Met Council Seeks Public Feedback on Lowry Avenue Station Design Alternatives
Written by Jennifer McLawhorn, Managing Editor
A birdseye view of the current municipal consent design for the Lowry Avenue Station.
Rendering and caption courtesy of Met Council
MINNEAPOLIS - The Metropolitan Council presented design options for the Lowry Avenue Station on its Blue Line Extension (BLE) on December 3, 2024.
The station will serve North Memorial Hospital, the Grand Rounds Scenic Byway, and the Victory Memorial Parkway, according to the Met Council.
The current municipal consent design (option A) that was approved by cities in fall 2024 features “an at-grade station and crossings of Wirth/Victory Memorial Parkway, Grand Rounds Trail, and Lowry/Oakdale Avenue.”
Below is a four-minute video from the Metropolitan Council that depicts the Lowry Avenue Station’s current design.
In response to concerns raised in summer 2024 regarding hospital vehicle access at the proposed Oakdale Avenue crossing gate, BLE project staff held a workgroup with staff from MPRB, North Memorial, Hennepin County, Met Council, Robbinsdale, and Minneapolis. In this group, they held workshops to understand potential impacts as well as develop and evaluate 8 alternate designs for the station.
After considering station accessibility, hospital traffic, park/trail impacts, traffic, connections to neighborhoods, construction and associated costs, and minimizing impacts to recently reconstructed bridges nearby, they presented design options at a community workshop on December 3, 2024 for public feedback. Below are the designs (including original option A):
The Met Council invites feedback on the proposed design options via a survey at the link here.
