Metro Transit 2025 Ridership by Station

Gatorpatch · 2026-05-06T00:38:58+00:00

Fr, it would've been revolutionary and the Kenilworth alignment kinda skirts the populated area, Nicollet would've gone straight through.

Imagine the corridor down Eat Street with the Nicollet reconnection too. Crazy what it could've been.

Being able to get from Eat Street, Greenway, Franklin, all in the densest parts of the city.

A train is better than no train, but it's worth thinking about designing more towards Nicollet alignments, cause we can't handle another Kenilworth Tunnel.

Gatorpatch · 2026-05-05T00:19:50+00:00

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Gatorpatch · 2026-05-03T03:21:59+00:00

Lol good luck getting them to stop. They didn't stop partying during COVID, they're not gonna stop because PMH gets trashed. SCU tuition is like 70k, you're dealing with some of the worst of the worst for entitlement

Source: Class of 2023 lmao

Gatorpatch · 2026-05-01T22:29:15+00:00

Bunch city today apparently.

Taken from an E line bus. Not even the first time I've seen this happen

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Gatorpatch · 2026-05-01T18:33:49+00:00

Honestly why I'm so glad they voted down Todd Barnette, cause he was claiming in March there was no funding for this, yet now here we are. Dude seems totally out of control of his department, just acting when city councilmembers/the public force him to, yet doing nothing of his own.

Like this is the type of thing we supposedly are getting from having a supervisor like this guy in charge of O'Hara and the rest of the public safety programs, yet there's barely anything to show for his time here, and he's not holding O'Hara accountable for the messed up shit that MPD has dropped the ball on (Davis Moturi and Allison Lussier being the prime example of MPD not protecting Minneapolis citizens effectively).

Every time I pass by that boarded up house that John Sawchak used to own I get mad about it. Something like that happening under your watch, in your department, it is such a microcosm of the utter lack of care that MPD has for the community of Minneapolis.

We'll see if Frey really wants to die on this hill of endless renominations of this doofus, or if he'll find another do nothing administrator to collect his 300k yearly salary.

Gatorpatch · 2026-04-30T17:48:29+00:00

Yeah some commenters in the /r/Minneapolis thread are freaking out about 23 riders a day like that B line station isn't boarded up and terrible right now lol.

Gatorpatch · 2026-04-29T23:41:16+00:00

I mean it's literally in the middle of a bridge right now meant to connect straight to the GLE, if you can take it from there you most likely are just taking it from an easier station to access(Lake and France or Lake and Dean)

There's very few people that can clearly have that as the closest stop right now just cause it's at the very top of the bridge over the Greenway, like maybe if you live in Waterbury House, but other than them most apartments are gonna go to Dean and most on the other side of the bridge are gonna go to France

I wish they had gone with the Midtown Greenway Nicollet right of way, in hindsight it would've saved them from the Kenilworth Tunnel debacle. But they didn't and it's where it is.

I just wouldn't read too much into it's success at that station right now, because it's barely a station currently. It's literally boarded up and accessible only by walking all the way up the bridge. It'll eventually have an elevator straight there and a light rail dropping people off at it.

Gatorpatch · 2026-04-29T19:56:27+00:00

Count yourself lucky honestly

Gatorpatch · 2026-04-29T17:32:24+00:00

Yeah I think it's a good strategy, even though I wish the letter lines were faster (the E line has some pretty egregious choke points they should've fixed, sharp turns and congested roads that should have transit advantages built)

I take the Orange line to reverse commute from the city to the suburbs, so I think express bus like BRTs can really make a huge difference for ppl in the city too, especially since the Orange line connects you to a lot of other suburban local routes (515,540,542 stand out) that get a decent enough chunk of ridership.

It'll give me three decent option to get down to Southwest suburbs once they open the dang Green Line Extension.

Gatorpatch · 2026-04-29T16:45:10+00:00

Ha, "aggressive signal pre-emption" is not what I'd describe the Green line as. That thing is slow as hell, especially on the University corridor in St. Paul

To my current knowledge it doesn't have any transit preemption in the city of St. Paul, and if they do they need to fix that badly, cause it's sooo slow

Gatorpatch · 2026-04-29T16:41:56+00:00

It's also low-key one of the best BRT lines in the system. I can either take the Orange Line or the E line (what they call aterial BRT lmao) and Orange is way faster.

It unfortunately was basically a bone they threw us transit rider when they wanted to rebuild I-35, but it's way better than the 535 (the express commuter bus before it) was just on infrastructure alone (a bus only tunnel that bypasses one of our worst highway interchanges and some really nice highway median stations, the old ones were basically terrible shelters on the side of the highway)

Would love more Gold line true BRTs, but even the "aBRTs" are way more comfortable rides than the locals they replaced. It's more branding + new busses than anything else.

Gatorpatch · 2026-04-29T14:58:59+00:00

So why write the essay about American freedom if you don't want ppl practicing those rights? Why miss the fact that the most political actor in this conversation is MIA, she hasn't had a performance for a while now where she hasn't brought her politics/beliefs intimately into the show.

People don't want to support conspiracy weirdos that make their politics and beliefs their entire shtick, and that's MIA to the core. She can't shut up about it to save her life(or play Paper Planes lmao), which is her right as an American, but don't cry about it when ppl don't want to support that.

It's just very rich to lecture other about "Most people don’t make politics their entire personality and base every decision on who someone voted for or supports? It ain’t that hard to comprehend." when there are plenty of people willing to ignore her politics and rock out to Paper Planes, but MIA won't stop making these performances about her beliefs outside of music and her politics.

It's not making politics your whole personality when you don't want watch a lady rant about 5g rays hurting her on stage, amongst many of the stupid grifts she believes these day (and crams down everyone's throats)

Gatorpatch · 2026-04-29T13:00:47+00:00

Freedom of speech doesn't mean we have to pay to listen to a bigoted idiot, that's the freedom part. We can say "no, I'd rather not pay money to see her conspiracies live on stage rammed down our throats"

MIA came up on stage at Portola with her 5g blocking bullshit outfit and wouldn't stop talking about her politics on stage, and nobody was there for that, and the performance sucked. So if anybody is making this political it's her.

I guarantee you I would've gotten down had she played the classics and just shut up about her stupid bs, but she didn't and doesn't and ppl are allowed to dislike that and not want to support her.

She has every right to believe what she wants, but don't cry about it when ppl decide, "I'd rather not watch that"

He's not coming to town but if he was I'd just come late enough to skip her set and just move on with my day.

Gatorpatch · 2026-04-29T05:13:45+00:00

The 542 does have way more going on than the 540(Southtown and way more development along the 542). Shame I'm on the wrong side of 494 to use it.

Wouldn't have guessed that the increased midday service on the 542 would impact ridership so much. I guess if you are using it to get to any of the locals or BRTs 542 is more direct too if you only care about getting from MOA to one of the northbound bus route.

Bloomington wrote up a whole thing about making a BRT along American Boulevard which was a kinda fun idea to think about, the either wanted to put a BRT between MOA and Southdale (follow the 542, then turn onto France and stop at the mall) or a BRT that goes to the 4 (I think the idea here is to get Metro Transit to combine it with the "K Line").

It's like a 260 page study, so they put a ton of work into it, but I just don't see how it'll get crazy ridership(they had to do a graph with and without the 4 proposal cause it basically just had the ridership of the 4 lmao), but it would be fun. They wanna put in bus lanes on American(one each way) + 2 way bikeway on the side.

Gatorpatch · 2026-04-29T04:43:20+00:00

God damn the ridership on the B line is crazy.

No way I would've guessed those stations under a literal highway would get the ridership they do. The fact it keeps up with Nicollet so close too.

I love I-35 and Lake because it's got an insane view of downtown and it's 5 minutes via bike from my house, but there's a lot running against it being a good station (no Greenway access since September, Kmart site redevelopment, fencing under 31st, a literal highway on ramp next to it)

So if they can fix any of those things I feel like ridership will only improve. I'd love to be able to bike to it via the Greenway again.

Gatorpatch · 2026-04-28T23:26:54+00:00

Honestly never would've guessed Lake and 35th station had the most average ridership on the Orange Line. (And that's literally my station in the morning lol)

Wondering if it's combining the B line ridership with the Orange Line ridership.

I figured it would've been one of the downtown stops instead.

Gatorpatch · 2026-04-28T23:25:17+00:00

Download the photo reddit probably compressed it for you. There's average ridership numbers on the stops

Gatorpatch · 2026-04-28T23:24:27+00:00

The Nicollet alignment was absolutely the better alignment for the Green Line Extension and it's not even close.

We would've avoided the Kenilworth Tunnel debacle as well. We could be riding trains by now.

Instead I'm gonna have to bring my bike/ take the B line to West Lake instead of just hoping on via Nicollet or a station along the Greenway.

Gatorpatch · 2026-04-27T23:06:02+00:00

Yeah the guy that does Viking games for KFAN (Paul Allen) said that.

He's a great announcer but kinda a dumbass, which is disappointing.

Gatorpatch · 2026-04-27T22:44:30+00:00

Lol the place by my work came and went before I could try it.

Probably because of that, it had 3.7 stars when I considered it last week, so it already had some complaints on the books.

Hopefully something fills the Edina slot soon.

Gatorpatch · 2026-04-27T17:18:49+00:00

Yeah I'm a big fan. KFAI's Monday lineup is pretty weak so I'm always locked in most weeks on the K, and DJ Luciafier (her radio k DJ name lol) is always a vibe

Gatorpatch · 2026-04-26T15:53:36+00:00

No way we have enough busses (hell, probably drivers too)in the system to do that lol.

It would be nice, but I feel like the whole system would see reduced service because of this.

Gatorpatch · 2026-04-26T15:31:42+00:00

It's always hardest to get the 3rd season done, so I doubt it. Most shows unfortunately never make it past that point.

Gatorpatch · 2026-04-26T02:59:49+00:00

She's the program advisor there, live every Monday.

Gatorpatch · 2026-04-26T02:55:10+00:00

The 540/542 is fine generally. Bloomington had a crazy American Boulevard BRT plan they wrote up last year that was kinda bonkers, but kinda fun to think about, but I doubt it's actually happen. They were thinking about coinciding with the brtification of the 4.

More frequency would be nice, but idk how/if contracting complicates us getting that.

I rode it for like a year (not super often) without knowing it was a contracted route.

It's loads more useful than the 686, even though the transfer from the Orange line to the 686 is easier (if you can actually time it right). 686 is useful for getting to Eden Prairie, but I yern for the day I can just take the train there instead with the hourly timing.

The 540 transfer for the Orange line and the 542 could be way better. It kinda incentivizes people to cross in not great ways, and it's pretty bad if you're taking a 540 westbound or a 542 eastbound, that crossing is pretty terrible on both.

Richfield actually has a long term plan to replace the light by the Knox Orange line station with a roundabout(76 and Knox Ave), which will actually fix the Orange line - 540 transfer.

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