![]() ![]() “I’m not too sure until it comes into effect.” “ might be for the better,” said Percy McKee, who did not hear about it until he was interviewed while riding the 5 after coming from a restaurant job in Coon Rapids. “So they said that it was convenient, a convenience for who?” Either way that’s, like, seven blocks to my house,” said Smith. “Now with the 19 being cut, I either have to get off on…Golden Valley Road and Penn, or Plymouth and Penn. ![]() The agency isn’t sure if 24-hour service will ever resume.īut longtime Northside resident, poet, and transit rider Lorraine Smith is worried about what the D Line means for those with limited mobility like herself. ![]() It also won’t operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, which the 5 did pre-pandemic its operating hours would be 4 am to 1:30 am. The D Line will also use 60-foot accordion buses all day, which will be equipped with wifi and USB charging outlets, Like the A and C Lines, it will travel faster by making fewer stops, and riders will be able to pay before they board, and board through any door. The D Line will be different from the 5 in many ways. Another fast bus similar to the A and C Lines will start running on the Route 5 corridor later this year.Īs part of the agency’s efforts to move more people around-not just downtown commuters - in a faster, more reliable way, Metro Transit will start service on the D Line, which will run the exact same route as the Routes 5E and 5M branches, in December. ![]()
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