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BCTC construction aims to refresh facility

Posted by John Komarek | Oct. 16, 2020

Improvements to one of Metro Transit's busiest boarding areas, the Brooklyn Center Transit Center, are underway. When construction is complete in early-2021, customers and staff will find new canopies, benches, ticket machines, bike racks and [...]

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Better Bus Routes set sights on Route 3

Posted by John Komarek | Oct. 16, 2020

A construction crew working this summer on shelter for Route 63, now with Better Bus Route upgrades implemented at the start of the September service change. Since 2018, the Better Bus Route program has sought to improve the customer [...]

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65 operators earn journeyworker certificate

Posted by John Komarek | Oct. 9, 2020

At the first of four socially distant ceremonies, 15 bus operators received their journeyworker certificate issued by the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry. Starting on Oct. 9 and over the course of four socially distanced events [...]

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Mentor program expands, innovates to connect operators

| Sep. 18, 2020

During an unprecedented period in recent history, this team of mentors works to connect new and experienced operators in a mentorship program aimed at helping new operators navigate being on the job. Facing many unknowns, the bus operator mentor [...]

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Special MTPD team focuses on trouble areas to address customers’ concern

| Sep. 16, 2020

Since this summer, the Transit Response Unit (TRU) team has been using data to proactively address customers’ concerns like disorderly conduct, smoking, drinking, and other inappropriate behaviors. “We are combining technological resources a [...]

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