In the News
Know Your Operator
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Friday, October 18, 2013 12:35:00 PM
Two longtime Metro Transit employees were honored with awards from the Minnesota Public Transportation Association this week.
Tony Taylor, a 34-year Safe Operator based at Heywood Garage, was named the Minnesota Bus Operator of the Year, which
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Minneapolis
Route of the Week
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Friday, October 18, 2013 10:00:00 AM
Jeff Odegard estimates it would take a half hour for him to drive from his Golden Valley home to the Gibbs Museum in Falcon Heights, where he works as an historic site interpreter.
Instead, Odegard boards a Route 14 bus to downtown
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Bus
Fares
Good Question
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Thursday, October 17, 2013 9:15:00 AM
This week’s Good Question comes from Andrew Balfour, who emailed to ask: “Why are transfers allowed?
Why not just have payment required for each trip and a lower per-trip cost instead?”
Metro Transit operates nearly 130 routes in 90
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A Line BRT
Bus
METRO Blue Line
Route of the Week
St. Paul
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Friday, October 11, 2013 2:15:00 PM
After working 10-hour, overnight shifts at St. Joseph’s Hospital, the last thing Donna Cooley wants to do is get in her car and deal with traffic. So she takes the Route 74 bus instead.
“It’s just so much easier to let someone else do the driving
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Light Rail
METRO Blue Line
METRO Green Line
Safety
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Friday, October 11, 2013 10:00:00 AM
Shortly after 9 a.m. on a recent Monday morning, Shawn Jensen and two other rail maintainers got off a light-rail train at the METRO Blue Line’s Target Field Station and began slowly walking south.
Stepping down the line through downtown
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