Christopher,

Regarding NGA and Northside-Southside, please see the below response:

The City of St. Louis has expressed a desire to explore options for constructing a Northside-Southside MetroLink expansion in the vicinity of the planned NGA facility in North City. The process for pursuing this option is to conduct planning, environmental, and design work to determine the precise design, cost and impacts of this project. The City of St. Louis, East-West Gateway Council of Governments, and Metro are collaborating on this endeavor. Before this project could move forward, the region would have to produce sufficient financial resources to support about half of construction costs, and all of the cost to operate the new service. Federal funding would be required to complete the balance of financial needs, and that is a competitive process. The planning and design work I mentioned previously is a first step in that funding process.