{"id":62406,"date":"2017-06-14T11:17:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T16:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/?p=62406"},"modified":"2024-02-29T09:52:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:52:37","slug":"passenger-profile-maurice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/nextstop\/passenger-profile-maurice\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger Profile: Maurice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Passengers like<\/em> Maurice\u00a0<\/i><\/span>depend on Metro transit to get to work, school and other important destinations. We hope you enjoy<\/em>\u00a0his\u00a0<\/i><\/span>story, and we\u2019re interested in your transit story too. Email\u00a0mrhibbard@bistatedev.org<\/a>, and we may share your story in a future \u201cPassenger Profile.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Maurice depends on the reliability of MetroBus and MetroLink to get him to and from work each day.<\/p>\n

Each day of the week, Maurice boards the #1 Main Street-State Street bus near his home and rides to the Fairview Heights MetroLink Station. From there, he boards a Red Line train and rides to the end of the line at the Shiloh-Scott MetroLink Station. The last bit of his commute is on a free shuttle within\u00a0Scott Air Force Base, which literally drops him off right in front of his office.<\/p>\n

“I don’t have to worry about stop signs,” he said. “I don’t have road rage.”<\/p>\n

Maurice has been an avid transit user for years, and was excited when MetroLink first opened in 1993. However, he had to wait for it to expand a few miles east before he could take full advantage of it. Back then, the furthest east it went was to the 5th & Missouri MetroLink Station in East St. Louis. The system expanded to the Shiloh-Scott MetroLink Station in 2003,\u00a0<\/a>and that’s when MetroLink became a regular part of Maurice’s life.<\/p>\n

“When it opened, it quickly became a lot easier to get around,” he said. “There was less hassle, less traffic.”<\/p>\n

Today, Maurice continues to use a combination of MetroBus and MetroLink to get to work. It’s a commute he’s trusted on for many years, and he has no plans to stop anytime soon.<\/p>\n

“I don’t have to worry if I will get there on time” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Passengers like Maurice\u00a0depend on Metro transit to get to work, school and other important destinations. We hope you enjoy\u00a0his\u00a0story, and we\u2019re interested in your transit story too. Email\u00a0mrhibbard@bistatedev.org, and we may share your story in a future \u201cPassenger Profile.\u201d Maurice depends on the reliability of MetroBus and MetroLink to get him to and from work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1198],"class_list":["post-62406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metro-lifestyle","tag-passenger-profile"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}