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Solar power providing more shelter lighting

| Oct. 30, 2015

Solar panels have been installed at 17 new boarding locations, supplying energy to keep waiting shelters lit at night. The solar-powered shelters are located at sites along Xerxes Avenue in Brooklyn Center, on Fremont, Lyndale, Plymouth and West [...]

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Sunshine harnessed for electricity at LRT facility

| Nov. 26, 2013

Metro Transit is getting a little greener (again). This month, a new 40-kilowatt solar array will come online at the Light Rail Support Facility, located east of the METRO Blue Line on Franklin Avenue. The facility serves as a base for all Metro [...]

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How transit helps clear the road

| Nov. 22, 2013

Buses, trains and other modes of transit carry more people more efficiently – a point that was made vividly clear in an image that recently circulated on the Internet. The image sets side-by-side the amount of road space consumed by [...]

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Enjoying the shared ride

| Sep. 30, 2013

When Jan Kaster’s knees began to go and she found it too difficult to use the bus, she thought she might have to retire early. But the Thomson Reuters editor found a way to keep working: she joined a carpool. Using Metro Transit’s Carpool [...]

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KFAI: Metro Transit's super-hybrid buses cleanest in the nation

| Sep. 16, 2013

Metro Transit’s super-hybrid buses – dubbed the cleanest hybrid-electric buses in the United States – were recently featured in a KFAI radio segment. Introduced at the Minnesota State Fair in 2012, Metro Transit’s two Xcelsior buses are unique [...]

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