Gare Metropolitan Council Logo 5991cb016d65e

Metropolitan Council

390 Robert St. North
St. Paul, MN 55101-1805
651.602.1000
Visit Company Website

More Info on Metropolitan Council

Metropolitan Council
Gare Metropolitan Council Logo 5991cb016d65e

The Metropolitan Council is the regional policy-making body, planning agency, and provider of essential services for the Twin Cities metropolitan region. The Council's mission is to foster efficient and economic growth for a prosperous region. 

Press Releases

ID 328695574 © Khairil Azhar Junos | Dreamstime.com
Two Blue Line light rail trains sit at a station.
The project includes new measures to support the surrounding community throughout the construction process.
Aug. 14, 2025
Metro Transit
The Metropolitan Council has endorsed Network Now, a framework for making transit service for Metro Transit, Minn., riders more available on busy corridors throughout the day on nights and weekends and between suburban communities.
Network Now will make transit more available on busy corridors throughout the day, nights and weekends, as well as between suburban communities.
June 9, 2025
Metropolitan Council
Metro Transit Gold Line opened March 22.
The Metro Gold Line is the first of three BRT lines Metro Transit will open in 2025 and will provide frequent all-day bus service across a 10-mile stretch of the Interstate 94...
March 25, 2025
Metropolitan Council
The Metropolitan Council will be launching its plans to develop a piece of land near its METRO Green Line as a part of a tentative developer agreement with the Saint Paul Housing and Redevelopment Authority in Minnesota and Flaherty & Collins.
The Metropolitan Council will be launching its plans to develop a piece of land near its METRO Green Line as a part of a tentative developer agreement with the Saint Paul Housing...
March 14, 2025
Metropolitan Council
The Metropolitan Council's budget plans for investments into Metro Transit’s Transit Rider Investment Program, supplemental security officers and safety ambassadors.
The budget plans for investments into Metro Transit’s Transit Rider Investment Program, supplemental security officers and safety ambassadors.
Jan. 8, 2025
Metropolitan Council
In 2027, Gold Line service will be extended to downtown Minneapolis, Minn., allowing people to travel more efficiently across the system.
In 2027, Gold Line service will be extended to downtown Minneapolis, Minn., allowing people to travel more efficiently across the metro.
Oct. 23, 2024
Metropolitan Council
Minnesota cities of Minneapolis, Robbinsdale, Crystal and Hennepin County voted to approve preliminary design plans for the Blue Line Extension..
The cities of Minneapolis, Robbinsdale, Crystal and Hennepin County, Minn., were given the opportunity to review early drafts of the design plans for station locations, track ...
Oct. 4, 2024
Metro Transit
Metro Transit and local partners are expanding the use of bus lanes, signal technology and other tactics to improve transit reliability across the region.
Expanded bus lanes and new signal technology is a part of a wider plan to bring on new bus rapid transit lines to keep buses moving.
Sept. 19, 2024
Metro Transit
Metro Transit TRIP Agents.
The agency notes crime was down 17.5 percent in Q2 2024 vs Q2 2023 while ridership has increased nine percent in the first half of 2024 compared to the first half of 2023.
Aug. 7, 2024
Metropolitan Council
Metro Transit Blue Line train.
The cities will review preliminary designs for the tracks, stations and structures that serve their neighborhoods.
July 26, 2024

News

Brandon Lewis
Joseph Dotseth (left) and Amanda Wanke (right).
Personnel updates from around the public transit industry.
March 13, 2026
Ramsey County
Ramsey County breaks ground on METRO Bronze bus rapid transit line.
The Bronze Line will span about 10 miles and include 22 stations, five miles of bus lanes and two new bridges.
Dec. 4, 2025
Metropolitan Council
A graphic rendering of the proposed Valley Station Apartments in Apple Valley.
The projects connect housing, jobs, transit and services to increase community livability.
Nov. 19, 2025
ID 328695574 © Khairil Azhar Junos | Dreamstime.com
METRO trains pass through a station.
Once complete in 2027, the new service will connect downtown Minneapolis to Eden Prairie and the region’s existing light rail.
Oct. 24, 2025

Articles

PSTA
PSTA meets with community members over its Connected Community Bus Network.
PSTA is updating its bus schedules and routes while Metro Transit has endorsed a plan to improve Metro Transit service by 40 percent.
March 28, 2025
GTran
GTrans has launched its Bolt on-demand service.
GTrans has launched its Bolt on-demand service and the Metropolitan Council has expanded its on-demand service area while Pueblo Transit has launched a new vanpooling service ...
Jan. 9, 2025
City of Huntsville
The city of Huntsville, Ala., received an $850,000 grant from the FTA as part of a pilot program for land-use study along a potential BRT corridor.
The Metropolitan Council received $700,000 in funding for the Blue Line Extension in Minneapolis, Minn., while the city of Huntsville, Ala., received $850,000 for a potential ...
May 6, 2024
Metro Transit
Lesley Kandaras has been named as Metro Transit's next general manager.
Kandaras has worked for both Metro Transit and the Metropolitan Council and will be the first woman to permanently hold the position of general manager.
July 28, 2023
Mass Transit/Mischa Wanek-Libman
A Metro Transit Blue Line train in downtown Minneapolis, Minn.
The recommendations by the University of Minnesota note the focus of the line’s development should be on the benefits it brings to the people currently living and working along...
July 3, 2023
Metro Transit
Officials with Metro Transit, Metro Transit Police Department and community organizations held an event June 1 to kick off the agency's Transit Service Intervention Project.
The project will bring together community partners to enhance social services outreach and improve Code of Conduct enforcement on the Twin Cities’ transit system.
June 2, 2023
Metro Transit
Metro Transit held a ceremonial groundbreaking for the Metro B Line bus rapid transit project, which will begin serving customers in 2024.
Metro Transit’s sixth BRT route promises to connect Uptown in south Minneapolis and Union Station in St. Paul with travel times that are 20 percent faster than current bus service...
May 9, 2023
Metropolitan Council
FTA Administrator Nuria Fernandez presented a check to Metropolitan Council and Metro Transit representatives for the METRO Gold Line BRT. The event included local and state elected officials including several of Minnesota's Members of Congress.
The 10.3-mile BRT route will feature 21 stations and will be the state’s first BRT route to primarily operate in bus-only lanes.
April 12, 2023
Metro Transit
The Metropolitan Council approved more than $80 million in funding for regional transit projects in the seven-county Twin Cities metro area.
The Met Council approved more than $80 million in funding for transit-related projects as part of its significant bump in formula funding from the IIJA.
Dec. 28, 2022
Metro Transit
Officials celebrate the opening of Metro Transit's fifth BRT line, the D Line, which will connect two major transit hubs - Mall of America to Brooklyn Transit Center - along an 18-mile corridor.
The 18-mile BRT route connects Mall of America, downtown Minneapolis, Richfield, Bloomington and Brooklyn Transit Center.
Dec. 5, 2022

Additional content from Metropolitan Council

Metro Transit
Metro Transit bus.
The service improvements being made are due to the success of the agency’s recruiting efforts of frontline transit workers.
July 24, 2024
Metropolitan Council
Metro Transit Blue Line train.
The document evaluates the potential social, economic and environmental benefits and impacts that may occur because of the design, construction and operation of the METRO Blue...
June 17, 2024
Metro Transit
Metro Transit's ridership has increased during the past year while crime has declined.
The agency saw a 13 percent increase in ridership in March 2024 from March 2023, as well as reported crime declined 7.7 percent from the first quarter of 2023 to the first quarter...
April 30, 2024
Metro Transit
Met Council approves expansion of Minneapolis' Metro Transit's electric bus fleet.
Metro Transit will receive 20 new 40-foot zero-emission buses to be used on its local service routes.
April 29, 2024
Metropolitan Council
Sherman Associates opened Longfellow Station Apartments in 2013 across Hiawatha from the 38th St. Station on the METRO Blue Line.
The Met Council found more than $16 billion in development occurred within a half mile of high-frequency bus and rail transit.
April 12, 2024
Metro Transit
A rendering of the Metro Transit Gold Line route.
The Gold Line is one of three new BRT lines Metro Transit will open next year, expanding the region’s network of Metro lines that provide reliable, all-day service and stations...
April 3, 2024
Metro Transit
The Metropolitan Council, ATU Local 1005 approve new labor agreement with wage increases.
Under the new contract, wages for all ATU-represented workers will increase 13 percent from July 2023 through August 2025, higher wage rates will be available for second- and ...
March 4, 2024
Metro Transit
An existing Blue Line train in Minneapolis.
The Metro Transit Blue Line Extension will extend the existing Blue Line light rail 13.4 miles north, connecting communities in North Minneapolis, Robbinsdale, Crystal and Brooklyn...
March 1, 2024
Metro Transit
The Metro Transit Gold Line BRT is currently under construction.
The new east metro bridge connects the cities of Oakdale and Woodbury and will have dedicated lanes for the Metro Gold Line bus rapid transit corridor, which is scheduled to ...
Nov. 28, 2023
Metro Transit
An existing Blue Line train in Minneapolis.
The funding will keep project work going through 2024, establishes a governance process for the project and identifies responsibilities between Hennepin County and the Metropolitan...
Sept. 15, 2023
Metropolitan Council
Met Council Vice Chair Reva Chamblis, right, welcomes speakers to an event at the Blue Lake Wastewater Treatment Plant announcing federal Climate Pollution Reduction grants. Other speakers included (left from the vice chair) Debra Shore, EPA Region 5 Administrator; U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN), U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rebecca Ann Crooks-Stratton, secretary/treasurer of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community.
The EPA’s Climate Pollution Reduction planning grants are designed to provide flexible support to states, metropolitan areas, tribes and territories in the climate planning and...
Sept. 5, 2023
Metropolitan Council
Metropolitan Council and Hennepin County have agreeded to funding agreement for the Green Line Extension Light Rail Transit Line.
The two entities have collaborated for several months to define funding sources and reach a resolution to close the remaining funding gap.
Aug. 22, 2023