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Posts in Category: METRO Red Line

Know Your Operator: Taj Kahn, South Garage

Posted by John Komarek | Feb. 24, 2022

In 1991, when Taj Kahn traveled alone to Moorhead, Minn., from New York, a fellow Pakistani student met him at the bus depot to bring him to college.     Thirty years later, he found himself transporting Afghani refugees as a bus operator [...]

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Mid-year Progress Report: On the Right Track

| July 24, 2013

From Brian Lamb, Metro Transit General Manager Like any good organization, Metro Transit lays out a set of annual goals and carefully tracks its own progress. Halfway through 2013, it's safe to say we're on the right track. Ridership is [...]

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Route 54: Over the river and to the airport

| June 27, 2013

Minneapolis customers are likely familiar with the METRO Blue Line’s service to the Mall of America and the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. But there’s an equally-convenient transit option St. Paul residents can use to reach the same [...]

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METRO Blue Line marks ninth anniversary

| June 26, 2013