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Artwork highlights the connection between transit, regional parks

Posted by Drew Kerr | June 20, 2019

Large, colorful monarch butterflies may give you a ride to a regional park this summer. Metro Transit has wrapped two buses, dubbed Nature Connectors, with a beautiful painting designed by Minneapolis muralist Greta McLain and created in her [...]

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Commuter Choice Awards celebrate sustainable transportation leaders

Posted by Drew Kerr | May 7, 2019

A bakery that boasts of being St. Paul’s only carbon-free carb delivery and a YMCA that rewards members for working out on the way to their workouts were recognized as area mobility leaders this week. Metro Transit and Transportation Management [...]

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In Coon Rapids, hobbyists create scaled-down Northstar

Posted by Laura Baenen | April 3, 2019

Customers who ride the Northstar Commuter Rail Line must look up to take in the nearly 300,000-pound, 16-foot tall locomotives that pull passenger cars between Minneapolis and Big Lake. But in the basement of a former Coon Rapids grocery store [...]

Bus Community St. Paul

On Transit Driver Appreciation Day, admiration goes both ways

Posted by Drew Kerr | March 19, 2019

Transit Driver Appreciation Day was designed to put the focus on operators like Shelly Logelin, who started working at Metro Transit in 2013. But when students from Saint Paul Public School’s Focus Beyond Transition Services visited Metro [...]

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On/Off the Clock with Paul Hollen

Posted by John Komarek | Dec. 20, 2018

Name: Paul Hollen Lives: Minneapolis Job: Assistant Transportation Manager, South Garage Years of service: 5 1/2 How did you come to work at Metro Transit and what do you do? After working 20 years in a few different industries, I [...]

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