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Metro (Minnesota)

Index Metro (Minnesota)

Metro (styled as METRO) is a high-capacity transport network serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. [1]

63 relations: Apple Valley station, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Bloomington, Minnesota, Bombardier Transportation, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, Burnsville, Minnesota, Bus priority, Bus rapid transit, Cedar Avenue, Central, Minneapolis, East Bank station, Flexity Swift, Forest Lake, Minnesota, Go-To card, Hastings, Interstate 35W (Minnesota), Interstate 394, Lakeville, Minnesota, Light rail, List of Metro (Minnesota) light rail stations, List of North American light rail systems by ridership, List of tram and light rail transit systems, List of United States light rail systems by ridership, Low-floor tram, Mall of America, Metro Blue Line (Minnesota), Metro Green Line (Minnesota), Metro Red Line (Minnesota), Metro Transit (Minnesota), Metropolitan Council, Minneapolis, Minneapolis Streetcar System, Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, Minnesota River, Minnesota State Highway 55, Minnesota Valley Transit Authority, New York City Subway, Northstar Line, PATH (rail system), Proof-of-payment, Rapid transit, Red Rock Corridor, Richfield, Minnesota, Saint Paul Union Depot, Saint Paul, Minnesota, San Francisco, Shakopee, Minnesota, Siemens, Siemens S70, ..., Stillwater, Minnesota, Target Field station, Terminal 1–Lindbergh station, Terminal 2–Humphrey station, Traffic signal preemption, University of Minnesota, Washington Avenue Bridge (Minneapolis), Washington Metro, Washington, D.C., Wayzata, Minnesota, Weisman Art Museum, Woodbury, Minnesota, 24/7 service. Expand index (13 more) »

Apple Valley station

The Apple Valley Transit Station is a transit facility located in Apple Valley, Minnesota.

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Bay Area Rapid Transit

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), is a rapid transit public transportation system serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California.

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Bloomington, Minnesota

Bloomington is the fifth largest city, as of 2016 estimates, in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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Bombardier Transportation

Bombardier Transportation is the rail equipment division of the Canadian firm Bombardier Inc. Bombardier Transportation is one of the world's largest companies in the rail vehicle and equipment manufacturing and servicing industry.

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Brooklyn Park, Minnesota

Brooklyn Park is the sixth largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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Burnsville, Minnesota

Burnsville is a city south of downtown Minneapolis in Dakota County in the State of Minnesota.

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Bus priority

Bus priority or transit signal priority (TSP) is a name for various techniques to improve service and reduce delay for mass transit vehicles at intersections (or junctions) controlled by traffic signals.

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Bus rapid transit

Bus rapid transit (BRT, BRTS, busway, transitway) is a bus-based public transport system designed to improve capacity and reliability relative to a conventional bus system.

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Cedar Avenue

Cedar Avenue is a roadway that runs from Minneapolis to Northfield, Minnesota.

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Central, Minneapolis

The Central community in Minneapolis is located in the central part of the city, consisting of 6 smaller official neighborhoods, and includes Downtown Minneapolis, the central business district.

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East Bank station

East Bank is a light rail station along the Green Line in Minneapolis, Minnesota, located on Washington Avenue on the East Bank campus of the University of Minnesota.

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Flexity Swift

The Flexity Swift is a series of urban and inter-urban tram, light rail and light metro vehicles manufactured by Bombardier Transportation.

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Forest Lake, Minnesota

Forest Lake is a city in Washington County, Minnesota, United States.

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Go-To card

The Go-To card is a contactless smart card used to pay fares for bus, light rail, and commuter rail lines operated by Metro Transit and other transit agencies in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota.

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Hastings

Hastings is a town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England, east of the county town of Lewes and south east of London.

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Interstate 35W (Minnesota)

Interstate 35W (I-35W) is an Interstate Highway in the U.S. state of Minnesota, passing through downtown Minneapolis.

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Interstate 394

Interstate 394 (I-394) is an east–west Interstate Highway spur route in Hennepin County in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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Lakeville, Minnesota

Lakeville is a city in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States.

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Light rail

Light rail, light rail transit (LRT), or fast tram is a form of urban rail transport using rolling stock similar to a tramway, but operating at a higher capacity, and often on an exclusive right-of-way.

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List of Metro (Minnesota) light rail stations

Metro is a public transportation network consisting of light rail and bus rapid transit services covering the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area.

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List of North American light rail systems by ridership

The following is a list of all light rail systems in North America, ranked by ridership.

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List of tram and light rail transit systems

The following is a list of cities that have current tram/streetcar (including heritage trams/heritage streetcars), or light rail systems as part of their regular public transit systems.

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List of United States light rail systems by ridership

The following is a list of all light rail systems in the United States, ranked by ridership. Also included are those urban streetcar/trolley systems that are providing regular public transit service (i.e. operating year-round and at least five days/week).

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Low-floor tram

A low-floor tram is a tram that has no stairsteps between one or more entrances and part or all of the passenger cabin.

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Mall of America

Mall of America (commonly, locally known as "MOA") is a shopping mall located in Bloomington, Minnesota, United States (a suburb of the Twin Cities).

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Metro Blue Line (Minnesota)

The Metro Blue Line (formerly called the Hiawatha Line) is a light rail line in Hennepin County, Minnesota that extends from downtown Minneapolis to the southern suburb of Bloomington.

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Metro Green Line (Minnesota)

The Metro Green Line (formerly called the Central Corridor) is an light rail line that connects the central business districts of Minneapolis and Saint Paul in Minnesota as well as the University of Minnesota.

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Metro Red Line (Minnesota)

The METRO Red Line, previously known as the Cedar Avenue Bus Rapid Transitway, is a bus line between the Twin Cities suburbs of Bloomington, Minnesota and Apple Valley, Minnesota.

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Metro Transit (Minnesota)

Metro Transit is the primary public transportation operator in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area of the U.S. state of Minnesota and the largest operator in the state.

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Metropolitan Council

The Metropolitan Council, commonly abbreviated Metro Council, is the regional governmental agency and metropolitan planning organization in Minnesota serving the Twin Cities seven-county metropolitan area.

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Minneapolis

Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.

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Minneapolis Streetcar System

The Minneapolis Streetcar System is a proposed streetcar system for the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Minneapolis–Saint Paul

Minneapolis–Saint Paul is a major metropolitan area built around the Mississippi, Minnesota and St. Croix rivers in east central Minnesota.

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Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport

Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, also, less commonly known as Wold–Chamberlain Field, is a joint civil-military public use international airport.

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Minnesota River

The Minnesota River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 332 miles (534 km) long, in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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Minnesota State Highway 55

Minnesota State Highway 55 (MN 55) is a highway in west-central, central, and east-central Minnesota, which runs from the North Dakota state line near Tenney and continues east and southeast to its eastern terminus at its intersection with U.S. Highway 61 in Hastings.

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Minnesota Valley Transit Authority

The Minnesota Valley Transit Authority, also known by the acronym MVTA, is a public transportation agency that provides fixed-route and demand-responsive public bus services between various communities in the southern portion of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area, and to select destinations within Minneapolis and St.

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New York City Subway

The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system owned by the City of New York and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, a subsidiary agency of the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).

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Northstar Line

The Northstar Line is a commuter rail route in the US state of Minnesota.

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PATH (rail system)

Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) is a rapid transit system serving Newark, Harrison, Hoboken, and Jersey City in metropolitan northern New Jersey, as well as lower and midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Proof-of-payment

Proof-of-payment (POP) or proof-of-fare (POF) is an honor-based fare collection system used on many public transportation systems.

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Rapid transit

Rapid transit or mass rapid transit, also known as heavy rail, metro, MRT, subway, tube, U-Bahn or underground, is a type of high-capacity public transport generally found in urban areas.

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Red Rock Corridor

The Red Rock Corridor is a proposed bus rapid transit transitway in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul.

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Richfield, Minnesota

Richfield is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States.

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Saint Paul Union Depot

Saint Paul's Union Depot is an historic railroad station and intermodal transit hub in the Lowertown neighborhood of the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.

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Saint Paul, Minnesota

Saint Paul (abbreviated St. Paul) is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Shakopee, Minnesota

Shakopee is a city in and the county seat of Scott County, Minnesota.

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Siemens

Siemens AG is a German conglomerate company headquartered in Berlin and Munich and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe with branch offices abroad.

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Siemens S70

The Siemens S70 or Avanto is a low-floor light rail vehicle (LRV), streetcar, or tram manufactured by Siemens Mobility, a division of Siemens AG.

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Stillwater, Minnesota

Stillwater is a city in Washington County, Minnesota across the St. Croix River from the state of Wisconsin.

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Target Field station

Target Field station (formerly known during construction under the names of Minneapolis Intermodal Station, Downtown Minneapolis Ballpark station and The Interchange) is a multimodal commuter train and light rail station in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Terminal 1–Lindbergh station

The Terminal 1–Lindbergh station is a light rail station on the Metro Blue Line.

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Terminal 2–Humphrey station

Terminal 2–Humphrey is a light rail station is on the Metro Blue Line.

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Traffic signal preemption

Traffic signal preemption (also called traffic signal prioritization) is a type of system that allows the normal operation of traffic lights to be preempted.

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University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (often referred to as the University of Minnesota, Minnesota, the U of M, UMN, or simply the U) is a public research university in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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Washington Avenue Bridge (Minneapolis)

The Washington Avenue Bridge carries County Road 122 and the METRO Green Line light rail across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota and connects the East Bank and West Bank portions of the University of Minnesota's main campus.

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Washington Metro

The Washington Metro, known colloquially as Metro and branded Metrorail, is the heavy rail rapid transit system serving the Washington metropolitan area in the United States.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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Wayzata, Minnesota

Wayzata is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States.

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Weisman Art Museum

The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum is an art museum located on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis.

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Woodbury, Minnesota

Woodbury is a suburb of St.

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24/7 service

In commerce and industry, 24/7 or 24-7 service (usually pronounced "twenty-four seven") is service that is available any time and, usually, every day.

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Redirects here:

METRO (Minnesota), Minneapolis LRT, Minneapolis Light Rail, Minneapolis-Saint Paul LRT, Twin Cities Light Rail, Twin Cities light rail.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_(Minnesota)

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