Metro Transit ran a three-day pilot last spring to see if lanes dedicated exclusively to buses would speed up rush-hour trips along traffic-clogged Hennepin Avenue in south Minneapolis. Riders ...

In a nod to these goals and data, Minneapolis and Metro Transit piloted a bus-only lane along a few blocks of Hennepin Avenue in Uptown this month to inform rebuilding of that stretch of Hennepin ...

Positive results seen on Hennepin spurred Metro Transit and the city to bring bus-only lanes to 7th Street. Several local and express routes travel on 7th Street, including Route 5, which is among ...

Updates and analysis from the recent Metro Transit schedule change that replaced the workhorse Route 21 with the B Line Bus ...

The Hennepin lanes should be implemented "by fall 2019," Metro Transit said, adding that at this point "Hennepin Avenue is also one of the slowest corridors in the region." Latest U.S.

The Route 21 is Metro Transit’s most popular yet slowest bus, drawing 7,000 average weekday riders along the corridor while traveling at some eight miles per hour.

BRT also tends to be much cheaper than building rail lines. The $75 million D Line was completed on time and under budget, says Katie Roth, the director of arterial bus rapid transit at Metro Transit.

A bus rapid transit route set to begin operations between Woodbury and St. Paul next year will eventually extend to downtown Minneapolis, Metro Transit announced this week. The Gold Line extension ...

Metro Transit’s Gold Line, a bus rapid transit line opening in March that will provide service between downtown St. Paul and Woodbury, will now extend to Minneapolis starting in 2027, Metro T… ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Metro Transit hopes to make commuting across the Twin Cities area easier by the end of the decade. The Gold Line, which is set to open in March 2025, will extend to downtown ...

A bus rapid transit route set to begin operations between Woodbury and St. Paul next year will eventually extend to downtown Minneapolis, Metro Transit announced this week. The Gold Line extension ...