Memorial Hospital station is a light rail station on the Red Line of the St. Louis MetroLink system.[5] This below-grade station is located beneath an overpass on Frank Scott Parkway in Belleville, Illinois and has 431 park and ride spaces across three parking lots.
Memorial Hospital | |||||||||||
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| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | 1460 Frank Scott Parkway Belleville, Illinois | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 38°33′27″N 90°00′57″W / 38.557600°N 90.015728°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Bi-State Development | ||||||||||
| Operated by | Metro Transit | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Bus stands | 3[1] | ||||||||||
| Connections |  MetroBus Illinois: 14[2] | ||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||
| Structure type | Below-grade | ||||||||||
| Parking | 431 spaces[3] | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Racks, MetroBikeLink Trail | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | May 5, 2001[4] | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| 2018 | 304 daily | ||||||||||
| Rank | 37 out of 38 | ||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||
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Memorial Hospital has a connection to the St. Clair County Transit District's 14-mile (23 km) MetroBikeLink shared-use path system.[6]
Station layout edit
The island platform is accessed via a single ramp that connects to the MetroBikeLink trail and ramps to Frank Scott Parkway.
| Street | Entrance/exit, bus bays, park and ride |
| Westbound | ← Red Line toward Lambert Airport (Fairview Heights) |
| Island platform, doors will open on the left | |
| Eastbound | Red Line toward Shiloh–Scott (Swansea) → |
Notable places nearby edit
References edit
- ^ "Bus Bays" (PDF). Metro Transit. January 2021. p. 17. Retrieved May 23, 2023.
- ^ "Illinois System Map" (Map). Metro Transit. April 2019. Retrieved May 23, 2023.
- ^ "System Addresses". Metro Transit. Retrieved May 23, 2023.
- ^ Leiser, Ken (April 30, 2001). "MetroLink Extension Opens This Weekend With Parking to Spare". The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. p. A9. Retrieved April 15, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Memorial Hospital Station". metrostlouis.org. Retrieved 2022-10-15.
- ^ Cella, Kim (May 16, 2022). "SCCTD Encourages Use of the MetroBikeLink System During National Bike to Work Week". Citizens For Modern Transit. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
