strangulation-Two); weed-trees and weeds growing out of the embankment; a vacant brick building across the street; no view; no one on duty at the desk; a worker at the coffee counter asleep with his mouth open; echos; no street parking; a gang of smokers crowding the front door; three angry men yelling and throwing clothes out of a car across a parking area, smashing their door open against my van; birds flying around inside the building, just like at the Chernobyl sarcophagus.



I saw that she got on her bus Okay; I'm sorry that I talked her out of Metrobus at Union Station.



What can we do to make this better in less than 27 or 10 years?

Yes. I know. The new project will be a good improvement; it has to be. I'm mostly venting . . . 27 years since Union Station closed, and 10 years since Greyhound closed the downtown center. Yes, I know that patience is a virtue.

Proof there is work actually going on here. There were no crews there at 8:00 this morning.