Blue Line Extension staff and decision makers are committed to designing this project with communities and have changed the project in many major and minor ways as a direct result of what we’ve heard through collaborative engagement efforts.
Community voices have played a crucial role in shaping this project to date and will continue to drive decisions as the project advances.
Here are just a few of the ways your input has shaped this project:
- Brooklyn Park
- Additional station lighting
- Trail connections to and from stations
- Uniform fencing
- Crystal
- Evaluated 4-, 5-, and 6-traffic-lane options with LRT from Bass Lake Road to Hwy. 100
- Adding a traffic overpass at Bass Lake Road
- Robbinsdale
- Park-and-ride options
- Refined station location options
- Minneapolis
- Moving the route off of West Broadway to 21st Avenue North between I-94 and James Avenue
- Moving route from Lyndale Avenue to east of I-94
- Removing mixed LRT and traffic on 21st Avenue
- Improvements to West Broadway parallel to tracks on 21st Avenue
- Reducing property impacts
- Adding a second station between Lyndale and James avenues
- Changing the Lowry Avenue station from an elevated platform to one at ground level
- Improving pedestrian connections to and from Lowry Avenue Station
Learn more about our engagement efforts.