Emerson Park | ||||||||||||||||
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| Location | 929 North 15th Street East St. Louis, Illinois | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 38°37′44″N 90°08′13″W / 38.628781°N 90.136856°W | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Bi-State Development | |||||||||||||||
| Operated by | Metro Transit | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Bus stands | 10[1] | |||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | At-grade | |||||||||||||||
| Parking | 841 spaces[4] | |||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Rack | |||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opened | May 5, 2001[5] | |||||||||||||||
| Passengers | ||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | 1,094 daily | |||||||||||||||
| Rank | 15 out of 38 | |||||||||||||||
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Emerson Park station is a light rail station on the Red and Blue lines of the St. Louis MetroLink system.[6] This at-grade station is located near 15th Street and Bowman Avenue in East St. Louis, Illinois. It also serves as a transfer for MetroBus and Madison County Transit and features 841 park and ride spaces.
There is a pedestrian bridge across nearby Interstate 64 that connects this station to other parts of East St. Louis.
- ^ "Bus Bays" (PDF). Metro Transit. January 2021. p. 12. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
- ^ "Illinois System Map" (Map). Metro Transit. April 2019. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
- ^ "System Map" (PDF) (Map). Madison County Transit. August 15, 2021. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
- ^ "System Addresses". Metro Transit. Retrieved May 24, 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.
- ^ "Emerson Park Station". metrostlouis.org. Retrieved October 11, 2022.
