Metro

Pretty good for St. Louis. It’s clean and goes to useful places.
My beef is at the station by the ballpark. After the game, I had no idea what direction the trains were going or which one was the right one to get on. Luckily my Mom told me ahead of time to remember to take the blue one.
In Chicago, there are BIG signs telling you where you are going or what stop you are at. The signs were ok at the stops, but I thought they could be bigger and easier to read.
There’s some room for improvement in other areas as well. Like better signs from the roads pointing to the garages and that whole ticket thing seems like way too much work.
Maybe I’m spoiled living in Chicagoland!

As far as mass transit in mid-​sized Midwestern cities goes (which isn’t very far), St. Louis’s Metro system is alright. The buses are pretty regular and go all over the place. The MetroLink could definitely be more far-​reaching, but they made a big big step with the Cross County Extension, which snakes south through the inner belt County suburbs to Shrewsbury. Having that new MetroLink station less than a mile from home made it MUCH easier to get around when I was car-​free and carefree for a couple months.
And dude. The people you meet on the bus (especially in the City) will make you laaaaugh sometimes, but other times realizing that most of them are stuck with the hassles of mass transit for their entire lives can seriously bring you down. I feel like I learned a lot in my time on the bus.
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So anyway, use it.

Relatively clean. Not too expensive. The system of having a ticket you need to show randomly is a little archaic though. The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) of the San Francisco Bay Area has tickets you buy from a machine that you need to slip through another machine to allow you to pass to and from the train.