Hastings awaits bus link to Twin Cities

Hastings awaits bus link to Twin Cities

The city has a $600,000 state grant to build a park-and-ride lot downtown that officials hope will become a stop for transit service.

Hastings has accepted a state grant to pave a parking lot near downtown with hopes the 100-spot lot will become a stop for a pilot bus service into the Twin Cities.

If plans work out, public transit would, for the first time, connect the city to St. Paul and Minneapolis by year’s end, officials said. Read more