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Awards recognize sustainable transportation leaders

Posted by jennasbennett | May 4, 2017

When Augsburg University began building its new Hagfors Center for Science, Business, and Religion in 2015, the college lost about 20 percent of the 1,000 parking spaces at its West Bank campus. The sudden loss in parking led Beth Reissenweber, [...]

Fares In the News

Wilken recognized with Distinguished Career Award

| Oct. 19, 2016

Revenue Operations Supervisor Bill Wilken has seen quite a few changes since he began his career cleaning buses more than 40 years ago. Many of them were of his own making, too. After transferring to Sales Operations in the early 1980s, Wilken [...]

Bus In the News

Yang listed among top young transit professionals

| Sep. 7, 2016

East Metro Assistant Transportation Manager Chang Yang has been recognized as one of the country’s top young transit professionals. Yang appears in Mass Transit magazine’s annual Top 40 Under 40 list, which celebrates transit’s “best and [...]

Bus Bus Maintenance Community In the News

Friends turn retired bus into RV, drive across U.S.

Posted by Kathy Graul | Sep. 15, 2015

Have you ever thought about what it would be like to turn something unconventional into a house? How about a Metro Transit bus? That's exactly what a couple of friends from the Twin Cities did this summer before embarking on a journey in the [...]

Bus Community In the News

Spanish classes help operators break through ‘invisible wall’

| June 3, 2015

During a recent trip on Route 21, operator Ken Peters encountered a customer who spoke limited English but needed help figuring out where to transfer downtown. Fortunately, Peters had spent the previous eight weeks studying words and phrases [...]

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