Metro Purple Line (Minnesota)

Purple Line
Overview
System	Metro
Status	Planning Stages
Route
Route type	Bus rapid transit
Locale	Minneapolis–St. Paul, Minnesota
Start	White Bear Lake
End	Downtown St. Paul
Length	15 miles
Stations	21
Service
Operates	55 mph (89 km/h) max
Ridership	7,400 (2040 Projection)
Route map Legend Downtown White Bear Lake Whitaker Street Cedar Avenue County Road E Buerkle Road I-694 St. Johns Boulevard Maplewood Mall Transit Center Highway 36 MN 36 Frost Avenue Larpenteur Avenue Maryland Avenue Cook Avenue Arcade Street Payne Avenue Cayuga Street Olive Street I-35E Mt. Airy Street Downtown fare zone Green Line to Target Field Robert & 14th Street Green Line I-35E / I-94 G Line to Little Canada Robert & 10th Street Gold Line to Smith B Line to West Lake 5th-6th Street & Robert Union Depot & Wacouta-Sibley Green Line Gold Line to Woodbury Union Depot Gate A B Line   Planned METRO Park and ride Shared all stations accessible This diagram: view talk edit ← {{{previous_line}}}  {{{system_nav}}}  {{{next_line}}} →

The Metro Purple Line, formerly known as the Rush Line Corridor, is a proposed bus rapid transit service that would run from Union Depot in downtown Saint Paul to the northeastern suburbs of Saint Paul. Along the corridor's 21 proposed stations there are 106,000 jobs within a 10-minute walk. The project is currently in an environmental analysis phase with further development, engineering, and construction expected to take at least six more years. Service would run 7-days a week with 10-minute headways in peak periods and 15-minute service at most other times.^[2] The corridor was named the Rush Line because it was originally planned to end in Rush City, Minnesota.^[3] After using the color purple since 2017, the route was officially named the Purple Line and became part of the Metro network on July 14, 2021.^[4]