Skip to main content

Rider's Almanac Blog

Hope abounds at Hamline Avenue 

Blog Post Image
| June 16, 2014

Like many of the students who documented the METRO Green Line’s construction as part of a special class at Gordon Parks High School, Khalaun Phillips viewed light-rail construction as an unwelcome inconvenience. Now that work has come to an end, [...]

Green Line poster contest winner revealed 

Blog Post Image
| June 12, 2014

When Genesia Williams heard about the METRO Green Line Opening Day Poster Contest, she knew immediately that she had to enter. A graduate of the Minneapolis Community & Technical College’s graphic design and print program, Williams wanted to [...]

Rail returns to the Central Corridor 

Blog Post Image
| June 11, 2014

Aaron Isaacs worked at Metro Transit from 1973 to 2006. A historian with the Minnesota Streetcar Museum, Isaacs is the co-author of Twin Cities by Trolley and author of Twin Ports by Trolley, which will be released in September. Isaacs also edits [...]

The sky's the limit 

Blog Post Image
| June 6, 2014

A new stairway-elevator tower connecting street-level transit and the St. Paul skyway opened on Thursday at the METRO Green Line’s Central Station. The first person to take the trip up the tower: Rick Cardenas, who advocated on behalf of the [...]

Car-free and creative at Raymond Avenue Station 

Blog Post Image
| May 27, 2014

When David Needham and his wife Alyscia moved from San Francisco to Minneapolis in 2013, they didn’t think they’d be able to sustain their car-free life. Eight months later, they drove south to visit family in Texas, left their car behind and [...]

Page 144 of 170 << < 30 70 100 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 > >>