To everyone in general, I skratch my head on the lack of vision in regards to Metrolink but understand it is probably a cost thing and like all things St. Louis why build for the future when you just add onto the shanty in my cynical thought of one more thing that holds the region back. Maybe Bi-State wasn't approached or maybe the made it clear that they didn't want to be involved purely an easy non decision driven by city (has full control of airport) & county politics (both in Bi-State) to keep as is. So at end of day you keep this crappy D gate extension and old metrolink station when truly the only thing to keep intact of existing T1 is the domes themselves. In my opinion, everything except the domes should be demo including metrolink station.RockChalkSTL wrote: ↑May 15, 2024The airport is said to want to keep two MetroLink stations.
I do not know why they would want to keep that T2 station if not for something significant.
So my two part revision to the airport ingress/egress plan
First phase, realign and drop metrolink alignment into a tunnel underneath the road with a new single airport T1/consolidated underground station. The benefit is it allows for a future, additional westward expansion even if it never gets outside of the county. Keeping the T1 metrolink stub end station doesn't foresee a future only the past and when T2 eventually closes it doesn't make a whole of since to wait on and pay metrolink to get from the T2 parking garage to the new terminal as noted by a few of the comments.
Second phase, automated peopled mover. Like a few comments noted it is a much better option for within airport and near airport facilities. I think of SFO's automated people mover or the referenced to the new LAX version. Like SFO, you could plan around terminal (eliminates needs for Metrolink T2 on future single concourse plan), hotel(s), rental facility and long term parking. I think their is a hotel cluster around I-70 & Lingbergh. Start at Lindbergh (hotel & bus line) and cover long term, TI, cover old T2 and head east to new consolidated Rental Car facility. Break the automated into phases itself starting with getting people from T2 parking/rental cars to new T1 if rental car is on east side (2nd phase is west to long term & hotel/lindbergh Ave). Rental car on west side, start there to T1 and extend to T2 parking garage (2nd phase from rental car west to long term parking & hotel/Lindbergh Ave)
