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AIR: International airports: Lambert-St Louis International Airport (STL) (website: www.lambert-stlouis.com) is 21km (13 miles) northwest of central St Louis (travel time – 30 minutes). The MetroLink light-rail system connects the airport with downtown St Louis. Buses, taxis, airport limousines and hire cars are also available.
Kansas City International Airport (KCI) (website: www.kcairports.com) is 15km (9 miles) from the city centre (travel time – 30 minutes). Airport buses, limousines, taxis, hotel shuttle buses and hire cars are available.
Approximate flight times: From London to St Louis is 9 hours 10 minutes (including stopover) and to Kansas City is 13 hours 20 minutes (including stopover).
RAIL: St Louis is a stopping point on Amtrak’s daily Chicago–San Antonio service (tel: (800) 872 7245 (toll free); website: www.amtrak.com), which continues thrice weekly to Los Angeles. Trains on the daily Chicago–Los Angeles service stop in Kansas City. For approximate travel times on the former line, see the Illinois section; for the latter see the California section. There are also twice daily services from Kansas City to St Louis (one of which continues to Chicago) and an additional daily St Louis–Chicago service.
ROAD: Long-distance bus companies operating in the State include Greyhound (tel: (800) 229 9424 (toll free); website: www.greyhound.com) and Jefferson Lines (tel: (800) 451 5333 (toll free); website: www.jeffersonlines.com), with services from Kansas City.
Approximate driving times: From St Louis to Kansas City is 4 hours, to Indianapolis is 5 hours, to Louisville is 5 hours, to Chicago is 5 hours, to Nashville is 6 hours, to Memphis is 6 hours, to Cincinnati is 6 hours, to Little Rock is 7 hours, to Des Moines is 7 hours, to Oklahoma City is 10 hours, to Minneapolis/St Paul is 11 hours, to Dallas is 13 hours, to New York is 19 hours, to Miami is 25 hours, to Los Angeles is 39 hours, and to Seattle is 45 hours.
From Kansas City to Topeka is 2 hours, to Omaha is 4 hours, to Oklahoma City is 7 hours, to Little Rock is 7 hours, to Chicago is 10 hours, to New York is 25 hours, and to Los Angeles is 34 hours.
All times are based on nonstop driving at or below the applicable speed limits.
Approximate bus travel times: From St Louis to Indianapolis is 5 hours, to Kansas City is 5 hours, to Louisville is 6 hours, to Chicago is 7 hours, to Memphis is 7 hours, to Tulsa is 9 hours, and to Nashville is 9 hours.
From Kansas City to Omaha is 5 hours, to Oklahoma City is 9 hours, and to Denver is 13 hours.
URBAN: The MetroLink light-rail system in St Louis is complemented by a network of public bus routes (website: www.bi-state.org). There are public bus services around Kansas City and surrounding suburbs (website: www.kcata.org). Hire cars and taxis are readily available in both cities.
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