Rider's Almanac Blog

Many hands make snow work

Posted by Drew Kerr | Feb. 23, 2022

Responding to winter weather is a team effort. From our service garages to our Transit Control Center, employees are out early and often preparing for, responding to, and ultimately cleaning up any time snow falls. As snow fell on Tuesday, Feb. [...]

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Know Your Operator: Andre Williams

Posted by John Komarek | Feb. 10, 2022

Andre Williams is at Metro Transit to help people. “I’ve gone through some things,” Williams said. “Why not share what I’ve learned?” Over the course of his young adult life, he’s learned to work through tragedy. As a 13-year-old in [...]

METRO Gold Line On the METRO

Nearly $25 billion in development permitted, planned near high-frequency transit in region

| Feb. 9, 2022

A nonprofit developer seeking a site to build affordable apartments for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities knew they’d struck gold, as in the future METRO Gold Line, when the city of Oakdale pointed them to a location at one [...]

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After 50 years, “happy people” keep longest-serving employee coming back

| Jan. 28, 2022

You don’t stay at the same job for a half century without really liking your colleagues. “It’s the happy people,” said Revenue Processing Specialist Ian Stevens, who celebrated his 50th anniversary at Metro Transit on Jan. 27, 2022. [...]

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Know Your Operator: James Partlow-Hernandez

Posted by John Komarek | Jan. 25, 2022

Growing up on St. Paul’s East Side, James Partlow-Hernandez was no stranger to Metro Transit. His father and two uncles spent several decades working out of the East Metro Garage. “My family kept nudging me to apply for a job at [...]