Green Line Ride to Take 48 Minutes Total Between the Twin Cities

METRO Green Line Time Lapse: Lowertown St. Paul to Target Field .

METRO Green Line as it travels from St. Paul's Lowertown to the new Target Field Station in Minneapolis. Front and rear view footage shot with GoPro cameras mounted to the body of a new Siemens S70 light-rail vehicle during a test run of the METRO Green Line. The new line opens June 14, 2014. metrotransit.org/greenline

Safety on the Green Line

Light Rail Derailment Simulation on Green Line

Crews Practice Emergency Response with Light Rail Derailment Simulation

Time-lapse of METRO Green Line

This is a time lapse by blogger of Eccentric Aspects.


A Time-lapse Tour of St. Paul's Green Line from cynick on Vimeo.

Washington Avenue Transit Mall

Metro Transit buses training on the Washington Avenue Transit Mall at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN. The buses will be running on the Metro Green Line right of way through the campus area.

Southwest Light Rail Transit (Green Line Extension) Resolution

Transportation Committee on Monday, October 14, 2013. Vote on the Resolution for alignment of the Southwest Light Rail Transit (Green Line Extension) Includes public comment. Link to presentation

Green Line Vertical Connection Groundbreaking

Green Line Update

Testing Start on Green Line

Light rail vehicle tests begin through University of Minnesota

 

 

ST. PAUL, Minn. – July 24, 2013 –The first light rail vehicle to operate under its own power on the Central Corridor Light Rail Transit Project (Green Line) will make its inaugural run this week.

"The line is energized through the University of Minnesota campus, and this is where the first testing will occur. This is an electrifying moment in more ways than one," said Metropolitan Council Chair Sue Haigh, whose agency designed and built the line, which will open in mid-2014 before the Major League Baseball All-Star game at Target Field next July.

A railcar mover will pull one light-rail vehicle (LRV) on Thursday morning from the West Bank Station, past the East Bank and Stadium Village stations and then return to the West Bank. Then, the LRV will move alone overnight Thursday over the same route, drawing power from overhead wires. This will be the start of overnight testing on weeknights through campus, which will resume on or after Aug. 5 and continue through mid-September. Testing on University Avenue and the rest of the corridor will begin late summer. Months of daily testing will follow, the outcome of which will determine the line’s opening date in mid-2014.  

Green Line Quiz Bowl

How to be safe around light rail

What's new with Central Corridor construction

SUV Stops Trains Last Friday

SUV on tracks in Minneapolis disrupts LRT briefly

 

 

Rail Grinding on METRO Green Line

Rail Grinding on METRO Green Line (Central Corridor) on University Ave in St. Paul,MN 6-10-13

Smooth test run on new light rail line

Update on the Green Line O&M

 Link to CCLRT OMF update

Also, expect to see a LRV on the Green Line next week. They are going to be doing dead train pull by the Brandt. They have to do this to check for clearances.

Stay Safe on the Green Line

METRO Green Line Construction

METRO Green Line Construction (Central Corridor Light Rail) from Minneapolis to Downtown St Paul, MN on Dec 5 & 6, 2012. The projct was over 85% done at the time of video. I know this was done a couple months old. Life just happens. Please leave a comment and let me know what you think.

Video Featured on Finance & Commerce News Blog

My video of the new Siemens LRV  was featured on the Finance & Commerce blog Working on the Railroad which was posted on Metropolitan Council Facebook page.