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Posts in Category: METRO Green Line

Light-rail ridership continues to climb

| Nov. 12, 2015

Light-rail ridership continued to climb in October, continuing a historic year for the METRO Green and Blue lines. Nearly 1.3 million Green Line rides were recorded last month, beating the light-rail line's previous monthly high of 1.25 million [...]

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Green Line sets monthly ridership record

| Oct. 14, 2015

Nearly 1.25 million rides were taken on the METRO Green Line in September, a new high-water mark for the light-rail line. Average weekday ridership on the Green Line last month was 45,644 -- well ahead of the 41,000 average weekday rides that [...]

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Single-day LRT ridership tops 100K for first time

| Sep. 21, 2015

Single-day ridership on the METRO Green and Blue lines recently topped 100,000 for the first time ever. The milestone came on Thursday, Sept. 3, when there were a combined 100,909 light-rail rides. Nearly 64,000 rides were provided on the Green [...]

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Blue, Green lines top 1 million rides in July

| Aug. 19, 2015

More than 1 million rides were taken on both the METRO Blue and Green lines last month, pushing total ridership through the end of July to nearly 49.4 million. Ridership on all modes — local and express buses, Northstar and light rail — is up [...]

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At one-year mark, Green Line going strong

| June 15, 2015

For the last eight months, Aaron Martin has used the METRO Green Line to get to not one but two jobs – one at the Town Hall Brewery in Cedar-Riverside and another at the Oceanaire in downtown Minneapolis. The ease of his commutes is a near-daily [...]

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