Metro ridership's drop has been concentrated in the suburban park-and-ride stations. Shrewsbury has 800+ parking spaces and in its hay day was 90%+ full everyday, but these days gets 150-200 cars per day, and all the other p+r are like that. This is why I think it's so necessary for Metro to develop parts of these parking lots since they are only being partially used anymore.addxb2 wrote: ↑Apr 25, 2025I wrote my masters thesis at Saint Louis University on the node-place theory of St. Louis’s MetroLink system. I’m more knowledgeable on what it takes to run and pay for MetroLink and the public transit industry than most anyone on the forum.JaneJacobsGhost wrote:It was a silly question. This board is overrun by people who don’t know anything about St Louis
I don’t live in St. Louis but did when the street view screenshot was taken. I know that MetroLink ridership is still down and wanted to inquire.
Now, that also means the core stations also see reduced ridership, of course, but they also had riders who used it in place of a car or because they're students or something like that. Most of those riders have been retained, if not grown over the same period.
So CWE definitely sees fewer riders, but rush times do still fill the platform up in a good feeling way.
