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The Metropolitan Council and the FTA have issued a Supplemental Environmental Assessment/Amended Draft Section 4(f) Evaluation for the METRO Green Line Extension Project.

Longtime Council member was a nurse and single mother,  appointed to the Council in 1973. A key strength was her focus on long-range planning.

10 more rapid-bus lines will be built along the metro's busiest transit corridors. Advocates say rapid-bus service offers passengers a light-rail-like experience but is cheaper to build, maintain.

Community members and business owners have an important opportunity to help guide the development of the METRO Gold Line Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project.

The Metropolitan Council says developers have added $8.4 billion in investment along current and potential metro light rail corridors since the transit-ways were added to the Twin Cities landscape.

The Metropolitan Council says developers have added $8.4 billion in investment along current and potential metro light rail corridors since the transit-ways were added to the Twin Cities landscape.

The Metropolitan Council is considering new policies related to wastewater reuse, as an outgrowth of a community-based customer task force.

Looking at a photograph of the first group of Metropolitan Council members—appointed by Governor Harold LeVander in 1967—it’s impossible to miss the sole woman in the group.

Concentrated poverty is known to have a negative influence on residents' economic mobility, health, and overall well-being.