States for Passenger Rail Coaltion


The States for Passenger Rail Coalition is an alliance of State and Regional Transportation Officials who work together to promote the development and growth of Intercity Passenger Rail as part of an integrated national transportation network.

MIssouri

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High-Speed Passenger Rail in Missouri

Missouri has received approximately $75 million in federal funding for high-speed rail projects to address capital improvements that will increase safety, efficiency and capacity, and upgrade equipment on the St. Louis to Kansas City rail corridor.

program outcomes

  • Improved on-time performance and reliability for the existing Missouri River Runner route
  • Planning for increased speed, over time, up to 90 miles per hour in suitable sections of the corridor
  • Increase ridership
  • Expand and improve passenger rail system in the Midwest Region

Types of Improvements

  • New, second rail bridge to eliminate bottlenecks on shared track
  • Infrastructure improvement projects in urban areas to ease congestion
  • Rail crossing safety improvements
  • Preliminary funding for engineering on six future improvement projects
  • New state rail plan
  • New equipment

Current Passenger Rail Service

    Missouri Corridor Map
  • Missouri's High Speed Passenger Rail map (pdf 554kb)
  • The Amtrak Missouri River Runner Service is sponsored by the state of Missouri.  It provides intercity passenger rail service between St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri.
  • Service: Twice-daily, round-trip service
  • Ridership: increased by 20 percent in the last fiscal year
  • On-time performance: averaging above 90 percent for past two years
  • Customer Satisfaction: consistently ranked in top five of short-distance corridors

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