Transportation News & Events

Metropolitan Council members are sorting through the suggestions and feedback from community members, transit customers, and transit employees to improve safety on the region’s transit system.

The first light rail tracks have been placed for the METRO Green Line Extension near the future Downtown Hopkins Station.

The initiatives amount to more than $4 million in annual investment and are the next steps in an evolution of investments started two years ago.

Based on public input and nearly 600 survey responses, we developed a recommended plan, which will help set the vision for connecting bus service to the Orange Line.

We invite you to fill out a survey, attend a community forum, or both. The feedback will help shape critical policy questions related to transit policing and safety we explore later this year.

The project is cleared to enter the engineering phase of a federal program that could pay for 45% of the project’s cost.

Construction of the METRO D Line, a bus rapid transit line reaching from Brooklyn Center to Bloomington, will begin in early April.

The extension will connect the cities of Brooklyn Park, Brooklyn Center, Robbinsdale, Golden Valley and Minneapolis to the existing Blue Line light rail route.