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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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Metro Transit Gold Line opened March 22.
March 25, 2025
The Metro Gold Line is the first of three BRT lines Metro Transit will open in 2025 and will provide frequent all-day bus service across a 10-mile stretch of the Interstate 94...
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The Metropolitan Council will be launching its plans to develop a piece of land near its METRO Green Line as a part of a tentative developer agreement with the Saint Paul Housing and Redevelopment Authority in Minnesota and Flaherty & Collins.
March 14, 2025
The Metropolitan Council will be launching its plans to develop a piece of land near its METRO Green Line as a part of a tentative developer agreement with the Saint Paul Housing...
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The Metropolitan Council's budget plans for investments into Metro Transit’s Transit Rider Investment Program, supplemental security officers and safety ambassadors.
Jan. 8, 2025
The budget plans for investments into Metro Transit’s Transit Rider Investment Program, supplemental security officers and safety ambassadors.
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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.
Oct. 23, 2024
In 2027, Gold Line service will be extended to downtown Minneapolis, Minn., allowing people to travel more efficiently across the metro.
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Minnesota cities of Minneapolis, Robbinsdale, Crystal and Hennepin County voted to approve preliminary design plans for the Blue Line Extension..
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.
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
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.
Metropolitan Council
July 26, 2024
The cities will review preliminary designs for the tracks, stations and structures that serve their neighborhoods.
Metro Transit
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
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...

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PSTA
PSTA meets with community members over its Connected Community Bus Network.
March 28, 2025
PSTA is updating its bus schedules and routes while Metro Transit has endorsed a plan to improve Metro Transit service by 40 percent.
GTran
GTrans has launched its Bolt on-demand service.
Jan. 9, 2025
GTrans has launched its Bolt on-demand service and the Metropolitan Council has expanded its on-demand service area while Pueblo Transit has launched a new vanpooling service ...
City of Huntsville
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Metro Transit held a ceremonial groundbreaking for the Metro B Line bus rapid transit project, which will begin serving customers in 2024.
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...
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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.
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.
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.
The 18-mile BRT route connects Mall of America, downtown Minneapolis, Richfield, Bloomington and Brooklyn Transit Center.

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Recent changes in Twin Cities regions area of concentrated poverty.
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
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
April 29, 2024
Metro Transit will receive 20 new 40-foot zero-emission buses to be used on its local service routes.
Metropolitan Council
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.
Metro Transit
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
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
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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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 ...
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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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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...