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Posts in Category: METRO Green Line

Career Tracks: Dave Hanson, assistant director of field operations - bus

Posted by John Komarek | March 24, 2022

The Metropolitan Council announced today that the METRO Blue Line LRT will be extended to the Moon. The extension will add an additional 238,900 miles of track alongside existing NASA right of way, and add 3 more stations to the south end of the [...]

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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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Train operator Latina Laramee marks personal milestones this Mother’s Day

Posted by Laura Baenen | May 4, 2021

For Mother’s Day, Train Operator Latina Laramee of Fridley can celebrate herself this year. A single mother, Laramee landed a bus operator job with Metro Transit in 2011. The change allowed her to have one job instead of three, while still [...]

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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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