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The Loop Trolley is a 2.2-mile (3.5 km), 10-station heritage streetcar line in and near the Delmar Loop area of greater St. Louis, Missouri. It opened for service in 2018, then shut down in 2019 after revenue fell far short of projections. Service resumed in 2022 under the Metro Transit division of the Bi-State Development Agency.The tracks start in St. Louis proper at the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park. They run north on DeBaliviere Avenue, with stops at MetroLink's Forest Park–DeBaliviere station and in the neighborhoods of DeBaliviere Place, Skinker/DeBaliviere, and the West End. They turn west on Delmar Boulevard to MetroLink's Delmar Loop station and cross the border of St. Louis County into University City, where they enter the Delmar Loop district and terminate at the University City Library just west of Kingsland Avenue.The line was built at a cost of $51 million (about $63 million in 2022), more than half of which came from federal funds, by the Loop Trolley Transportation Development District, which owns the line and the three replica-historic streetcars. Originally, the service was operated by a separate non-profit entity called the Loop Trolley Company.Its annual operating expenses of $1.3 million were to be covered mostly by a one-cent sales tax collected by businesses along and near the line but also by fares and advertising. But ridership fell far short of expectations, in part because the delayed arrival of its third streetcar limited operations to four days a week.The trolley ceased operation on December 29, 2019. Federal officials subsequently said local governments would have to return millions of dollars of grant money if operation were not restarted.In February 2022, the Bi-State Development Board voted to take over the Loop Trolley, restart operation, and run it through June 2025. Service resumed on August 4, 2022, for a four-day-a-week, fare-free "pilot program" that ran through October 30, when the line shut down for the winter.
In 2023, the line ran Thursdays through Saturdays from April 27 through October 29; rides were free of charge.

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