{"id":356111,"date":"2025-05-15T11:39:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T16:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/?p=356111"},"modified":"2025-05-15T11:46:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T16:46:51","slug":"food-on-the-move-continues-for-transit-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/nextstop\/food-on-the-move-continues-for-transit-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Food on the Move Partnership Continues to Serve Metro Transit Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Metro Transit and the St. Louis Area Foodbank are <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">continuing their partnership to help address food insecurity issues near two transit <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">centers located in North St. Louis County. The mobile food pantry will continue to visit <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">two Metro Transit Centers on designated Saturdays each month and on one Tuesday <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">a month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-356112 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1727-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1727-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1727-1024x554.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1727-768x415.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1727-1536x831.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1727-2048x1108.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><strong><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">First Saturday of the Month<\/span><\/strong><br role=\"presentation\" \/><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">11 a.m. to 1 p.m. | <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Rock Road Transit Center in Pagedale (Located at 7001 St. Charles Rock Road)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Third Saturday of the Month<\/span><\/strong><br role=\"presentation\" \/><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">11 a.m. to 1 p.m. | <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">North Hanley Transit Center (<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Located at 4300 Hanley Road, St. Louis, MO)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Third Tuesday of the Month<\/span><\/strong><br role=\"presentation\" \/><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. | <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Rock Road Transit Center in Pagedale (Located at 7001 St. Charles Rock Road)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">The St. Louis Area Foodbank Food on the Move mobile pantry offers transit <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">customers, area residents, and visitors fresh, healthy food for themselves and their <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">families, free of charge. With rising food costs and children being out of school soon <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">for the summer, the free food will help household budgets stretch a little further. The <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Food on the Move mobile pantry is equipped with refrigerators and can provide fresh <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">and shelf-stable food items. The pantry is accessible by both ramps and stairs. <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">The partnership between Metro Transit and the St. Louis Area Foodbank was formed <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">several years ago as part of a pilot program to bring healthy food choices to transit <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">areas in food deserts.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro Transit and the St. Louis Area Foodbank are continuing their partnership to help address food insecurity issues near two transit centers located in North St. Louis County. The mobile food pantry will continue to visit two Metro Transit Centers on designated Saturdays each month and on one Tuesday a month. First Saturday of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metro-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}