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Downtown St. Louis Employment Up;
Transit Market Share Falling


According to data released by the Downtown St. Louis Partnership, downtown St. Louis employment rose 3.7 percent from 1996 to 1998 (from 88,087 to 91,338).(1)

  • All of the gain was in the periphery of downtown, with core employment dropping nearly 1,000.

  • Approximately 80 percent of the gain was in local, state and federal government employment.

At the same time, the survey indicated a substantial downward trend in journey to work market share for both public transit and car pools. Since 1996:

  • Transit work trip market share dropped 30.5 percent (bus and light rail).

  • Light rail work trip market share dropped 10 percent.

  • Car pool market share dropped two thirds.


1. As reported in the St. Louis Post Dispatch, 4 March 1999 (Charlene Proust, "Downtown Gains Workers and Businesses, Survey Shows").


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