A few days ago, I decided I better get familiar with the public transportation here in the Twin City area. Since we only have one car with us here in Minnesota, public transportation will assist me in getting around the city when needed, instead of me driving Laura to work 25 min away and then to where I want to go.
I grew up in the sticks, where public transportation was the school bus and I only rode that for sports trips. We currently live about 7 miles from downtown, but still a well populated area within the city limits: (see picture we are at the base of the arrow and it is pointing to downtown Minneapolis.)
I’ll say that taking the publi
c transportation was quite the adventure for me. When I used to think of public transportation it was either the six members of my family piling into our 2 door (thee cylinder) Geo Metro, or the school bus… I was quite nervous, but figured it out with not too many problems. I did however end up calling my Father back in NY, and had him get on the metrotrasit.org website to help me figure out which bus I should take to when I needed to transfer buses in the downtown area. Thankfully I have taught my dad well and he was able to successfully assist me to get onto the 17B bus south and not one of the other 100+ bus routes I could have taken…. Downtown Minneapolis is beautiful and huge. I can say I miss having a forest for a back yard though! Anyway, I did not get too lost during this trip. Taking the public transit was actually more fun than I had feared. In non-rush hour times it is only $1.75 straight fee to go anywhere I want with a 2.5 hour limit before that ticket duration runs out. This adventure has helped me get acquainted more with the big city and directionally as to where the different inner city towns are. (Some have called Minneapolis the MinniAPPLE) When anyone comes to visit, this might be something I’ll have to show you!

Twin Cities Metro Area