Hennepin County and all five cities along the route face a July 14 deadline ... "And to take this away from the people of Minneapolis by putting a light rail here is insane!" ...

Transit planners say two major Xcel Energy underground electric transmission lines will need to be moved to make way for the $3 billion Blue Line light-rail extension in Minneapolis’ North Loop ...

the Met Council decided to look for a new route between Target Field and Brooklyn Park. Now, far from avoiding north Minneapolis, plans call for the extended light rail line to run along West ...

Mark Fuhrmann, director of light rail development for the ... options to keep freight rail in the LRT route through the Kenilworth neighborhood of Minneapolis. Goodman said the Metropolitan ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO ... As the removal of trees along the Southwest Light Rail Transit (SWLRT) route continues, a spokesperson says the Metropolitan Council has taken preemptive moves to protect ...

Despite publicly stated misgivings, the Minneapolis City Council has voted to approve a compromise package advancing the Twin Cities Southwest Light Rail Transit line, linking Minneapolis with Eden ...

Light rail service in Minneapolis will shut down Wednesday night ... According to METRO Transit, buses will operate service on the Blue Line route between the Franklin Avenue and Target Field ...

Unveiling their proposed route for the Blue Line light-rail extension Thursday, Metropolitan Council staffers said they would avoid Lyndale Avenue and much of W. Broadway in north Minneapolis as ...

When the Minneapolis metro region went to build a light rail line connecting downtown Minneapolis ... income neighborhoods along the proposed route opposed the project. They'd been scarred from ...

A proposed Minneapolis light-rail project may finally be built following a contentious, three-year lawsuit that was thrown out by a federal judge Tuesday. Critics of the line’s route argued that the ...

Unforeseen soil conditions and the addition of a protective rail-operations barrier ... of a shallow tunnel in the Minneapolis segment of the 14.3-mile route. The Lunda-McCrossan construction ...