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Posts in Category: METRO Blue Line

Plastic seats the new norm on light rail vehicles

| Sep. 9, 2021

The cloth seats customers once found – and sometimes avoided – on light rail vehicles are no more. This summer, light rail technicians finished swapping out more than 13,000 cloth seat backs and bottoms with new, custom-designed plastic seats [...]

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Rain reveals artwork at rail stations, bus stops

Posted by Drew Kerr | Aug. 26, 2021

Remember to glance at the pavement the next time you’re waiting for a bus or light rail train in the rain. You might be pleasantly surprised. The work of four Minneapolis artists was recently applied with rain-activated invisible spray at [...]

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Despite challenges, public facility workers endure, empathize

Posted by Drew Kerr | July 15, 2021

Julie Mickus isn’t easily rattled. And at 64, the former bus operator and mother says she tries to start each day by letting go of whatever may have upset her the day before. Her ability to stay positive has been especially helpful over the [...]

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Transit Police help move nearly 400 people into permanent housing

Posted by Laura Baenen | Feb. 16, 2021

Nearly 400 people have found permanent housing in the two years since the Metro Transit Police Department and the Metropolitan Council's Housing and Redevelopment Authority (HRA) partnered to help those sheltering on transit. The first move-in [...]

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Signal improvements improving light rail reliability

Posted by Drew Kerr | Jan. 6, 2021

Travel times on the METRO Blue Line are becoming increasingly reliable. The most recent reliability improvements are the result of work done on the south end of the 12-mile light rail line, between the Minneapolis-St. Paul International [...]

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