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Metro Transit leaders invite you to second Listening Sessions Tour 

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Posted by | Aug. 1, 2024

Let's keep the conversation going! Following our inaugural Listening Sessions Tour earlier this year, Metro Transit leaders are holding another round of public listening sessions at six METRO Blue and Green line stations. General Manager [...]

Transit Improvements

Wayfinding pilot launches at Mall of America Transit Center 

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Posted by John Komarek | June 16, 2022

Customers at the Mall of America Transit Center will be the first in the region to test wayfinding improvements. As they arrive, customers will be greeted by new pavement markings, column wraps, and kiosks at key locations around the [...]

Transit Improvements

Team making real progress on real-time signs 

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Posted by John Komarek | March 31, 2022

A team dedicated to maintaining real-time signs at busy boarding areas is having a big impact. Today, all but a few of the more than 200 real-time signs found across the region are working as intended, and issues that do occur are most-often [...]

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Plastic seats the new norm on light rail vehicles 

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| Sep. 9, 2021

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 [...]

Transit Improvements

TOD: Developments succeed near high frequency transit 

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Posted by John Komarek | Aug. 30, 2019

A new report from Metro Transit's Office of Transit Oriented Development finds that areas served by high frequency are attracting a considerable share of the region’s housing and commercial development. According to the report, more than a [...]

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