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METRO Blue Line Extension Bottineau LRT
METRO Blue Line Extension (Bottineau LRT), project 61403 - 13.4 miles and 13 new stations from Target Field Station to Brooklyn Park through North Minneapolis, Robbinsdale and Crystal
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- Buyer
- Metropolitan Council
- Where
- Minnesota · Brooklyn Park
- Segments
- Civil works, Track, Signalling, Electrification, Stations & depots
- Technology areas
- Track & civil, Signalling & train control
- Status
- Planned — In the Engineering phase of the FTA's Capital Investment Grants programme, entered January 2017, with the construction grant estimated for early 2027 and non-CIG matching funds recorded as In Progress.
- Value band
- over $1bn
- Currency
- USD
- Key dates (month)
- Pd entry fta August 2014 · Eng entry fta January 2017 · Original record of decision September 2016 · Sfeis published May 2025 · Amended record of decision August 2025 · Council adequacy determination September 2025 · Estimated construction grant 2027 · Construction anticipated 2027 · Budget read September 2026
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In the Engineering phase of the FTA's Capital Investment Grants programme, entered January 2017, with the construction grant estimated for early 2027 and non-CIG matching funds recorded as In Progress. The Council states that project staff will complete 90 per cent design by summer 2026 and 100 per cent by autumn 2026 and that construction is anticipated to begin in 2027. The Federal Transit Administration published an Amended Record of Decision in August 2025 concluding the federal environmental review, and the Council determined the Supplemental Final Environmental Impact Statement adequate in September 2025.
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8 sources · all primary
- ● Metropolitan Council · 2026 Final Adopted Unified Budget (PDF, 155 pages, 4,548,572 bytes) — Table 9, Transportation Capital Program, and Table G-1, Capital Program Transportation, giving for every project number the 2026 Adopted Authorized Capital Program, the 2026-2031 Capital Improvement Plan by year and the ACP+CIP total, all in thousands of dollars (published 2025-12 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Federal Transit Administration · Capital Investment Grant (CIG) Dashboard, CIG-Public-Dashboard-09-11-2026.pdf (2 pages, 113,180 bytes), 'Last updated: 09/10/2026': METRO Blue Line Extension (Bottineau LRT), sponsor Met Council, Minneapolis MN, phase Eng, length 13.4, 13 stations, project cost $3,580.0 million, CIG funding request $752.7 million, CIG share 21 per cent, NEPA completion 8/11/2025, PD entry 08/22/2014, ENG entry 01/19/2017, non-CIG matching funds In Progress, estimated grant date Early 2027; the footnote records that the 8/11/2025 date is the Amended Record of Decision and that the original ROD date was 09/19/2016 Read with the full browser header set; a plain curl is answered HTTP 403. (published 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Federal Transit Administration · Current Capital Investment Grants Program and Expedited Project Delivery Pilot Program Projects — the two Minnesota entries are the METRO Blue Line Extension (Bottineau LRT) at New Starts Engineering and the METRO F Line Bus Rapid Transit at Small Starts Project Development www.transit.dot.gov answers HTTP 403 with a 503-byte body to a curl request carrying only a user-agent string, and HTTP 200 with 14,208 bytes to the same request carrying the full browser header set - Accept, Accept-Language, the four Sec-Fetch headers, Upgrade-Insecure-Requests and the sec-ch-ua client hints. The same is true of railroads.dot.gov. (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Metropolitan Council · METRO Blue Line Extension — project home page: 'With the recent completion of the Federal Risk Assessment process and the project nearing the 90% design milestone, project staff in partnership with the Federal Transit Administration have set an official project budget of $3.58 billion'; 90 per cent design by summer 2026 and 100 per cent by autumn 2026; construction anticipated to begin in 2027 The /Current-Projects/ address redirects here (HTTP 302); this is the resolved page read on 14 September 2026 (HTTP 200, 61,879 bytes). (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Metropolitan Council · METRO Blue Line Extension — about the project: 13.4 miles of light rail track from Target Field Station to Brooklyn Park through north Minneapolis, Golden Valley, Robbinsdale and Crystal, 13 new stations, developed jointly by the Council and Hennepin County. The Council's own Funding.aspx address under this path redirects here (HTTP 302), and this is the resolved page read on 14 September 2026 (HTTP 200, 58,207 bytes); the Funding page the project pages themselves link under /Current-Projects/ returns HTTP 404. (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Metropolitan Council · Business Item 2025-137 — METRO Blue Line Extension – Adequacy Determination; Metropolitan Council meeting of 2025-09-10. Council determination that the Supplemental Final Environmental Impact Statement is adequate; records that the FTA signed the Amended Record of Decision on 11 August 2025 and that the SFEIS was published in May 2025. (published 2025-09-10 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Metropolitan Council · Forecasted Contracting Opportunities, dated 2/6/2026 (PDF, 15 pages, 431,322 bytes) — the Council's own forward schedule giving, for each anticipated procurement, the project title, contract type, description, an Estimated Contract Value class, the expected IFB or RFP advertisement quarter, the procurement method and the division unit The Council's Forecasted-Contracts.aspx address redirects here (HTTP 302); this is the resolved address of the PDF itself, read on 14 September 2026 (HTTP 200, 431,322 bytes, 15 pages, dated 2/6/2026). (published 2026-02-06 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority · Schedule II: 2026 Capital Budget and 2026-2030 Capital Improvement Program (PDF, 18 pages, 1,905,658 bytes) - project 1000899 'RRA: METRO Green Line Extension Light Rail Transit' and project 1000941 'RRA: METRO Blue Line Extension Light Rail Transit', each with its revenue and expense table, its stated total project contribution and the project's full funding split; the remaining projects are RRA: Capital Reserve, RRA: Dakota Corridor - Arcola Bridge and seven Midtown Greenway bridge projects under HCRRA Capital - Corridor Investments (published 2025-12 · checked 2026-09-14)
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