Rider's Almanac Blog

Efforts to improve conditions on transit showing promising results

| April 29, 2024

Metro Transit’s ridership continues to grow as efforts to improve conditions and expand the official presence on transit advance. Through the end of March, more than 11.56 million rides had been taken across the agency’s bus, light rail, and [...]

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Rail maintenance projects keep trains running smoothly, safely

Posted by Drew Kerr | April 22, 2024

Top left and bottom right: Crews repair rail breaks near the METRO Green Line's Fairview Avenue Station on Saturday, April 20, 2024. With embedded track, crews have to remove and replace concrete that surrounds the track. At top right and bottom [...]

Help us make it a clean ride for everyone

Posted by Drew Kerr | April 22, 2024

Our maintenance teams work incredibly hard to keep our buses, trains, and public facilities clean. Even so, we often hear that the appearance of our system isn’t meeting expectations, negatively affecting the way people perceive our [...]

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From the General Manager: Help us show more people what we have to offer

Posted by Drew Kerr | April 10, 2024

If you’re reading this, chances are you’re already riding transit at least somewhat regularly. But there are a lot of people in our region who haven’t been on transit lately, if ever. In a recent regional survey, just 43% of those familiar [...]

Adopt-A-Stoppers take on light rail stations

Posted by Drew Kerr | April 9, 2024

Clockwise from top left: Owen Young, who adopted the Blue Line's 46th Street Station, members of the Hamline-Midway Coalition, Nancy Ruhland at the Green Line's 10th Street Station, Hassan Barzani, and members of the University of Minnesota [...]