ST. LOUIS — Local officials are abandoning plans to build a new MetroLink "green line" linking the city's north and south sides, determining it's unlikely to win the hundreds of millions of dollars in federal money needed to help build it.

"Based on the information developed for the project and the current state of the transit federal funding program, it has been determined that pursuing a light rail project for this corridor is not likely to secure the required federal funding," top officials with the Bi-State Development Agency said in a memo to Bi-State board members.

The move by Bi-State, which oversees Metro Transit, came five months after newly-elected Mayor Cara Spencer said she wanted to see proof that the proposed $1.1 billion project could win federal support before the city co

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