Posted | Apr 22, 2024
Top left and bottom right: Crews repair rail breaks near the METRO Green Line's Fairview Avenue Station on Saturday, April 20, 2024. With embedded track, crews have to remove and replace concrete that surrounds the track. At top right and bottom left, crews in Bloomington replaced worn track sections on the Blue Line (May 2024). [...]
Posted | Apr 10, 2024
If you’re reading this, chances are you’re already riding transit at least somewhat regularly.
But there are a lot of people in our region who haven’t been on transit lately, if ever. In a recent regional survey, just 43% of those familiar with Metro Transit had ridden in the past six months; more than a third said they had no interest in taking transit. [...]
Posted | Apr 9, 2024
Clockwise from top left: Owen Young, who adopted the Blue Line's 46th Street Station, members of the Hamline-Midway Coalition, Nancy Ruhland at the Green Line's 10th Street Station, Hassan Barzani, and members of the University of Minnesota marching band's baritone horn section. [...]
Posted | Apr 1, 2024
The METRO Gold Line – the state’s first Bus Rapid Transit line to operate primarily within bus-only lanes – will open on March 22, 2025, project leaders have announced. The new line will connect Woodbury to downtown Saint Paul. [...]
Posted | Mar 22, 2024
Lynda Stanley, a lifelong member of Union Congregational United Church of Christ, and church moderator Cynthia Budd in front of an affordable apartment complex under construction on former church land next to their church, which is in the background. [...]