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Metro Transit to Twins fans: Be patient boarding light rail on Thursday April 7, 2021 6:37pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Twins fans taking light rail home Thursday from Target Field following the season opener are being asked to be patient, as boarding on each train remains limited due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Starting Monday, Metro Transit expanded the number of passengers on each light-rail car to 33, with a maximum of 99 riders on a three-car Blue or Green Line train. That s half the riders allowed on the trains before the pandemic, but double the limit under recent COVID restrictions.
Passengers are still expected to wear masks aboard public transit.
Muni already has a zero-emissions fleet of overhead-wire electric buses, streetcars, light rail vehicles, and cable cars; roughly half of its fleet of 1,200 vehicles emit pollutants. After studying alternative fuels as a condition of their last major diesel bus purchase in 2001, it began to add hybrid buses to its fleet in 2007. The agency eventually bought more to completely retire that diesel fleet last year. Its latest hybrids have a GPS-controlled engine that shuts off moving entirely on electric power in neighborhoods with high concentrations of low-income populations and poor air quality. Muni hopes someday to convert those hybrids into fully electric buses by simply removing the engine.