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Know Your Operator: Taj Kahn, South Garage 

Posted by John Komarek | Thursday, February 24, 2022 4:09:00 PM
In 1991, when Taj Kahn traveled alone to Moorhead, Minn., from New York, a fellow Pakistani student met him at the bus depot to bring him to college.     Thirty years later, he found himself transporting Afghani refugees as a bus operator [...]
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Know Your Operator: Andre Williams 

Posted by John Komarek | Thursday, February 10, 2022 1:31:00 PM
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 [...]
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Know Your Operator: James Partlow-Hernandez 

Posted by John Komarek | Tuesday, January 25, 2022 10:56:00 AM
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 [...]
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Know Your Operator: Duane Moore 

Posted by John Komarek | Thursday, January 13, 2022 8:00:00 AM
As a young man working at a local grocery store, Duane Moore had had enough of working long hours on his feet all day. He came across an advertisement for drivers at Metro Transit and applied. Today, he helps train other operators. But like [...]
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Know your operator: Michael Schmidt, South Garage 

Posted by John Komarek | Thursday, November 18, 2021 9:43:00 AM
As Michael Schmidt approaches his 8-year work anniversary, he remembers what he did to start his career at Metro Transit. “It took ten years of applying before I finally made it,” Schmidt said. During that decade, he discovered that what [...]
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