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TRANSPORTATION
AIR
LAMBERT-ST.
LOUIS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
St. Louis’ main airport, Lambert-St. Louis International Airport,
is a national hub with two terminals, five concourses, and 85 gates
serving 21 airlines. In 2005 14.7 million passengers traveled through
the airport. Annualized data through September 2006 indicates an
increase in passengers for the year of over five percent. In 2005,
the airport averaged 789 daily arrivals and departures, and provided
non-stop service to over 60 U.S. destinations.1 American Airlines
has a significant presence at Lambert in addition to two major low-cost
providers, Southwest and Frontier Airlines, making airfares competitive.
A $1 billion expansion project creating a new 9,000 foot runway,
Runway 11-29, and improving capacity, was completed in 2006 and
will minimize delays, particularly during inclement weather.
Conveniently located in the region, Lambert is 15 minutes from downtown
St. Louis and has on-site access to the newly expanded MetroLink
light rail system.
| MAJOR
AIRLINES INCLUDE: |
| Air
Canada |
Frontier |
| Allegiant
Airlines |
Go
Jet Airlines |
| America
West |
Northwest |
| American |
Southwest |
| Comair |
United |
| Continental |
USAirways |
| Delta |
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| DAILY
NON-STOP FLIGHTS FROM MAJOR CITIES TO ST. LOUIS |
| From No.
of Flights per Day |
| Atlanta |
14
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| Baltimore |
7
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| Boston |
4
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| Chicago |
39
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| Cincinnati |
6
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| Cleveland |
6
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| Dallas
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16
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| Detroit |
7
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| Houston |
10
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| Indianapolis
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4
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| Los
Angeles |
9
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| Memphis |
5
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| Minneapolis
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13
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| New
York |
16
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| Philadelphia |
8
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| Phoenix |
12
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| Pittsburgh
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7
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| San
Diego |
1
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| San
Francisco |
5
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| Seattle |
6
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| Washington
DC |
24
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MIDAMERICA AIRPORT
MidAmerica Airport serves as the St. Louis Region’s second full
service commercial airport and as a reliever to Lambert-St. Louis
International Airport. Located in St. Clair County, Ill., it provides
state-of-the-art facilities for passengers, traffic, and cargo,
including an adjacent 800-acre industrial park. It has a 10,000-foot
and an 8,000-foot runway and serves cargo, commercial, and military
flights. Much of the area surrounding the airport is an Illinois
Tax Increment Financing (TIF) District designed to help appropriate
new businesses locate nearby and the airport is pending as a Foreign
Trade Zone. The MidAmerica Airport is 24 miles from downtown St.
Louis, and is also served by MetroLink.
OTHER AIRPORTS
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Spirit
of St. Louis Airport, the area’s largest regional airport,
is in St. Louis County. It has recently renovated its main
runway and parallel taxiways. The airport is home to 476 aircraft,
including 125 corporate jets. |
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Another
large regional airport, St. Louis Downtown Airport, is just
across the river from the City of St. Louis in Sauget, Ill.
and provides quick access to the downtown area. It is located
on a 1,013 acre site with an industrial-business park. The
airport is owned by Metro which runs Greater St. Louis’ bus
and light rail commuter system. In 2006, 156,866 flights arrived
or departed from the airport. |
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St.
Louis Regional Airport is only 25 minutes from downtown St.
Louis in East Alton, Ill. and serves a diverse clientele—
from corporate aircraft and general aviators to the U.S. military
and regional aircraft makers. At 2,300 acres, the airport
is Illinois’ fourth largest, handling an average of 80,000
operations per year. |
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Several
other smaller regional airports are also a quick commute from
the downtown area. |
RAIL
Home to six Class I railroads and several smaller industrial rail
lines, St. Louis is the nation’s third-largest rail center, representing
a major employer locally.
Burlington Northern
Santa Fe
Canadian National Railway
CSX Transportation
Kansas City Southern
Norfolk Southern
Union Pacific
Central Midland
Railway
Alton and Southern
Railway
Manufacturers Railway Company
Terminal Railroad
AmTrak
MetroLink
FOREIGN TRADE ZONES
The St. Louis Region has two foreign trade zone sites and four sub-zone
sites located conveniently close to truck, rail and air access.
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Foreign
Trade Zone No. 31 is a public/ private sector venture operated
by the Tri-City Regional Port District, providing 423,000
square feet of flexible warehouse/industrial space, with excellent
multi-modal transportation access. FTZ 31 will soon have a
total of six FTZ sites totaling nearly 8,000 acres. |
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Foreign
Trade Zone No. 102 is situated at the Red Arrow Corporation
warehouse and distribution facility near Lambert-St. Louis
International Airport. It provides 8,100 square feet of bonded
warehouse space for foreign trade use. |
WATER
Situated at the confluence of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois
rivers, St. Louis is home to the nation’s second-largest inland
port by trip ton-miles with over 25 billion trip ton-miles in 2004.2
Our position as the northernmost year-round ice-free port increases
our competitive advantage. Our port is served by all major barge
lines and offers more than 100 docks and terminal facilities and
connects St. Louis to industrial centers in 15 states located along
the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Illinois and Tennessee Rivers,
the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico.
TRI-CITY REGIONAL PORT DISTRICT STATISTICS
Size: Located
on over 1,200 acres on the Mississippi River, the port offers intermodal
resources not found in other U.S. markets with access to the River’s
Edge Business Park containing over 800 acres of space for distribution,
warehousing and manufacturing.
Volume: The Tri-City Regional
Port District serves approximately 2,500 barges annually and is
served by all major barge lines.
Channel Depth: Depth varies
between 10 and 45 feet, with an average depth of 32 feet.
Minimum Channel Width:
300 feet (91.4 meters)
Season: The port is the northernmost
year-round ice free port on the inland waterway.
ROAD TRANSPORTATION
Four interstate highways intersect the
St. Louis region.
Four
interstate linkages provide further connections for St. Louis motorists.
In addition,
the “Avenue of the Saints” highway from St. Louis to St. Paul, Minn.
is nearing completion after 15 years of work. The 560 mile, four
lane expressway “high-priority corridor” is scheduled for completion
in 2008 further improving St. Louis’ highway access.
This level of interstate highway access supports Greater St. Louis’
position as a truck transportation center. St. Louis has well over
1,000 businesses operating in the Truck Transportation industry
with over 600 in the General Freight Trucking industry.3
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
Metro operates the St. Louis metropolitan region’s public transportation
system. The Metro system includes MetroLink, the region’s light
rail system; MetroBus, the region’s bus system; and Metro Call-A-Ride,
a paratransit van system. Metro carried over 49.7 million passengers
on MetroLink, MetroBus, and Metro Call-A-Ride vans in Fiscal Year
(FY) 2006. Metro has a fleet of 432 MetroBus vehicles, 87 light
rail vehicles and 119 Metro Call-A-Ride paratransit vans.
Metro has just completed an eight mile, $676 million extension connecting
the business center of Clayton as well as several inner ring suburbs.
The MetroLink light rail commuter train system now encompasses 46
miles of track, 37 stations, 19 park-ride lots with 10,000 parking
spaces, and 87 vehicles.
Greater St. Louis’ central location is within 500 miles of approximately
one-third of the U.S. population and within 1,500 miles of 90 percent
of the people in North America. This location and the intersection
of many different modes of transportation is a big part of what
makes St. Louis “Perfectly Centered” and “Remarkably Connected.”
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