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Model Cities creates a new model near Victoria Street Station

Posted by Drew Kerr | June 7, 2018

Desean Isaac was among the first to move in when Model Cities opened the doors to its new mixed-use building in late 2017. One of the main appeals: The Green Line’s Victoria Street Station is just steps from the building’s door, allowing Isaac to [...]

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Piano puts emotion, diversity of transit passengers on display

Posted by Drew Kerr | June 4, 2018

Alexandra Norwick doesn’t spend her time on transit idly. While riding buses and trains over the past several years, she’s created more than 100 sketches of her fellow passengers – a resting woman with her head tilted back, a man with shaggy [...]

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Taking time to say thanks on Transit Driver Appreciation Day

Posted by Drew Kerr | March 16, 2018

Metro Transit’s 1,600 bus and train operators received extra kudos this week as supporters celebrated Transit Driver Appreciation Day. Transit Driver Appreciation Day got its start in 2009, when a group of riders in Seattle, Wash., wanted to show [...]

Community

A son’s memories lead to Wall of Fame honors

Posted by Drew Kerr | Feb. 9, 2018

For Metro Transit Safety Specialist Tim Bowman, White Castle is more than a place to get a steamed, five-hole hamburger. The restaurant is such a prominent part of his life, in fact, that Bowman recently wrote to the restaurant asking if they’d [...]

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Big snow met with persistence, praise

Posted by Drew Kerr | Jan. 23, 2018

The Twin Cities was hit with its biggest winter storm in seven years on Monday, bringing a foot or more of snow to several parts of the metro. Snow-covered roads and traffic delays caused widespread bus delays, with many operators pulling in [...]

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