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Posts in Category: University of Minnesota

Route 6: A reliable ride from Edina to the Green Line

Posted by Drew Kerr | April 4, 2014

Minneapolis resident Iris Key has spent a lot of time on Route 6. As a student at the University of Minnesota, Key rode the bus between campus and her Uptown residence. When she got a job near Edina’s Southdale Center, she used Route 6 to [...]

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Ready, Set, Go-To

| Dec. 19, 2013

Go-To Cards are the easiest way to pay a fare when boarding a Metro Transit bus or train – as customers are increasingly noticing. Go-To and Go-To lite cards were used to pay for a record 57 percent of fares in November, and have accounted [...]

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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 [...]

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U of M students invited to enjoy the ride

| Sep. 5, 2013

For the first time ever, University of Minnesota students are getting a chance to try Metro Transit for free. From 6 p.m. Friday through the end of service on Saturday, students can simply show their U Card to board a bus, a light rail train [...]

Express Bus Route of the Week University of Minnesota

Route 252: From Blaine to books, on the bus