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Streetcars in St. Louis, Missouri, operated as part of the transportation network of St. Louis from the middle of the 19th century through the early 1960s. During the first forty years of the streetcar in the city, a variety of private companies operated several dozen lines. In 1898, the City of St. Louis passed a Central Traction Bill that ...
Greater St. Louis, Missouri–Illinois, U.S. Transit type: Light rail Streetcar Bus Paratransit: Number of lines: 2 light rail lines 1 streetcar line 59 bus routes: Number of stations: 38 (light rail) 10 (streetcar) 9,000 (bus) 25 (transit centers) 26 (park and ride lots) Daily ridership: 59,800 (weekdays, Q4 2023) Annual ridership: 19,528,200 ...
The history of St. Louis, Missouri, from 1905 to 1980 saw declines in population and economic basis, particularly after World War II. Although St. Louis made civic improvements in the 1920s and enacted pollution controls in the 1930s, suburban growth accelerated and the city population fell dramatically from the 1950s to the 1980s.
United States 1803–present. The area that would become St. Louis was a center of the Native American Mississippian culture, which built numerous temple and residential earthwork mounds on both sides of the Mississippi River. Their major regional center was at Cahokia Mounds, active from 900 to 1500.
MetroLink ( reporting mark BSDA) is a light rail system that serves the Greater St. Louis area. Operated by Metro Transit in a shared fare system with MetroBus, [7] the two-line, 38-station system runs from St. Louis Lambert International Airport and Shrewsbury in Missouri to Scott Air Force Base in Illinois.
This service originated with the Bell System, and was first used in St. Louis, Missouri, United States on June 17, 1946. The original equipment weighed 80 pounds (36 kg), and there were initially only 3 channels for all the users in the metropolitan area, later more licenses were added bringing the total to 32 channels across 3 bands (see IMTS ...
The Bi-State Development Agency was established as an interstate compact between Missouri and Illinois in 1949. This compact created an organization that has broad powers in seven county-level jurisdictions (St. Louis City, St. Louis, St. Charles and Jefferson counties in Missouri and St. Clair, Madison and Monroe counties in Illinois). [1]
The Bell Telephone Building, located at 920 Olive Street in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, was built in 1889 for the purposes of housing the switchboard and local headquarters of the Bell Telephone Company.
John Paxton published St. Louis' first directory in 1821. It contained the names, occupations, and addresses of heads of household. While this excluded most females, widows were listed by their married names without an occupation. In some instances, females who were presumably heads of household had their names, occupations, and addresses listed.
The history of St. Louis, Missouri, from 1866 to 1904 was marked by rapid growth. Its population increased, making it the country's fourth-largest city after New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago. [1] It also saw rapid development of heavy industry, infrastructure, and transportation.