Previous Plans

Plans published March 2024

Since the route recommendation in September 2023, project staff have advanced engineering and design of the route and stations to 30% design as of March 2024. These plans show the location of the alignment, station locations, and general access changes. Final designs and station locations will be refined based on community feedback and will be updated to include more details on bicycle, pedestrian, and landscape accommodations. This material is conceptual and intended to provide a frame of reference for community members to see how light rail could fit in their neighborhood.

Brooklyn Park

• All Brooklyn Park roll plots (PDF)
• Oak Grove Parkway Station (PDF)
• 93rd Avenue Station (PDF)
• 85th Avenue Station (PDF)
• Brooklyn Boulevard Station (PDF)
• 63rd Avenue Station (PDF)

Crystal

• All Crystal roll plots (PDF)
• Bass Lake Road Station (PDF)

Robbinsdale

• All Robbinsdale roll plots (PDF)
• Downtown Robbinsdale Station (PDF)
• Lowry Station (PDF)

Minneapolis

• All Minneapolis roll plots (PDF)
• Penn Avenue Station (PDF)
• James Avenue Station (PDF)
• Lyndale Avenue Station (PDF)
• Plymouth Avenue Station (PDF)

Plans published September 2023

Based on technical considerations, community input, and past project work, a route recommendation was released in September 2023. The documents below represent the recommended route for light rail to connect communities from Minneapolis northwest to Brooklyn Park.

Brooklyn Park

• All Brooklyn Park roll plots (PDF)
• Oak Grove Parkway Station (PDF)
• 93rd Avenue Station (PDF)
• 85th Avenue Station (PDF)
• Brooklyn Boulevard Station (PDF)
• 63rd Avenue Station (PDF)

Crystal

• All Crystal roll plots (PDF)
• Bass Lake Road Station (PDF)

Robbinsdale

• All Robbinsdale roll plots (PDF)
• Downtown Robbinsdale Station (PDF)
• Lowry Station (PDF)

Minneapolis

• All Minneapolis roll plots (PDF)
• Penn Avenue Station (PDF)
• James Avenue Station (PDF)
• Lyndale Avenue Station (PDF)
• Plymouth Avenue Station (PDF)

Plans published between 2021 – 2023

The METRO Blue Line Extension began seeking feedback in March 2021 on revised routes that did not use freight rail property as previously planned from the January 2018 plans. From 2021-2023, project staff sought public feedback on the new 63rd Street Station in Brooklyn Park, new stations and alignment in Crystal and Robbinsdale along Bottineau Blvd (County Road 81), and several route and station options between Target Field and West Broadway in Minneapolis. The visualizations and rollplots below showed the progress of these designs during these periods.

• Brooklyn Park potential station areas, visualizations, and roll plots (PDF)
• Robbinsdale potential station areas visualizations, and roll plots (PDF)
• Crystal potential station areas visualizations, and roll plots (PDF)
• Minneapolis West Broadway from Irving to Lowry Avenue potential station areas, visualizations and roll plots (PDF)
• Minneapolis West Broadway & 21st Avenue potential station areas, visualizations, and roll plots (PDF)
• Minneapolis East of 1-94 & Lyndale Avenue potential station areas, visualizations, and roll plots (PDF)

Plans prior to August 2020

The plans below, published in January 2018, represent approximately 90% design for the METRO Blue Line Extension project's previous alignment.

• Previous Alignment 90% Design Plans 4: Crystal (PDF)
• Previous Alignment 90% Design Plans 5: Brooklyn Park (South) (PDF)
• Previous Alignment 90% Design Plans 6: Brooklyn Park (Middle) (PDF)
• Previous Alignment 90% Design Plans 7: Brooklyn Park (North) (PDF)
• Previous Alignment 90% Design Plans 3: Robbinsdale (PDF)
• Previous Alignment 90% Design Plans 2: Golden Valley (PDF)
• Previous Alignment 90% Design Plans 1: Minneapolis (PDF)

Plan documents are primarily graphic and may not be compatible with screen readers. If you are unable to read a PDF document, email the Blue Line Extension Project Office to request the information in an alternate format.