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Metropolitan Council

· Saint Paul, MN · NTD ID 50154

Metropolitan Council reported 277 major safety and security events across 2014-2026, in which 0 people died. Against the service it actually delivered, that is 1.36 events per million vehicle revenue miles - worse than 19 of the 108 agencies big enough to rank, and 2.36x better than the national rate.

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Events per million miles
1.36
#89 of 108 agencies · national 3.21 · median 2.88
Events, all years
277
#68 nationally by raw count · 2014-2026
People killed
0
150 injured, 0 seriously
Service driven
84M
vehicle revenue miles, 2022-2024 · 114 events in that window
Its rate on a scale ending at the worst agency in the country (New Orleans Regional Transit Authority, 12.54). The tick is the national rate (3.21).
Who died on this system

No deaths reported on this system across 2014-2026.

Its events, by year

2014: 5 → 2025: 25 · peak 50

2026 excluded - it is a partial year.

Assaults on its workers
2014: 0 worker assault events 2015: 0 worker assault events 2016: 0 worker assault events 2017: 0 worker assault events 2018: 0 worker assault events 2019: 0 worker assault events 2020: 0 worker assault events 2021: 1 worker assault events 2022: 0 worker assault events 2023: 2 worker assault events (after the reporting change) 2024: 1 worker assault events (after the reporting change) 2025: 0 worker assault events (after the reporting change)

4 total · peak 2 in a year

The dashed line is the 2023 FTA reporting change. Bars after it are better captured, so the step up across that line is partly a change in counting, not only a change in the world.

What it runs
  • Other Non-Rail 228
  • Fixed-Route Bus 49

Share of its events by mode. Mode mix moves a rate: street-running light rail generates several times the events per mile that suburban bus does, so read this beside the rate above.

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Numbers on the chips are events per million vehicle revenue miles, 2022-2024.

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Generated 2026-07-13 02:56 UTC

Source: FTA National Transit Database - Major Safety and Security Events, joined to NTD Metrics for the service denominator

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