Minnesotans looking for safe travel on New Year's Eve can ride Metro Transit for free starting at 6 p.m. The free rides are for any bus route and will run through the all scheduled stops.
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The free rides are aimed to help stop drunk driving.
Northstar rail and Northstar Link bus services are celebrating the opening of the new $13 million rail station in Ramsey with free rides. The Ramsey Station opens Wednesday, and all stations will offer free rides Wednesday and Thursday.
Passengers used Twin Cities transit 60 million times for the first nine months of this year. Metro Transit officials say that’s a four percent increase from the year before. Bus riders drove the increase.
There have been no alcohol-related deaths on New Years Eve the past two years in Minnesota. That's helped the overall trend stay on the decline. Ten years ago alcohol consumption contributed to 28 deaths in the state.
One man nudged another on a route 16 Metro Transit bus, which led to an argument that continued off the bus and ended with Desmond Deshawn Harper, 25, of St. Paul, dead in a stabbing, police said. Police have arrested Tim Davin Dortch, 38.
John Harrington, a former St. Paul police chief who retired after just one two-year stint as a DFL state senator, will become the new chief of police that enforces the law on Metro Transit buses, light rail and commuter rail. He'll oversee law enforcement on a rapidly growing network of light rail and bus transit in the Twin Cities.
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