Tag: Light Rail
DFL-controlled legislature hands $8 billion transportation bill to Walz for signature
A nearly $8 billion finalized transportation bill has cleared the House and Senate and is on its way to the desk of Gov. Tim Walz to...
Plea deals for LRT assault suspects, bias crime charge quietly dropped
Two suspects in a brutal assault and robbery at a Metro Transit LRT station that politicians and media widely implied was a bias crime...
Report: Met Council wasn’t transparent about Southwest light rail costs, delays
The Office of the Legislative Auditor said in a new report that the Metropolitan Council was not fully transparent with the public about significant...
‘Full of needles’: Metro Transit riders tell lawmakers about deteriorating conditions
Metropolitan Airports Commission associate vice president Mitch Kilian told lawmakers last week that the amount of “open drug use” on the Metro Transit system...
Suspects charged in Monday’s brutal light rail assault
One of the suspects in Monday’s brutal assault at a Metro Transit light rail station has been arrested six times since December and was...
Federal data shows Twin Cities light rail is the most dangerous...
(Center of the American Experiment) — According to federal data, people who decide to step on light rail in the Twin Cities are at...
REPORT: Met Council has not identified funding for 20% of Southwest...
It looks like the Southwest Light Rail Transit project might rival Boston’s Big Dig. The Big Dig was a tunnel mega-project in Boston that...
Light rail crime remains 200% higher than 2019
Crime on Metro Transit’s light rail remains nearly 200% higher than 2019, according to data obtained by Alpha News.
However, crime is down 24% from...
Teen who allegedly shot 15-year-old in Minneapolis was on probation for...
A teenager from St. Paul suspected of shooting and killing a 15-year-old in downtown Minneapolis had, at the time of the incident, been on...
In internal email, chief calls for flooding light rail with cops...
Bad behavior and criminal activity have become so endemic on Metro Transit's light rail that the chief of police is diverting already limited manpower...