page_title: Rochester, Minnesota
section_title: Transportation
hierarchical_section_title: Rochester, Minnesota / Transportation
caption_attribution_description: English: Bike rack on Rochester City Bus
context_page_description: Rochester is a city founded in 1854 in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Olmsted County located on the Zumbro River's south fork in Southeast Minnesota. It is Minnesota's third-largest city and the largest city located outside the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of 2018, the Rochester metropolitan area had a population estimated at 219,802. According to the 2010 United States Census the city had a population of 106,769. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated that the 2019 population was 118,935. It is the home of the Mayo Clinic and a major IBM facility, one of the company's largest at its peak. The city has long been rated as one of the best places to live in the United States by multiple publications such as Money.
context_section_description: Rochester is served by three U.S. highways (U.S. 14, U.S. 52, and U.S. 63), and the southern edge of Rochester is skirted by Interstate Highway 90 and State Highway 30.  Olmsted County Highway 22 is also a main highway in the city. A combination of skyways and subterranean walkways link most downtown buildings, which residents often use to avoid harsh winter weather conditions. Public bus transit is run by Rochester Public Transit.  Its operations are carried out by First Transit. The city Rochester encourages biking through its numerous trails and to facilitate the biking program all the city buses have bike carrier for easy transportation of bikes.
  Rochester International Airport is located seven miles south of downtown. The airport is the second busiest commercial airport in Minnesota.  It has direct flights to Atlanta, Chicago, and Minneapolis, with occasional charter flights servicing Riverside Resort in Laughlin, Nevada.
  Rochester has a shuttle service connecting to the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport by Rochester Shuttle Service and Groome Transportation (formerly Go Rochester Direct).
  Rochester's last passenger rail service, to Chicago to the southeast and Rapid City, South Dakota to the west, ended when the Chicago and North Western Railway's Rochester 400 streamliner ended service in 1963.  The closest Amtrak station is at Winona, Minnesota, 45 miles to the east.
caption: Bike on Rochester city bus
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