Rider's Almanac Blog

Mitchell named MTPD Officer of the Year

Posted by Drew Kerr | April 5, 2016

Chief John Harrington has talked a lot about community policing since taking the helm at the Metro Transit Police Department. Officer Leonard Mitchell has taken it to heart. And for that, he was recognized as Metro Transit’s 2015 Officer of the [...]

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Jan Homan: 40 years of service and a legacy that will last a lifetime

Posted by Drew Kerr | March 23, 2016

The first night Jan Homan reported for work – Christmas Eve 1975 – he was asked to do nothing more than keep an eye on the new Shingle Creek bus garage. A warehouse that would eventually be home to buses, mechanics and operators was for the [...]

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Route 11 joining Hi-Frequency Network

| March 16, 2016

As a Northeast Minneapolis resident, Angela Washington rides Route 11 nearly every day to get to and from her work as a caretaker in south Minneapolis. On more than one occasion, she’s missed the bus and found herself waiting. And with service [...]

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Know Your Operator: Renee Stafford

| March 11, 2016

Needing money to put herself through school, Renee Stafford taught swim lessons and worked as a lifeguard. But traveling between the University of Minnesota and her Mounds View home on Route 25, she was inspired to pursue a different line of work: [...]

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Techs take care of the technology behind transit

| Feb. 9, 2016

When Ed Anstett began at Metro Transit 36 years ago he was among four people who maintained the radios that had just been added to buses, providing a lifeline for operators who before that had nothing to rely on but payphones. Like the technology [...]