MetroLink Activity Book for Children

1. Activity Book
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3. Never try to open the ________ when riding Metro.
6. What do you pull on to signal a MetroBus that you would like to get off at the
next stop?
8. Metro Call-A-Ride provides curb-to-curb transportation for __________ with
disabilities.
9. Wait for your MetroBus on the _____________.
10.Always enter the MetroBus through the ________ doors.
11.You can save __________ by taking Metro.
12._____________, look and listen for trains before crossing the tracks.
13.Allow passengers to exit before you ____________ a vehicle.
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1. Metro is safe and ____________.
2. It is dangerous to walk on the _________ that MetroLink travels on.
4. What is another name for a Metro professional driver?
5. MetroBus, MetroLink and Metro Call-A-Ride are public _______________.
7. Where do passengers stand while waiting for MetroLink?
8. Do not _________ around train tracks or stations

3. Taking turns with a friend, draw a line from one Railroad
Crossing sign to the next. If you complete a box, write
your initial in it. (See example)
R R R R R R
When completed, count the
M number of boxes with your
initial. The person with the
R R R R R R
most boxes WINS!
Example
R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R
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Be alert near railroad crossings. Look both ways before crossing.
Never race a train or drive around safety gates. Wait until the red
lights stop flashing to go through the intersection!
Remember: MetroLink always has 2 tracks!

4. Metro goes
GREEN!
People talk about being green, but Metro
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Fluorescent Bulbs
Cleaner Environment
Air Quality
Public transit can save
Public transit a family more than
users drive $1,400 annually!
4,400 fewer
miles per year
5 GREEN Things
on average,
YOU can do when
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you go places!
miles traveled
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1 Walk. You’ve got legs and you’re not afraid to
cleaner air. use them.
2 Ride your bike. It’s faster than walking and just
as GREEN!
3 Carpool. Two passengers are better than one
and more is even better than that.
4 Ride METRO. It’s the ultimate carpool!
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Learn more at If you have to drive, don’t leave the car idling.
Pollution is the NOT GREEN!
www.cleanair-stlouis.com.

5. FIND THE METRO WORDS
IN THE PUZZLE BELOW!
G G G R C T N S Y J T A O P C
E Q V E O N Z V T I M R C O M
P N Y Y M T I D C A T F N V R
U I V W F U A K S E T V F A O
B A L I O O E R M K E I Q N F
L R E C R T B B E N C J O N T
I T Y L T O B U I P X A O N A
C V I K A D N E S K O X R R L
B A O V B Y N M R I D E K T P
R O L T L T F R E F S N A R T
M Q Y T E F A S N N E C M B P
R E L I A B L E Z R T L C X A
B F R P A F P Y Q P E A O A D
R W Y E U K M U Q H I F L P Z
T R A N S P O R T A T I O N T
Bus Metro Reliable Tracks
Comfortable Operator Ride Train
Convenient Platform Safety Transfer
Environmental Public Station Transportation
Fun Railroad Ticket Van

6. Find your Way to the
MetroLink Station!
Fun things to do near MetroLink Stations!
Arch-Laclede’s Landing
Forest Park-DeBaliviere
•Gateway Arch & Museum of Westward Expansion
•St. Louis Zoo
•Gateway Arch Riverboats
•History Museum
•Helicopter Tours
•Art Museum
•Bicycle Rentals
•The Science Center
•The Muny Visit www.gatewayarch.com for
more information!
•Steinberg Ice Skating Rink

7. 1 If there are 2,221 railroadwill it takemile to walktakes Mary one secondhowwalk from one
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tie to the next, how long her a mile? At this pace, long would it
take Mary to walk the 37.7 miles from Airport Main to Shiloh-Scott Station?
2 The average elephant weighs 2,017 pounds. The average MetroBus weighs 28,250
pounds. How many elephants would it take to equal the weight of one MetroBus?
3 TheisGateway Arch isHow manytall and 630 feet from leg to head Thetoe does it12 year
630 feet leg. average
old 60 inches tall. 12 year olds stacked from to take to
reach the top of the Arch?
Double Puzzle
Unscramble each of the clue words.
Take the letters that appear in boxes and
unscramble them for the final message.
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NATSISTO
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8. Connect the Dots and Draw Yourself as the
MetroBus Operator!
Answers
Metro Mind Twisters 1
1. 37 minutes to walk a mile. S
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2. 14 elephants = 1 MetroBus
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3. 126 twelve year olds! A S N L A
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