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Transmitting the City's support for the Bronze Line Locally Preferred Alternative to the Metropolitan Council and Ramsey County.
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WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Council (“Council”) and Ramsey County (“County”) are jointly funding and leading the design and construction of the METRO Bronze Line Bus Rapid Transit (“BRT”) Project (“Project”) in partnership with Metro Transit (an operating division of the Council), the cities of Saint Paul and Maplewood (“Municipalities”), and the Minnesota Department of Transportation (“MnDOT”); and
WHEREAS, the project would provide high-level transit service in the same general corridor as the former Purple Line project, effectively replacing and reimagining that project; and
WHEREAS, community outreach and engagement has been and is anticipated to be a major focus as the Project progresses through the preliminary engineering, environmental review, final design, and construction phases; and
WHEREAS, the Council has completed a Route Modification Study ("Study”) to identify a new northern terminus (Phase 1) and evaluate an alternate alignment north of Maryland Avenue (Phase 2) for the Project in response to actions taken by the White Bear Lake and Maplewood City Councils with regard to the Purple Line; and
WHEREAS, on December 11, 2025, the Project’s Corridor Management Committee recommended to the Council and County a revised Locally Preferred Alternative (“LPA”) for the Project; and
WHEREAS, the overall revised LPA, shown in Figure 1, consists of a 10-mile route between Union Depot in downtown Saint Paul and the Maplewood Mall Transit Center with 22 stations; and
WHEREAS, the revised LPA between Union Depot in downtown Saint Paul and Maryland Avenue on Saint Paul’s East Side is generally consistent with 1) the original LPA, which was supported by the Saint Paul City Council (RES PH 17-204), 2) the preliminary 15% design plans, which were supported by the Saint Paul City Council (RES PH 20-165), and 3) the e...
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