1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to transportation; establishing requirements for a Metropolitan Council 
1.3 	transit service evaluation.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. METROPOLITAN COUNCIL TRANSIT SERVICE EVALUATION.
 1.6 	In the Metropolitan Council's Network Next transit service evaluation project, the council 
1.7 	must include:
1.8 	(1) an analysis of implementing arterial bus rapid transit service in a corridor that follows 
1.9 	marked Trunk Highway 65 in the cities of Columbia Heights and Fridley to 53rd Avenue, 
1.10 	and marked Trunk Highway 47 in the cities of Fridley and Spring Lake Park, that includes 
1.11 	recommendations for a service terminus location and general locations for transit stations 
1.12 	along the corridor; and
1.13 	(2) evaluation of regular route bus services that connect suburb to suburb destinations.

1.14 	EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICATION. This section is effective the day following 
1.15 	final enactment and applies in the counties of Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, 
1.16 	Scott, and Washington.