Metro Transit will rebuild old Blue Line while pondering its extension
Everything from stations and train cars to tracks and signals need upgrading 20 years after the Blue Line’s debut.
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Everything from stations and train cars to tracks and signals need upgrading 20 years after the Blue Line’s debut.
The TRIP agents are training on the system, and Metro Transit is looking into eliminating the problematic middle cars.
Metro Transit added more than 400 bus drivers last year as service is slowly restored following a precipitous decline during the pandemic, and as new bus-rapid transit lines are...
Like most graduations, this one featured balloons, a deluge of photos, well wishes from relatives and friends, solemn words of wisdom — and sheet cake with "Congratulations Graduates" inscribed in sugary cursive. But this first-of-its-kind ceremony celebrated 22 bus drivers who received their diplomas Tuesday at Metro Transit's North Loop Garage in Minneapolis. They will soon take wheel as ...
Contract workers, rather than union Metro Transit staff as initially planned, are expected to be on platforms, buses and trains during the first quarter of 2024 under a safety plan passed in May.