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METRO Green Line Extension Southwest LRT
METRO Green Line Extension (Southwest LRT), project 61001 - 14.5 miles of double track and 16 new stations from downtown Minneapolis to Eden Prairie, the largest line in the Metropolitan Council's capital programme
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- Buyer
- Metropolitan Council
- Where
- Minnesota · Minneapolis
- Segments
- Civil works, Track, Signalling, Electrification, Rolling stock, Stations & depots
- Technology areas
- Track & civil, Signalling & train control, Rolling-stock hardware
- Status
- In execution — Opening in 2027; the Council will announce the opening day in September 2026 at the Louisiana Avenue station.
- Value band
- over $1bn
- Currency
- USD
- Key dates (month)
- Preliminary engineering fta September 2011 · Record of decision July 2016 · Engineering entry fta December 2016 · Amended record of decision May 2018 · Construction began 2019 · Full funding agreement September 2020 · Opening 2027 · Opening date announcement September 2026 · Budget read September 2026
Status in full
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Opening in 2027; the Council will announce the opening day in September 2026 at the Louisiana Avenue station. As of January 2026 construction was over 90 per cent complete with all 16 stations under construction or nearly complete and all of the LRT track in place. In August 2026 the Council reported civil construction nearing completion with final submittals, punch list and contract closeout remaining, systems construction over 90 per cent complete, and systems integration testing active between Target Field and Bryn Mawr stations.
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- Key dates (9)
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7 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)
- ● Metropolitan Council · About the Green Line Extension — 14.5 miles of double track, 16 new stations, 27 Type 3 light rail vehicles built by Siemens in California, about $3 billion of planned and permitted investment within a 10-minute walk of the line, and people in 70 of Minnesota's 87 counties having worked on the project. The Council's own Project-Facts.aspx address redirects here (HTTP 302), and this is the resolved page read on 14 September 2026 (HTTP 200, 68,436 bytes). (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Metropolitan Council · METRO Green Line Extension — project home page: 'Opening in 2027'; 14.5 miles added to the existing Green Line; the Council will announce the 2027 opening day on 26 September 2026 at the Louisiana Avenue station (published 2026-09 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Office of the Legislative Auditor, State of Minnesota · Financial Audit Division, Performance Audit: Metropolitan Council — Southwest Light Rail Transit Construction, April 2025 (PDF, 48 pages, 3,492,439 bytes), transmittal dated 7 April 2025, covering the period 1 January 2019 through 31 March 2023 Byte counts in this register are gzip transfer sizes; the server's content-length for this PDF is 3,660,150 bytes. (published 2025-04-07 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Metropolitan Council · METRO Green Line Extension update, presentation to the Metropolitan Council, 26 August 2026 (PDF, 24 pages, 5,460,085 bytes): civil construction nearing completion; Hopkins Rail Support Facility 97 per cent complete; systems construction over 90 per cent complete; systems integration testing active between Target Field and Bryn Mawr; through July 2026, 5,698 people had worked on the project, 4,606 of them Minnesota residents; 22 per cent disadvantaged business enterprise participation on construction contracts against a project goal of 15 per cent (published 2026-08-26 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Metropolitan Council · Business Item 2026-107 — METRO Green Line Extension Aldridge Parsons Joint Venture Change Order to Contract 17P000; Metropolitan Council meeting of 2026-06-24. Carries the original systems contract award date and amount, the change-order authority table and the change-order amount. (published 2026-06-24 · 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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| Tender | Buyer | Status | Value band | Next key date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lindberg Tunnel low-vibration track replacement | Met Council | Bids closed | estimated contract value 'Over $10M' as the Council's own Forecasted Contracting Opportunities schedule prints it - an open-ended class with a published floor and no ceiling, not a point estimate | Bids closed September 2026 · award expected |
| METRO Green Line Extension systems construction | Met Council | In execution | $100–500m | Awarded September 2019 |
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Show all 6 related tenders
| Tender | Buyer | Status | Value band | Next key date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| METRO Green Line Extension civil construction | Met Council | In execution | over $1bn | |
| METRO Blue Line Extension engineering | Met Council | In execution | $100–500m | |
| Twenty-seven Type 3 vehicles Green Line Extension | Met Council | In execution | $100–500m |
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