There is no better way to get to Target Field to cheer for the Twins baseball team than on the light rail. Avoiding taxi prices, traffic and parking fees are just a few reasons why everyone loves the Twin Cities light rails. Tickets for both of these light rails are inexpensive, and their convenient stops take you to the best hangout spots in town. Paul International Airport, ending at Mall of America in Bloomington, while the Green Line travels through St. The Blue Line travels through Minneapolis and the Minneapolis-St. Bank Stadium, the light rails split, wishing each other a farewell as they go their separate ways.
Both the Blue and Green light rail stations begin at Target Field and go to the same stops until they get to the U.S. Initial estimates are of more than 6,000 daily riders along the line, with ridership expected to grow.Whether you’re here to cheer your heart out at the Twin’s games, visit a few college or shop ‘til you drop at Mall of America, the MetroTransit Blue and Green Line lights rails are one of the best ways to get around the Twin Cities. Ramsey and Washington counties are picking up about half the cost, with the Federal Transit Administration and some local contributions making up the rest. Passenger service is expected to start in 2025. Utility relocation will likely start this spring, and full-fledged construction of the transitway and stations later this year. The engineering and planning work means that the project is ready to go out for construction bids. One of the Gold Line stops in Oakdale has already attracted an apartment development of 71 units, many of which will be designed for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Yoder said that’s still happening, years after the Blue Line and Green Line trains started service. As that network builds up, there’s more investment.”
Metropolitan Council planner Amy Yoder said there are already plans for more than $1 billion of development along the route, much of it for multi-family housing, in the expectation that people will want to live with easy access to transit.Īnd Yoder said there’s likely to be more, if other projects are any indication: “In communities where there’s enough density, and enough resources, that creates kind of a feedback loop, with high-quality transit. We already see all kinds of development coming in and there’s much more planned.” “It’s much more about connecting everyone in between. “It’s definitely not just a commuter line,” said Beckwith. Paul, a few steps from the east end of the Twin Cities light rail system, providing a connection as far west as Eden Prairie, with only one bus-to-train changeover. Buses will run every 10 or 15 minutes, and terminate at Union Depot in downtown St. It will include park-and-ride facilities in Woodbury and near 3M. The line will have 21 stations and run mostly along Interstate 94. It will also be a dedicated transit-only route, permanent enough to justify building major park-and-ride infrastructure and some mixed-use real estate development that’s already underway. The project will run about $505 million - less than a third of what train service costs to build, per mile. “It’s a little bit more like light rail in that respect,” said Christine Beckwith, the Gold Line project director. This will be a dedicated, 10-mile line, much of it a bus-only transitway across the east metro area from St. But it won’t be one of the arterial street BRT lines the Twin Cities have been experimenting with recently, like the A Line that runs mostly along Snelling Avenue, or highway-shoulder lines like the Red Line. It’ll be old fashioned tires and asphalt because the line is a bus rapid transit line or BRT.
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Metro Transit’s Gold Line has just wrapped up its end-to-end design process and is ready to move into construction and full federal funding - literally the last steps before the rubber hits the road. The Twin Cities are about to get a brand new kind of transit, tried elsewhere in the country but not previously in Minnesota.
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