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Posts in Category: A Line BRT

Techs take care of the technology behind transit

| Feb. 9, 2016

When Ed Anstett began at Metro Transit 36 years ago he was among four people who maintained the radios that had just been added to buses, providing a lifeline for operators who before that had nothing to rely on but payphones. Like the technology [...]

A Line BRT St. Paul

Time lapse: A Line shelter installation

Posted by Drew Kerr | Jan. 8, 2016

The latest sign of progress on what will become the region’s first arterial Bus Rapid Transit Line, the A Line, arrived this week near the corner of Snelling and University avenues. The shelter installed Wednesday on the northbound side of [...]

A Line BRT Bus

A Line buses start rolling in

Posted by Drew Kerr | Dec. 10, 2015

Buses that will be used on the region’s first arterial Bus Rapid Transit line are beginning to arrive. The first of 12 BRT buses that will be used on the A Line, #8000, was delivered on Friday, Nov. 27. The remainder of the fleet is scheduled to [...]

A Line BRT METRO Green Line St. Paul Station Spotlight

Shows, support and supplies await at Snelling Station

| Jan. 27, 2014

Jim Segal is rethinking the type of bags he provides customers at his University Avenue store, Ax-Man Surplus. That’s because he thinks more than a few of them will be boarding the METRO Green Line after shopping at the store, located less than a [...]

A Line BRT Bus METRO Blue Line Route of the Week St. Paul

Route 74: Easy riding from East to West

| Oct. 11, 2013

After working 10-hour, overnight shifts at St. Joseph’s Hospital, the last thing Donna Cooley wants to do is get in her car and deal with traffic. So she takes the Route 74 bus instead. “It’s just so much easier to let someone else do the driving [...]

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