General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data
These data include bus, light rail, and commuter rail service for the Minneapolis / St. Paul metropolitan area. This
includes service operated by Metro Transit, the Metropolitan Council, Maple Grove Transit, Plymouth Metrolink, SouthWest
Transit, the University of Minnesota, and the Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC). The Minnesota Valley Transit
Authority (MVTA) also provides service in the region; their service data are available separately.
Schedule and realtime data are provided in the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) format.
Static schedule data
The current schedule is available at: https://svc.metrotransit.org/mtgtfs/gtfs.zip
The upcoming schedule is typically available Thursday afternoons, effective the next Saturday at:
https://svc.metrotransit.org/mtgtfs/next/gtfs.zip
In general, schedule data are updated weekly, starting on Saturdays, and cover seven weeks.
However, schedule data are subject to change at any time. We recommend checking for a new feed daily.
It is always available at the above URL.
You can use the "Last-Modified" header to see whether there has been an update.
"Last Modified" can be used with the "If-Modified-Since" request header to return a 304
http response if the file has not been changed.
GTFS-realtime data
Metro Transit's GTFS-realtime feeds are refreshed every 15 seconds.