Safety
Transit Police
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Monday, August 5, 2013 10:49:00 AM
As new immigrants to the United States, Abdulkhayr Hirse and Salah Ahmed relied heavily on transit to get to work and school.
A few short years later, their experience is coming full circle. The Somali-born men were among 19 new full-time
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Bus
Good Question
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Thursday, August 1, 2013 9:30:00 AM
There’s a Route 2. There are also routes 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. But there is no Route 1. Why? Good question.
Steve Legler, Metro Transit's assistant director of Service Development, believes the answer goes back to the mid-1950s,
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Bus
Route of the Week
Suburban Transit
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013 5:00:00 PM
Prabhu Prakasham boards a Route 615 bus once a month to get from his Hopkins apartment to Park Nicollet, on Excelsior Boulevard in St. Louis Park. At least three times a week, Alexander Nemets takes it the other direction from his St. Louis Park
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In the News
Safety
Transit Police
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013 5:00:00 PM
Minnesota Public Radio reports on a new state law that classifies certain assaults against bus and train operators as gross misdemeanors, punishable by up to a year in prison and a $3,000 fine – previously the penalty was up to 90 days in a
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Bus
Know Your Operator
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Friday, July 26, 2013 9:48:00 AM
Before he became a bus driver, Tony Taylor sold shoes. That close personal interaction with people, he says, provided him with just the kind of training he needed to get behind the wheel of a bus, a job that puts him face-to-face with hundreds
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