Among the recommendations of a 1997 East-West Gateway study for the cross-county corridor in the city and county was a light-rail extension from Clayton to north of Interstate 270. An alignment along Interstate 170 also was considered along a utility corridor for an extension north of Interstate 270.

For this study, the county wants to focus only on the segment of the recommended extension north of the existing MetroLink red line in the county, including a Ferguson connector. This study should consider an alignment turning east in the Interstate 270 corridor to West Florissant Avenue and south in the West Florissant corridor, linking to a Northside-Southside MetroLink corridor in the city. The county wants the study to assess destination and alignment alternatives in that broader corridor, then identify a single alignment for a more detailed evaluation.

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East-West Gateway in 2005 did a study on this corridor, which extends south from the Shrewsbury-Lansdowne Interstate 44 MetroLink station. Multiple light rail alignments were evaluated, without one being singled out.

For this study, the county wants a fresh look taken at an “orange alignment” identified in the study, which would begin at the end of the MetroLink blue line, continuing west on River Des Peres/Germania to the Interstate 55 right-of-way, and extending south along Interstate 55 to Butler Hill Road.

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