Rider's Almanac Blog

Rail returns to the Central Corridor

| June 11, 2014

Aaron Isaacs worked at Metro Transit from 1973 to 2006. A historian with the Minnesota Streetcar Museum, Isaacs is the co-author of Twin Cities by Trolley and author of Twin Ports by Trolley, which will be released in September. Isaacs also edits [...]

Bus METRO Green Line St. Paul

The sky's the limit

| June 6, 2014

A new stairway-elevator tower connecting street-level transit and the St. Paul skyway opened on Thursday at the METRO Green Line’s Central Station. The first person to take the trip up the tower: Rick Cardenas, who advocated on behalf of the [...]

Community METRO Green Line Safety Transit Police

Transit Police geared up for Green Line

| May 29, 2014

Guest post by Metro Transit Police Chief John Harrington University Avenue looks much different today than it did when I began riding Metro Transit buses as a patrol officer more than 20 years ago. The METRO Green Line promises to bring even [...]

METRO Green Line St. Paul Station Spotlight

Car-free and creative at Raymond Avenue Station

| May 27, 2014

When David Needham and his wife Alyscia moved from San Francisco to Minneapolis in 2013, they didn’t think they’d be able to sustain their car-free life. Eight months later, they drove south to visit family in Texas, left their car behind and [...]

METRO Green Line St. Paul Station Spotlight

Past and present converge at Victoria Street Station

| May 20, 2014

Sam Hayat opened his first car repair shop on University Avenue nearly 30 years ago. After struggling to sustain the business, he tried making a go of it at locations in south Minneapolis, Bloomington and Brooklyn Park. A year ago, he returned to [...]