Metro Transit Says It's Looking For Bus Drivers
Metro Transit officials said Wednesday they're looking to hear at least 100 bus drivers to add to its workforce.
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Metro Transit officials said Wednesday they're looking to hear at least 100 bus drivers to add to its workforce.
Two boys are banned from Metro Transit for one month after concerned passengers and witnesses called police saying they were armed.
A 55-year-old man died Friday evening, authorities say, after his car collided with a light-rail train and was pushed about 500 feet down a south Minneapolis track while on fire.
Metro Transit officials are on the scene of an accident involving a vehicle and Minneapolis light rail car.
Authorities say light rail service in downtown Minneapolis resumed just before 1 p.m. Thursday after being disrupted because of a downed power line.
No one was seriously injured after a commercial truck collided with a light rail train Tuesday afternoon at Fifth Avenue in downtown Minneapolis, according to Metro Transit.
Post offices as well as all local, state and federal government offices will be closed Monday to mark Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.
More than 81 million customers boarded Metro Transit buses and trains in 2012 – an increase of 165,044 rides over 2011.
Metro transit employees are going to work Tuesday morning knowing they have a new contract under their belt.
Employees with Metro Transit will vote on a new deal on Monday in an effort to avoid a work stoppage.
Step into the grand old neoclassical building in St. Paul's Lowertown and you're immediately taken back to a time when coal-puffing locomotives carried passengers from the Twin Cities to points far and wide.
A daylong celebration is planned Saturday for the reopening of St Paul's Union Depot.
The historic Union Depot in St. Paul is undergoing a $243 million restoration, so that it can be used again as a mass-transit hub.
Metro Transit will once again be offering free bus and light rail rides to Minnesota Timberwolves fans before and after every home game this forthcoming season, according to the team.
The Ramsey County Attorney's Office announced they are not pursuing criminal charges over the July stabbing death of a 25-year-old St. Paul man.
Kacey Gregerson in Brooklyn Park submitted this Good Question: How do the bus routes get their names? And from Leah in Minnetonka: Why can't we tear off mattress tags?
The new light rail train that will carry passengers from St. Paul to Minneapolis is undergoing testing along the Hiawatha light rail line.
This Monday marks the first day back in the classroom for thousands of kids in the Twin Cities. It's the first day of school in Minneapolis.
The next generation of hybrid-electric public transit buses was unveiled on Day 2 of the Minnesota State Fair on Friday. According to Metro Transit officials, two new hybrid-electric buses will operate on routes serving the heart of downtown Minneapolis and surrounding communities. They were funded by a $1.2 million federal grant and were built in-state.
When high school students go back to school in Minneapolis in a little more than a week, many of them won't have the option of riding the school bus. Instead they'll have to take the city bus or light rail to school starting Aug. 27.
Crime is a serious issue at one stop on the light rail. And police have a new tactic to stop it.
In an attempt to get more people riding public transit, Metro Transit officials said Monday the rates to ride the Northstar Commuter Rail Line will be lowered on Aug. 1.
Starting Friday, Minneapolis Police and the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office (HCSO) are partnering up to tackle the problematic bar close hours in downtown Minneapolis.
The Hiawatha light-rail line will be shut down between Target Field and Franklin Avenue this weekend as crews perform construction and maintenance, Metro Transit says.
The clang-clang-clang of the "trolley" will be replaced by the beep-beep-beep of the Metro Transit bus along part of the Hiawatha Avenue route this weekend.
