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'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