Community
METRO Green Line
Minneapolis
Safety
St. Paul
University of Minnesota
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014 2:41:00 PM
Strong and growing ridership is the hallmark of the METRO Green Line’s first six-months of operation.
Customers have taken about 6 million rides since service began on June 14, including more than 1 million rides in both September and October.
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Bus
Know Your Operator
Posted by Drew Kerr |
Friday, December 5, 2014 12:57:00 PM
When Operator Mary Barnd picked up her first customers, she panicked.
As a 17-year semi-truck driver, Barnd had developed an innate sensitivity to others entering her private driving space and was taken aback when she started training and
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Bus
Transit Information
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Friday, November 21, 2014 11:14:00 AM
When Gary Bier began working in the Transit Information Center, his trip planning tools included a large wall map, a tape measure and a robust memory.
“If you were taking 20 calls a day you were really cooking,” Bier said recently. “Each of those
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Light Rail
METRO Blue Line
METRO Green Line
Safety
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014 1:10:00 PM
Metro Transit’s light-rail vehicles are becoming even more weather-hardened.
Pantographs that are specially-equipped to cut through ice on overhead wires are being installed on all 27 Bombardier light-rail vehicles and 32 of the newer Siemens
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Light Rail
METRO Green Line
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Thursday, November 13, 2014 2:40:00 PM
For the second straight month, customers boarded the METRO Green Line more than 1 million times.
There were 1,131,264 rides on the Green Line in October, up 6 percent from September’s total and a new monthly record. Average weekday ridership was
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