Really pretty snow tonight in Minneapolis. Here's the new West Lake Street train station, with the orange still continuing to grow on me. I'm not there yet.. but getting closer.

Lit up Bassett Creek Valley Station in Minneapolis. The new train station is part of the Southwest LRT Green Line extension operated by Metro Transit.

West Lake Street Station is part of the Southwest Light Rail Transit (Green Line Extension), an extension of Meto Transit's Green Line LRT.

Light rail vehicle leaves the West Lake Street Station for the first time.

This morning Metro Transit towed a light rail vehicle through the line for the first time doing basic clearance testing. Construction on the green line extension began in 2018 and is set to open to passengers in 2027.

TRIP Outreach and riders at the Warehouse District/Hennepin Ave Station in downtown Minneapolis. March 2024.

Metro Transit Cedar–Riverside station in South Minneapolis in August 2023.

Bryn Mawr Station construction in Minneapolis. The station is part of the new Southwest Green Line light rail extension from Minneapolis to the western suburbs.

Discarded needles and trash line the tracks at the Cedar-Riverside LRT station.

Target Field Station, Minneapolis

A Jack Daniel's wrapped light rail train in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Cedar Riverside apartments in the background.

Target Field Station in Downtown Minneapolis at night.

Cedar-Riverside LRT trains station in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Riverside Plaza stands tall beyond the METRO Blue Line overpass in the Cedar–Riverside district of Minneapolis. The colorful panels of the 1970s residential towers contrast with the new mid-rise apartments and light rail infrastructure built decades later. This view captures the merging of eras—modern rail transit, Brutalist architecture, and the continuing evolution of one of Minneapolis’s most historically diverse neighborhoods.

Union Depot station in St. Paul, Minnesota.