Metros Baer asks for M in emergency state funding

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Metro CEO Bob Baer headed to Jefferson City on Wednesday to plead his case to lawmakers for $35 million in emergency state funding to reverse some of the drastic bus and Metro Link cuts the agency's had to make.

From The St. Louis Business Journal

"We've got to be thinking about transit in terms of job creation and retention and its connection to the economy," he said.