Rider's Almanac Blog

Orange Line at the center of an exciting new chapter for I-35W

Posted by John Komarek | July 23, 2019

Gov. Tim Walz addresses the media and a crowd at the METRO Orange Line groundbreaking ceremony at the Knox Avenue Park & Ride. From General Manager Wes Kooistra Sixty years ago next month, Twin Cities motorists celebrated the opening of [...]

Light Rail METRO Blue Line Minneapolis Transit Police

Partners share Metro Transit Police Department's Officer of the Year honors

Posted by Laura Baenen | July 2, 2019

As partners, police officers Michael Affeldt and Joseph Carchedi spend so much time together their peers refer to them jointly as “Affeldt and Carchedi.” And now they share something in addition to a name and a beat. Affeldt and Carchedi were [...]

D Line

Artist quilts riders waiting for METRO D Line

Posted by John Komarek | June 26, 2019

Local artist Carol Hancuh holds two of her quilted characters at a bus shelter near E. 48th Street and Chicago Avenue in the future METRO D Line corridor. ----- As the METRO D Line enters the engineering phase, local artist Carol Hancuh’s [...]

Transit Police

Gratitude motivates new Metro Transit police officers

Posted by John Komarek | June 25, 2019

Eight years to the day after a bullet tore through his left triceps in a close firefight with Taliban militants in Afghanistan, Chang Lee was sworn-in as one of the Metro Transit Police Department’s newest police officers. Seven other men and [...]

Bus Community

Artwork highlights the connection between transit, regional parks

Posted by Drew Kerr | June 20, 2019

Large, colorful monarch butterflies may give you a ride to a regional park this summer. Metro Transit has wrapped two buses, dubbed Nature Connectors, with a beautiful painting designed by Minneapolis muralist Greta McLain and created in her [...]