Price Cut on Northstar Rail Line to Encourage Ridership MINNEAPOLIS, MN--It's going to be cheaper for you to ride the Northstar Rail Line during the week. Metro Transit is hoping discounting fares will get more people to ride. Most fares will drop one dollar, the fare from downtown Minneapolis …
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Reclining seats, reading lights, plug-ins for laptop computers and other amenities. No wonder a survey of Northstar passengers yielded a 94 percent satisfaction rating. However, those glowing responses came not from Northstar Commuter Rail passengers, but from riders on an earlier Northstar transit line—the far more efficient and cost effective Northstar Commuter Coach express …
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Heavily subsidized train falls short of 2011 passenger goals and 2010 ridership numbers MINNEAPOLIS, MN--When the highly touted Northstar commuter rail line debuted with 20 percent fewer riders than supporters promised in its first year of service, transit officials promptly lowered expectations for year two. Metro Transit reduced the projected number of passengers from 897,000 in …
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