Bus
Community
Minneapolis
Safety
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Friday, January 3, 2014 12:00:00 AM
In 2013, Metro Transit dispatched more than seventy buses throughout the Twin Cities in support of emergency responses to fires, gas leaks and other hazardous situations. Buses provide climate-controlled shelter and comfort for the displaced and
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Bus
Express Bus
Safety
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Thursday, December 19, 2013 1:30:00 PM
As a New Hope police officer, Debra Downing patrolled an area of just five square miles. As one of Metro Transit’s Transit Supervisors, she has a little more territory to cover.
While she is based at East Metro Garage in St. Paul, Downing is an
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Bus
Express Bus
Light Rail
METRO Blue Line
Northstar
Rider Information
Safety
Winter Weather
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Monday, November 4, 2013 12:20:00 PM
Snow is back in the forecast...and Metro Transit is ready.
Record-setting winter storms in 1991 and 2010 are the only times in Metro Transit’s modern history where bus service was temporarily suspended due to weather. The all-season METRO Blue
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Light Rail
METRO Blue Line
METRO Green Line
Safety
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Friday, October 11, 2013 10:00:00 AM
Shortly after 9 a.m. on a recent Monday morning, Shawn Jensen and two other rail maintainers got off a light-rail train at the METRO Blue Line’s Target Field Station and began slowly walking south.
Stepping down the line through downtown
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Bus
Safety
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Monday, September 23, 2013 1:00:00 PM
When Randy Finch began working at Metro Transit, fares were 30 cents, bus drivers didn’t wear seatbelts and buses could move with relative freedom on local streets and highways. The world has changed a bit since then.
But there is one thing
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