Kenilworth LRT Tunnel in Minneapolis.
Metropolitan Council
It's what passes for excellent news for a transportation construction project that is usually prefaced with the word “troubled.”
The managers of the Southwest Light Rail Transit project now are saying that the most recent...
In a photograph from Dec. 3, 2023, the West Lake Street Station on the Southwest Light Rail extension stays under construction.
MinnPost photo by H. Jiahong Pan
The Southwest Light Rail Transit project has faced its share of tribulations. Cost overruns....
Light rail track shown within the Highway 62 LRT tunnel.
Metropolitan Council
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Janet Moore on the Star Tribune reports Jim Alexander, the project director for the Southwest light rail line, informed the...
Using private contractors relatively than Metro Transit staff is a change in plans from what had been envisioned for the reason that Legislature approved a transit safety plan in May.
MinnPost file photo by Peter Callaghan
Metro Transit will engage a...
Light rail stations like Victoria Street in St. Paul are “split” on either side of intersections, extend across two full city blocks on either side of the tracks, and have low barriers by design.
MinnPost photo by Bill Lindeke
A transportation...
A pedestrian was struck by and trapped under a Green Line light rail train in St. Paul on Friday morning.
The incident, which resulted in serious injuries, occurred at University and Western avenues around 11:15 a.m., in response to Metro...
Met Council faces a bipartisan crisis of confidence, with each Republicans and DFLers within the state Legislature lambasting the agency over massive cost overruns, poor transparency and a scarcity of accountability on the Southwest project.
MinnPost photo by Peter Callaghan
Members...
Light rail track shown within the Highway 62 LRT tunnel.
Metropolitan Council
Welcome to the Glean, MinnPost’s twice-daily roundup of Minnesota news.
Josh Skluzacek at KSTP is reporting the Metropolitan Council, in partnership with Hennepin County, has resolved the $160 million funding...
Two men who admitted to beating a transgender woman last yr at a Minneapolis light rail stop, leaving her critically injured, avoided prison time under sentences handed down this week.
Keaten James Morris, 19, of Minneapolis and Kevin Dewayne York,...
Metro Transit deputy general manager Nick Thompson, legislative auditor Judy Randall, and Met Council chair Charlie Zelle shown during Wednesday’s hearing of the Legislative Audit Commission.
MinnPost photo by Peter Callaghan
It wasn’t a proper a part of the most...
Longtime St. Paul Democratic U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum is in search of one other term in Minnesota’s Fourth Congressional District and again faces May...
