Five top officials with Metro Transit and the Metropolitan Council will ride the metro’s two light rail lines throughout this week as a part of their first-ever “Listening Sessions Tour,” an effort to attach with on a regular basis...
After taking a gander at passenger demand, Metro Transit is extending its Recent Yr’s Eve light-rail schedule so the ultimate trains of the night leave downtown St. Paul and downtown Minneapolis past midnight.
The schedule had initially called for the...
For Latest 12 months’s Eve revelers seeking to avoid driving within the Twin Cities, there’s excellent news and bad news on the horizon. First the excellent news: On Sunday, Metro Transit customers can ride free from 6 p.m. to...
Stuck in stop-and-go planning since no less than 1998, the Riverview Corridor could also be chugging toward a significant turning point in the brand new 12 months.
The vision calls for a contemporary transit corridor — think train or bus...
In 2017, Metro Transit received a $1.7 million federal grant to purchase eight battery-electric accordion buses to be used on the C Line, a rapid bus line that runs from downtown Minneapolis to Brooklyn Center.
Photo by H. Jiahong Pan
In...
With a citation book in hand, Metro Transit community service officers Vy Vang and Chi Vang boarded a westbound light-rail train on the downtown St. Paul Union Depot station on a mission to discourage — but not detain —...
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...
Starting Monday, Metro Transit’s community service officers will issue citations starting from $35 to $100 to transit riders who fail to pay their fare, with a heavy concentrate on the 2 light rail lines that traverse Minneapolis and St....
Interstate 94 might be closed over the weekend between St. Paul and Oakdale while construction crews on the Metro Gold Line project set beams for a brand new pedestrian bridge over the freeway in St. Paul.
The closure starts at...
The Molson Coors Free Rides program will probably be back again Sunday with free rides on Metro Transit buses and trains for the Vikings vs. Saints game at U.S. Bank Stadium.
The free rides will probably be available from 10...
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...
