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How We Roll: Ed Alvarez, Facilities Technician

Posted by jennasbennett | June 13, 2017

Many Metro Transit employees are committed to sustainable transportation, riding the bus or train, biking or walking to work and other destinations across the region. These “How We Roll” profiles are a chance to illustrate how much we have [...]

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Awards recognize sustainable transportation leaders

Posted by jennasbennett | May 4, 2017

When Augsburg University began building its new Hagfors Center for Science, Business, and Religion in 2015, the college lost about 20 percent of the 1,000 parking spaces at its West Bank campus. The sudden loss in parking led Beth Reissenweber, [...]

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Vanpoolers commended for commitment, consistency

| Nov. 6, 2013

For the last three decades, Kathryn Voeltz has commuted nearly 60 miles from her home in Spring Valley, Wis. to downtown Minneapolis. Never in that time has she had to make the trek alone. Instead of driving solo, Voeltz has joined with other [...]

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Enjoying the shared ride

| Sep. 30, 2013

When Jan Kaster’s knees began to go and she found it too difficult to use the bus, she thought she might have to retire early. But the Thomson Reuters editor found a way to keep working: she joined a carpool. Using Metro Transit’s Carpool [...]

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The Love Bus

| July 18, 2013

Andrew Humphries didn’t get a name. But he had learned enough over the course of a short bus ride to guess how he could find the girl he’d met while riding Route 6, the Italian he couldn’t seem to get out of his mind. The next day, he found [...]