Rider's Almanac Blog

Where I’m From: David K. Barnhart, assistant transportation manager

Posted by Drew Kerr | June 2, 2023

Metro Transit employees come from many cultures and backgrounds. To celebrate this diversity, employees who are proud to share their heritage and identity will be regularly featured on the Riders' Almanac blog. Read more stories here. Please [...]

Service Changes

June service changes are an encouraging turning point

Posted by Drew Kerr | June 2, 2023

From Director of Service Development, Adam Harrington For the last two years, we’ve been unable to offer as much service as we’d like because of an ongoing operator shortage.   But recent hiring success will allow us to make some targeted [...]

Operator and student bond over transit

Posted by John Komarek | June 2, 2023

Every day on Route 22, Bus Operator Anthony Moore drives a couple hundred students in Minneapolis to and from school. There’s only one student, however, who continually shares his passion for transit with him. “It started with just a fist [...]

Safety and Security Action Plan

Coordinated effort to address needs, improve public safety on transit  underway

Posted by Drew Kerr | June 1, 2023

Partner with us! Through the Transit Service Intervention Project, up to $2 million in funding is available to groups that connect people to services. Funding can go toward staffing and related expenses through June 2024. Declarations of [...]

How We Roll

How We Roll: Laura Matson and Katie Roth

| May 11, 2023

Laura Matson (right), manager of data and business systems for Transit Information, considers herself an e-bike evangelist. Among those she’s helped convert: Katie Roth (left), director of Bus Rapid Transit projects. We interviewed them together [...]

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