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St. Paul, MN 55101-1805

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The Metropolitan Council is the regional policy-making body, planning agency, and provider of essential services for the Twin Cities metropolitan region. The Council's mission is to foster efficient and economic growth for a prosperous region. 

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In 2027, Gold Line service will be extended to downtown Minneapolis, Minn., allowing people to travel more efficiently across the system.
Bus

Metro Transit to expand Gold Line BRT service areas in 2027

Oct. 23, 2024
In 2027, Gold Line service will be extended to downtown Minneapolis, Minn., allowing people to travel more efficiently across the metro.
Metropolitan Council
Minnesota cities of Minneapolis, Robbinsdale, Crystal and Hennepin County voted to approve preliminary design plans for the Blue Line Extension..
Infrastructure

Minnesota cities approve Blue Line Extension preliminary designs

Oct. 4, 2024
The cities of Minneapolis, Robbinsdale, Crystal and Hennepin County, Minn., were given the opportunity to review early drafts of the design plans for station locations, track ...
Metro Transit
Metro Transit and local partners are expanding the use of bus lanes, signal technology and other tactics to improve transit reliability across the region.
Bus

Minneapolis’ Metro Transit works to improve transit reliability

Sept. 19, 2024
Expanded bus lanes and new signal technology is a part of a wider plan to bring on new bus rapid transit lines to keep buses moving.
Metro Transit
Safety & Security

Crime decrease on Metro Transit’s system in Minneapolis, Minn., leads to improved ridership

Aug. 7, 2024
The agency notes crime was down 17.5 percent in Q2 2024 vs Q2 2023 while ridership has increased nine percent in the first half of 2024 compared to the first half of 2023.
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Infrastructure

Metropolitan Council asks cities to sign off on METRO Blue Line Extension route

July 26, 2024
The cities will review preliminary designs for the tracks, stations and structures that serve their neighborhoods.
Metro Transit
Management

Metro Transit to make bus and rail service improvements Aug. 17

July 24, 2024
The service improvements being made are due to the success of the agency’s recruiting efforts of frontline transit workers.
Metropolitan Council
Infrastructure

Metropolitan Council, FTA reveal Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement for METRO Blue Line Extension project

June 17, 2024
The document evaluates the potential social, economic and environmental benefits and impacts that may occur because of the design, construction and operation of the METRO Blue...
Metro Transit
Safety & Security

Minneapolis area’s Metro Transit highlights ridership improvement, decrease in crime

April 30, 2024
The agency saw a 13 percent increase in ridership in March 2024 from March 2023, as well as reported crime declined 7.7 percent from the first quarter of 2023 to the first quarter...
Metro Transit
Hybrid, Hydrogen & Electric Vehicles

Met Council approves expansion of Minneapolis' Metro Transit's electric bus fleet

April 29, 2024
Metro Transit will receive 20 new 40-foot zero-emission buses to be used on its local service routes.
Metropolitan Council
Management

Metropolitan Council study finds more than a third of building permits in Minneapolis are near high frequency transit lines

April 12, 2024
The Met Council found more than $16 billion in development occurred within a half mile of high-frequency bus and rail transit.

Articles & News

City of Huntsville
Management

Metropolitan Council, city of Huntsville awarded TOD planning grants

May 6, 2024
The Metropolitan Council received $700,000 in funding for the Blue Line Extension in Minneapolis, Minn., while the city of Huntsville, Ala., received $850,000 for a potential ...
Metro Transit
Lesley Kandaras has been named as Metro Transit's next general manager.
Management

Lesley Kandaras named general manager for Metro Transit in Minnesota

Kandaras has worked for both Metro Transit and the Metropolitan Council and will be the first woman to permanently hold the position of general manager.
Mass Transit/Mischa Wanek-Libman
A Metro Transit Blue Line train in downtown Minneapolis, Minn.
Rail

Met Council soliciting feedback on Blue Line anti-displacement recommendations

July 3, 2023
The recommendations by the University of Minnesota note the focus of the line’s development should be on the benefits it brings to the people currently living and working along...
Metro Transit
Officials with Metro Transit, Metro Transit Police Department and community organizations held an event June 1 to kick off the agency's Transit Service Intervention Project.
Safety & Security

Metro Transit kicks off Transit Service Intervention Project

June 2, 2023
The project will bring together community partners to enhance social services outreach and improve Code of Conduct enforcement on the Twin Cities’ transit system.
Metro Transit
Metro Transit held a ceremonial groundbreaking for the Metro B Line bus rapid transit project, which will begin serving customers in 2024.
Infrastructure

Metro Transit breaks ground on Metro B Line BRT

Metro Transit’s sixth BRT route promises to connect Uptown in south Minneapolis and Union Station in St. Paul with travel times that are 20 percent faster than current bus service...
Metropolitan Council
FTA Administrator Nuria Fernandez presented a check to Metropolitan Council and Metro Transit representatives for the METRO Gold Line BRT. The event included local and state elected officials including several of Minnesota's Members of Congress.
Bus

FTA, Metropolitan Council sign $239.3 million FFGA for Gold Line BRT project

April 12, 2023
The 10.3-mile BRT route will feature 21 stations and will be the state’s first BRT route to primarily operate in bus-only lanes.
Metro Transit
The Metropolitan Council approved more than $80 million in funding for regional transit projects in the seven-county Twin Cities metro area.
Management

Metropolitan Council approves $350 million in transportation projects

Dec. 28, 2022
The Met Council approved more than $80 million in funding for transit-related projects as part of its significant bump in formula funding from the IIJA.
Metro Transit
Officials celebrate the opening of Metro Transit's fifth BRT line, the D Line, which will connect two major transit hubs - Mall of America to Brooklyn Transit Center - along an 18-mile corridor.
Bus

Metro Transit opens D Line; its’ fifth BRT

The 18-mile BRT route connects Mall of America, downtown Minneapolis, Richfield, Bloomington and Brooklyn Transit Center.
Metro Transit
Ruby M. Daniels, Assistant Transportation Manager/Chair of Advancing Women in Transit, Metro Transit
40 Under 40

2022 40 Under 40: Ruby M. Daniels

Aug. 23, 2022
Ruby M. Daniels, Assistant Transportation Manager/Chair of Advancing Women in Transit, Metro Transit
Metro Transit
An existing Blue Line train in Minneapolis. [Metro Transit]
Infrastructure

Hennepin County Board and Metropolitan Council adopt revised METRO Blue Line Extension route

The approved route modification will allow environmental, design, engineering and anti-displacement activities to continue.

Videos & Resources

Metropolitan Council
Recent changes in Twin Cities regions area of concentrated poverty.
Management

Areas of Concentrated Poverty in the Twin Cities Region Endure

March 3, 2017
Since 2014, Metropolitan Council research staff have tracked trends and geographic patterns of poverty in the Twin Cities region — in particular, con­centrated poverty, which ...

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Metro Transit
Bus

Metro Gold Line set to open March 22, 2025, in the Twin Cities

April 3, 2024
The Gold Line is one of three new BRT lines Metro Transit will open next year, expanding the region’s network of Metro lines that provide reliable, all-day service and stations...
Metro Transit
Management

Metropolitan Council, ATU Local 1005 approve new labor agreement with wage increases

March 4, 2024
Under the new contract, wages for all ATU-represented workers will increase 13 percent from July 2023 through August 2025, higher wage rates will be available for second- and ...
Metro Transit
Infrastructure

Minneapolis area’s Metro Transit Blue Line light-rail project continues to be eligible for funding through FTA’s New Starts program

March 1, 2024
The Metro Transit Blue Line Extension will extend the existing Blue Line light rail 13.4 miles north, connecting communities in North Minneapolis, Robbinsdale, Crystal and Brooklyn...
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Infrastructure

Metro Transit cuts ribbon on new Bielenberg Bridge in Minnesota

Nov. 28, 2023
The new east metro bridge connects the cities of Oakdale and Woodbury and will have dedicated lanes for the Metro Gold Line bus rapid transit corridor, which is scheduled to ...
Metro Transit
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Infrastructure

Metropolitan Council, Hennepin County Board of Commissioners agree to $75.3 million in funding for METRO Blue Line Extension Light Rail Project

Sept. 15, 2023
The funding will keep project work going through 2024, establishes a governance process for the project and identifies responsibilities between Hennepin County and the Metropolitan...
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Management

EPA awards $1 million Climate Pollution Reduction planning grant to Metropolitan Council

Sept. 5, 2023
The EPA’s Climate Pollution Reduction planning grants are designed to provide flexible support to states, metropolitan areas, tribes and territories in the climate planning and...
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Rail

Metropolitan Council, Hennepin County agree to funding agreement for Green Line Extension Light Rail Transit Line

Aug. 22, 2023
The two entities have collaborated for several months to define funding sources and reach a resolution to close the remaining funding gap.
Management

Metropolitan Council creates new regional transit infrastructure division and leadership position

April 25, 2023
The new division will provide a more consistent approach to complicated and critical infrastructure projects that are significant in size and complexity and have substantial financial...
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Rail

MetCouncil conducts study on decline of Northstar rail ridership and operational challenges faced due to COVID-19

March 15, 2023
The evaluation results of the project offer context for future decision making for transit service in the Northstar corridor.