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Posts in Category: Bus Rapid Transit

Route 50: Limited stops for longer rides

| Dec. 6, 2013

When the snow fell on Wednesday, it took Brandon Vanhee more than an hour to make the 15-mile trek from his home in Otsego to Maple Grove’s Parkway Transit Station. The rest of his journey to the University of Minnesota wasn’t nearly as [...]

Bus Bus Rapid Transit Community Minneapolis

Talking transit through theater

| Nov. 15, 2013

Route 19 will turn into something of a roving stage on Saturday, Nov. 16, as actors travel the corridor, stopping along the way to perform skits and invite dialogue in an innovative and interactive performance called Bus Stop Theater. The goal: [...]

Bus Bus Rapid Transit On the METRO Transit Planning

Report: Transit investments bring more private spending

| Sep. 26, 2013

A new report underscores the economic development potential of transit investments like the METRO Red Line launched this summer along Cedar Avenue and planned Arterial Bus Rapid Transit lines in the Twin Cities. The report from the Institute [...]

Bus Bus Rapid Transit Route of the Week St. Paul

Route 68: A 'radial' ride down Robert Street

| Sep. 16, 2013

Before they began riding Route 68 last year, Peter and David didn’t know one another. Today, though, the Inver Hills Community College students make a habit of sitting together on the bus so they can debate culture, philosophy and politics while [...]

Bus Bus Rapid Transit METRO Green Line Minneapolis Route of the Week St. Paul University of Minnesota

Route 61: From the city to the farm and back again

| Aug. 21, 2013

Bucolic farm views aren’t what customers expect to find while riding one of Metro Transit’s urban bus routes. But that’s what they’ll find on Route 61 as it passes the University of Minnesota’s St. Paul campus. Acres of corn, tomatoes and other [...]

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