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Posts in Category: D Line

As BRT progress continues, time to look further into the future 

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Posted by Drew Kerr | Sep. 3, 2020

From Charles Carlson, Director-BRT Projects Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the METRO A and C lines and many of our local bus routes continue to see comparatively strong ridership. Continued demand in these corridors underscores the need to make [...]

Community invited to take new look at Chicago-Lake Transit Center 

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Posted by Drew Kerr | March 5, 2020

Community members and a nationally acclaimed design firm are being invited to help imagine the next chapter for the Chicago-Lake Transit Center, one of the busiest boarding locations in the Twin Cities.​ The 13-year-old transit center, just [...]

BRT successes provide plenty of reasons to be optimistic 

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| Feb. 4, 2020

A customer boards a northbound Route 6 on France Avenue, where the METRO E Line will operate in the future. From Charles Carlson, Director of Bus Rapid Transit Projects Here and across the country, bus ridership is declining. But in [...]

Artist quilts riders waiting for METRO D Line  

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Posted by John Komarek | June 26, 2019

Local artist Carold Hancuh holds two of her quilted characters at a bus shelter near E. 48th Street and Chicago Avenue in the future METRO D Line corridor. ----- As the METRO D Line enters the engineering phase, local artist Carol Hancuh’s [...]

METRO D Line begins pre-construction survey 

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Posted by John Komarek | Jan. 8, 2019

Jared Gazda takes a moment to setup his surveying equipment at the corner of 38th and Chicago in Minneapolis. The information he gathers will aid in station construction, including ADA compliance and drainage. Before the first shovel breaks [...]

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