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Southwest LRT Project Facts
- Approximately 15 miles long between Eden Prairie and downtown Minneapolis
- 17 new stations
- 29,660 riders per weekday by 2030
- $1.25 billion cost (year-of-expenditure dollars). Capital costs are expected from four sources:
- the Counties Transit Improvement Board's transit sales tax in the metro area
- the Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority
- the State of Minnesota, and
- the Federal Transit Administration.
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Southwest LRT will operate from downtown Minneapolis through the southwestern suburban cities of
- St. Louis Park,
- Hopkins,
- Minnetonka, and
- Eden Prairie,
- passing in close proximity to the City of Edina.
- The line will connect major activity centers in the region including
- downtown Minneapolis,
- the Opus/Golden Triangle employment area,
- Methodist Hospital,
- the Eden Prairie Center Mall, and
- the Minneapolis Chain of Lakes.
- The line will be part of an integrated system of transitways converging at the Interchange in Minneapolis where connections using the Target Field Station can be made to
- the Hiawatha LRT line,
- the Central Corridor LRT line, with direct connections to the U of M and downtown St. Paul,
- the Northstar Commuter Rail line,
- the proposed Bottineau Transitway, and
- future commuter rail and intercity passenger rail lines.
- Hennepin County is continuing work on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement.
