Rider's Almanac Blog

Safeguards allow for return of front-door boarding on August 1

Posted by Drew Kerr | July 24, 2020

Customers encouraged to purchase fares using Go-To Cards, Metro Transit App Metro Transit customers will resume boarding buses through the front door on Saturday, Aug. 1. Onboard fare collection will also resume on August 1. In response [...]

How We Roll

How We Roll: David Feldmann

Posted by John Komarek | July 20, 2020

Many Metro Transit employees must continue to report to work in order to perform their duties. Among them is bus operator David Feldmann, a St. Louis, Mo., transplant who rides the bus everywhere. Feldmann has been car-free for the last twenty [...]

Bus COVID-19

Temporary shields being introduced to help protect operators

| July 11, 2020

Body Shop technicians have been asked to come up with creative solutions more than once since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Their latest invention: Temporary shields, fashioned largely from recycled bus parts, that will help safeguard operators [...]

COVID-19 Transit Police

MTPD Lieutenant brings medical background to pandemic fight

Posted by Laura Baenen | July 10, 2020

Growing up, Lt. Mario Ruberto dreamed of becoming a paramedic like those he saw on “Emergency,” a 1970s semi-documentary TV series about Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics. Ruberto began living the dream when he became a Mayo Clinic cardiac [...]

In This Together

In This Together: Bus Operator Machelle "Mickey" Albert

| July 8, 2020

Across the organization, Metro Transit employees’ work has been changed by the COVID-19 pandemic. These "In These Together" Q&As illustrate how employees are adapting both on and off the clock. Read more interviews here. Machelle "Mickey" [...]