Forest Park – DeBaliviere (St. Louis MetroLink)

Forest Park-DeBaliviere
Station statistics
Address 250 DeBaliviere Ave
St. Louis, Missouri 63112
Lines
  Red Line
  Blue Line
Platforms Island platforms
Parking 100 park and ride spaces
Other information
Opened July 31, 1993
Accessible
Owned by Bi-State Development Agency dba Metro
Traffic
Passengers (FY2007) 5,438 daily  0%
Services
Preceding station   St. Louis MetroLink   Following station
Red Line
Blue Line

Forest Park-DeBaliviere is a St. Louis MetroLink subway station, located at the northeast corner of Forest Park Parkway and DeBaliviere Avenue in St. Louis. This station is located just to the north of Forest Park. Attractions in the park include the St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Zoo, Missouri History Museum and The Muny in addition to athletic fields, biking and running trails, and golf courses. The station is the transfer point for trips between the Shrewsbury branch and the Lambert Airport branch. It also features 100 Park-Ride spaces.[1]

The Forest Park-DeBaliviere station opened on July 31, 1993 as one of the original stations in the MetroLink system. It was originally constructed with side platforms and a single entrance serving the westbound platform. Access to the eastbound platform required walking the length of the westbound platform and crossing the tracks at the end. As part of the Cross-County extension of MetroLink from Forest Park-DeBaliviere to Shrewsbury-Lansdowne I-44, the station was reconstructed with an island platform to allow easy cross platform transfers between the Blue and Red lines and two station entrances, one on either side of DeBaliviere Avenue.[2]

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References

  1. ^ "MetroLink Station List". Metro. http://www.metrostlouis.org/MetroLink/stationlist.asp. Retrieved 2008-08-14. 
  2. ^ "Cross County MetroLink Extension - Final Project Status Report" (PDF). Metro. December 2006. pp. 23. http://www.crosscountymetro.org/news/2006/PSR_12_06v71FINAL.pdf. Retrieved 2008-08-14. 

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