Rider's Almanac Blog

How We Roll: Liz Morice, senior project coordinator, Engineering & Facilities

Posted by Drew Kerr | Feb. 7, 2025

How We Roll celebrates Metro Transit employees who use transit and other forms of sustainable transportation to get around. Read more How We Roll Q&As here. How do you get to work? Depending on my work location, I take a [...]

Bus Maintenance Career Tracks

Technician apprentice: Show up, work hard and you’ll succeed

| Jan. 14, 2025

When DeVona Love came to Metro Transit, she planned to stick around just long enough to pay for nursing school. The longer she stayed, though, the more she dedicated herself to building a career in transit. She went from being a part-time to [...]

Career Tracks

Career Tracks: Daniel Kemp, Supervisor, Rail Maintenance QA & Training

Posted by Drew Kerr | Jan. 9, 2025

Many people who work at Metro Transit take on new responsibilities and roles throughout their careers. Career Tracks highlights the paths employees have taken to their latest assignment and where they see themselves going next. How did you [...]

The MT 10

10 Questions with Metro Transit - Rissa

Posted by Drew Johnson | Jan. 9, 2025

We hear and learn from our actual customers as they answer our "10 Questions with Metro Transit!" Today we meet Rissa! How long have you been riding the bus or train? I've been riding the bus/trains since I first moved to Minneapolis in 2016. [...]

From GM Lesley Kandaras Safety and Security Action Plan

New reporting tool is another visible sign harassment won’t be tolerated

Posted by Drew Kerr | Jan. 8, 2025

From General Manager Lesley Kandaras Sexual harassment has no place on transit. That’s why, as part of our larger effort to provide a consistently safe, welcoming experience, we recently introduced a new way for you to anonymously report [...]