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Taylor named Minnesota Bus Operator of the Year 

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| Oct. 18, 2013

Two longtime Metro Transit employees were honored with awards from the Minnesota Public Transportation Association this week. Tony Taylor, a 34-year Safe Operator based at Heywood Garage, was named the Minnesota Bus Operator of the Year, which [...]

Route 14: Robbinsdale to Richfield on Broadway, Bloomington 

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| Oct. 18, 2013

Jeff Odegard estimates it would take a half hour for him to drive from his Golden Valley home to the Gibbs Museum in Falcon Heights, where he works as an historic site interpreter. Instead, Odegard boards a Route 14 bus to downtown [...]

Good Question: Why offer transfers? 

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| Oct. 17, 2013

This week’s Good Question comes from Andrew Balfour, who emailed to ask: “Why are transfers allowed? Why not just have payment required for each trip and a lower per-trip cost instead?” Metro Transit operates nearly 130 routes in 90 [...]

Route 74: Easy riding from East to West 

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| Oct. 11, 2013

After working 10-hour, overnight shifts at St. Joseph’s Hospital, the last thing Donna Cooley wants to do is get in her car and deal with traffic. So she takes the Route 74 bus instead. “It’s just so much easier to let someone else do the driving [...]

Keeping a careful eye on the METRO Blue Line 

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| Oct. 11, 2013

Shortly after 9 a.m. on a recent Monday morning, Shawn Jensen and two other rail maintainers got off a light-rail train at the METRO Blue Line’s Target Field Station and began slowly walking south. Stepping down the line through downtown [...]

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