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

Crystal

Robbinsdale

Minneapolis

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

Crystal

Robbinsdale

Minneapolis

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.

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.

METRO Blue Line Extension

Blue Line Extension Project Office
Park Place West Building, Suite 600
6465 Wayzata Boulevard
St. Louis Park, MN 55426