Minneapolis - St Paul

The Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St Paul house the capitol building along with two-thirds of all Minneapolis residents in their metro area. A light rail line has connected Minneapolis with the airport since 2004, and a second linked the two downtowns a decade later. Minneapolis is also linked to its northwestern suburbs by the Northstar Commuter Rail. But for such a large city with fairly thorough existing rail property, more is possible.

South of the Savage / Port Cargill area, there's a right-of-way which is intact, but definitely lacking any hardware. If we're rebuilding anyway, I've decided to make that a feeder Bus Rapid Transit line, connecting Lakeville to a new transit center at Savage.

Lines 

• Northstar (Silver): 38.7 miles, 10 stations (including 2 new ones at added Holland and Beltrami Junction)
• Pink: 23 miles, 14 stations
• Red: 42.7 miles, 13 stations
• Cyan: 52.6 miles, 23 stations
• Yellow
• Albertville - Hastings (peak periods only):  60 miles, 26 stations
• Plymouth - St Paul: 25 miles, 15 stations
• Brownwood - St Paul: 19 miles, 15 stations
• Purple: 
• Long Lake - White Bear Lake: 34.5 miles, 13 stations
• Savage Junction - White Bear Lake: 37.3 miles, 15 stations
• Orange:
• Hamel - Shackopee: 55 miles, 24 stations
• Hamel - Ford: 44 miles, 18 stations
• Savage BRT: 11.4 miles, 11 stations

The existing Metro light rail is shown as the unnamed stations with thin green and blue lines.