Oct 6, 2025
Remy Xa is a big believer in the value public transit can bring to students at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Serving as the student program manager of community and belonging in the Office of Student Involvement, Xa has been leading an initiative over the past year called Quest St. Louis designed to help students engage with the MetroLink and MetroBus systems and connect to other parts of the St. Louis region they otherwise might not have visit. “We wanted to show people the food, the culture, all of the wonderful experiences that they were missing in the city,” Xa said. “We created little brochures and little guides, and we’ve been bringing students on these guided Metro field trips with the priority of being eco-sustainable, affordable and accessible to as many people as possible.”
That all made Xa an ideal choice to extol the virtues of Metro Transit during a kickoff event for the latest “College Transit Challenge,” held Thursday morning at the Grand MetroLink station beneath the Grand Boulevard viaduct. The senior communication major was one of several area students and staff members to provide testimonials as part of the kickoff. “I challenge you to bring students on these excursions, demystify the process and give them the strength going in numbers, trying out the city and all it has to share,” Xa told the assembled crowd shortly before they all boarded the eastbound train for a ceremonial ride to the 8th and Pine MetroLink Station to kick off the challenge.
