Metropolitan Council Meeting

METROPOLITAN COUNCIL MEETING Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Highlights:

• 2009-127 Authorization to Exercise Contract Options to Purchase Eight Thirty-Foot Transit Buses for Anoka County
• 2009-147 Authorization to Exercise Contract Options to Purchase 29 Articulated Transit Buses
• 2009-152 Procurement of Metro Mobility Buses
• 2009-156 Authorization to Terminate Transit Route 255
• 2009-161 Hiawatha Light Rail Transit American Boulevard Station,
• “Distracted Drivers: At What Cost?” (APTA Announces 2009 Bus Safety Awards)

APTA Announces 2009 Bus Safety Awards

APTA Announces 2009 Bus Safety Awards -- Recognizes top safety records and commitment to improving bus safety in North America

Bus systems operating 1 million and fewer than 4 million passenger trips
GOLD award – Southwest Metro Transit (Eden Prairie, MN)

Bus systems operating 30 million or more passenger trips
GOLD award – Metro Transit (Minneapolis, MN)