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It’s the first Wednesday of the month and you have special access to key Metro Transit officials as part of lunchtime Metro Transit Chat Live on stltoday.com.

As part of a partnership with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ray Friem and Jessica Mefford-Miller answer your public transit questions from noon until 1 p.m. live online. Ray is our Chief Operating Officer Transit Services and Jessica is our Chief of Planning and System Development.

This week’s chat will discuss the following:

Metro Transit and its regional partners have embarked on the St. Louis Rapid Transit Connector Study, which is intended to identify new transit projects that will provide efficient, competitive and attractive transit service to more people and places in the St. Louis region. This study will identify and advance two transit investment projects for pursuit of federal funding.  The study is a direct result of Moving Transit Forward, Metro’s long-range plan which identified some of the region’s corridors and their surroundings as potential opportunities to expand premium quality transit service:  I-70, I-44, I-40 and I-55. Metro will engage the public throughout the project. The first round of public meetings will commence later this month.