News & Events

To enhance regional mobility, the METRO Gold Line, a bus rapid transit line opening in March 2025, will be extended to downtown Minneapolis in 2027.  

Metro Transit and local partners are expanding the use of bus lanes, signal technology, and other tactics to improve transit reliability across the region. 

The Metropolitan Council’s American Indian Advisory Council delivered its recommendations for action to Met Council members in September.  

A group of nine artists from the seven-county metro region engaged residents young and old during the public comment period for the Draft Imagine 2050 regional development guide.  

A Metropolitan Council program that saved an estimated 30 million gallons of water last year is being recognized as a national leader by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The Metropolitan Council in September approved $1,050,000 in Livable Communities Act predevelopment grants for seven projects in five cities and one $50,000 grant for policy development. 

The Metropolitan Council’s Housing and Redevelopment Authority has earned the top rating for performance from the Department of Housing and Urban Development for the 20^th consecutive year.

More than 50 soldiers from the 407th Civil Affairs Battalion, United States Army Reserve, toured the Metropolitan Council’s Seneca Water Resource Recovery Facility.

The Metropolitan Council has approved a comprehensive transportation funding package.

In December 2023, the Metropolitan Council hired its first full-time tribal liaison and Native relations coordinator, Allison Waukau, Menominee/Navajo.

The Metropolitan Council has approved a 5.6% increase in the overall regional municipal wastewater charge for 2025.

Regional parks and trails in the seven-county metro region continue to be hugely popular, seeing 69.4 million visits in 2023.

The population of the seven-county Twin Cities region is growing more slowly in the 2020s than it did in the previous decade, but population continues to increase.