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.
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...
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...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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...
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’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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Morales III joins the Metro Transit Police Department from New York, where he spent most of his career in the New York City Police Department, managing all levels of projects,...
Metro Transit micro is a partnership between the Metropolitan Council, Metro Transit and Transit Team, whose operators will provide the service under contract.
With more than 20 years of experience in transit and transportation, Christine Beckwith will help guide the future of the Blue Line Extension as it moves towards the start of ...
This is the first official step in moving forward the route recommendation into environmental work and advancing design where further in-depth engagement and review will continue...
The project recommends extending the existing Blue Line light-rail transit from Target Field station along West Broadway Avenue in Minneapolis to County Road 81 in Crystal and...
April 19, 2022
Metro Transit/ Development Trends Along Transit report
The Metropolitan Council (Met Council) announced the METRO Gold Line project has now formally applied for federal matching funds from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) ...
The grants are part of the Met Council’s Livable Communities program, investing in communities to help them achieve their goals of economic prosperity, job creation, housing choices...
Members will help guide anti-displacement strategies and policy development by providing personal insight, local expertise and direct connections to communities impacted by the...
Achievement of this major milestone helps to clear the way for the transfer of the project from Ramsey County to the Metropolitan Council in late 2021 or early 2022.
CURA will draw from years of study on gentrification and displacement in the northwest suburbs to generate a research report that will outline the needs found in the community...
A recent report recommends implementing ideas from community and transit employees and continuing to engage those groups in an ongoing conversation about transit safety.
The Met Council has taken several steps with community partners and stakeholders to improve the feeling of safety and security while riding the transit system.
Legislators established Metro Mobility as a forecasted program in the state budget beginning in 2025 and BRT projects received a one-time $57.5-million appropriation.
This new service will improve and expand equitable access by providing fast, frequent and all-day service on the Route 5 corridor, Metro Transit’s busiest bus route.
Original plans for the light-rail project were scrapped last August following resistance from a potential freight rail owner, but officials vowed to find an alternative route ...
Following months of analysis and community engagement, Metro Transit finalized recommendations for the next three BRT alignments that will become the METRO F, G, and H lines.
The Transportation Advisory Board selected 56 projects for funding including highway, bridge, transit, bicycle and pedestrian projects in 36 different cities and townships.
Over the course of the 2020 construction season, the project staff and contractor, Lunda-McCrossan Joint Venture, encountered unforeseen conditions in the Minneapolis segment ...
The grant awards help make it possible for people to live near transit services that help them get to jobs, school, appointments, shopping and other destinations.
The light-rail project’s stakeholders expressed disappointment in shelving the plans to build on BNSF right-of-way, but are committed to finding a way forward to deliver the project...
Construction of the transitway and all stations is expected to be complete by 2021, with passenger service anticipated to start at the end of the same year.
New safety efforts include authorizing more hours for police to increase their presence on the system and requesting a transit ambassador program to address fare evasion.
The $194.4 million systems contract includes construction and installation of equipment such as overhead catenary lines, traction power and communication systems.
The Metro Transit Police Department has selected a Minneapolis, Minn. police officer as its next chief of police. Police Inspector Eddie Frizell, who brings decades of experience...
Local governments will compete this year for approximately $200 million in federal funds for local highway, bridge, transit, bicycle and pedestrian projects. The federal funds...
New Metropolitan Council Chair Alene Tchourumoff kicked off a 7-County Tour this week, in her effort to foster deeper partnerships with regional leaders.
This would be the first fare increase in nearly a decade (last increase was in October 2008) and a necessary step to address the increasing costs to providing transit and transportation...
The Metropolitan Council Chair Adam Duininck, transit advocates, business groups, and local officials have urged the House leadership to withdraw their proposed legislation and...
Since 2014, Metropolitan Council research staff have tracked trends and geographic patterns of poverty in the Twin Cities region — in particular, concentrated poverty, which ...
The project to build a light rail line connecting the suburbs northwest of Minneapolis to downtown cleared a major hurdle. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) gave the Blue...
The Metropolitan Council chose Siemens on Wednesday to manufacture new light rail vehicles for the Southwest LRT Project (SWLRT), which will expand access to more than 200,000...
A reverse commuter from northeast Minneapolis who works at one of the largest employers in Minnesota, the CEO of a family-owned company, a senior housing official and a pizza ...