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Winter weather brings out the best 

Posted by Drew Kerr | Thursday, February 23, 2023 9:05:00 PM
It’s not often we suggest people limit their travel. Thank you to those who played it safe and helped us do our job serving people who really needed it. Those who rode it out with us had some kind things to say, too. A sampling of what we [...]
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Long shutdown will help METRO Blue Line have a long life 

Posted by Drew Kerr | Thursday, July 7, 2022 1:05:00 PM
New track sections have been staged in Bloomington, where Blue Line improvements will be made over the next five weeks. Light rail vehicles have traveled up and down the METRO Blue Line more than 1 million times since it opened in 2004. Wear [...]
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Test will help determine if fewer light rail vehicles improves customer experience  

Posted by Drew Kerr | Tuesday, July 5, 2022 9:35:00 AM
From July 9 through August 19, people who take the METRO Blue and Green lines will notice something different than they’re used to – light rail vehicles traveling in sets of two, rather than three. The temporary switch is being made to see [...]
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Detection system keeps trains moving safely through airport tunnel 

| Thursday, May 19, 2022 4:38:00 PM
A few people a year, deer and the occasional raccoon try to walk, run or scamper through the light rail tunnel under the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. But they don't often get very far without being detected. Sensors in the [...]
Light Rail METRO Blue Line METRO Green Line Minneapolis St. Paul Transit Improvements

Plastic seats the new norm on light rail vehicles 

| Thursday, September 9, 2021 6:58:00 PM
The cloth seats customers once found – and sometimes avoided – on light rail vehicles are no more. This summer, light rail technicians finished swapping out more than 13,000 cloth seat backs and bottoms with new, custom-designed plastic seats [...]
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