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Posts in Category: D Line

BRT successes provide plenty of reasons to be optimistic

| Feb. 4, 2020

A customer boards a northbound Route 6 on France Avenue, where the METRO E Line will operate in the future. From Charles Carlson, Director of Bus Rapid Transit Projects Here and across the country, bus ridership is declining. But in [...]

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Artist quilts riders waiting for METRO D Line

Posted by John Komarek | June 26, 2019

Local artist Carol Hancuh holds two of her quilted characters at a bus shelter near E. 48th Street and Chicago Avenue in the future METRO D Line corridor. ----- As the METRO D Line enters the engineering phase, local artist Carol Hancuh’s [...]

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METRO D Line begins pre-construction survey

Posted by John Komarek | Jan. 8, 2019

Jared Gazda takes a moment to setup his surveying equipment at the corner of 38th and Chicago in Minneapolis. The information he gathers will aid in station construction, including ADA compliance and drainage. Before the first shovel breaks [...]

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Three future rapid bus projects move forward

Posted by Drew Kerr | July 26, 2018

Plans to bring the kind of fast, frequent service that has been so successful on the A Line to three additional corridors advanced within the past week. Here is a summary of the latest advances: C Line Crews recently began assembling the [...]