Riverview Corridor

Riverview Corridor
Overview
Status	Canceled
Locale	Minneapolis-Saint Paul
Termini	Saint Paul Union Depot (East) Mall of America (West)
Stations	20
Website	riverviewcorridor.com
Service
Type	Streetcar
System	Metro Transit
Operator(s)	Metro Transit
Daily ridership	20,400 (2040 est.)
History
Planned opening	2032
Technical
Line length	11.7 mi (18.8 km) (planned)
Character	At-grade on surface
Route map Legend Gold Line to Woodbury Union Depot Gold LinePurple LineB Line Central Green Line to Target Field Washington Gold Line to Smith Avenue B Line to West Lake Kellogg Washington Kellogg Grand St. Clair Randolph Otto I-35E Montreal Homer Maynard Davern Fort Road Bridge over the Mississippi River Historic Fort Snelling Blue Line to Target Field Fort Snelling Terminal 1–Lindbergh free 24-hour operation between terminals Terminal 2–Humphrey I-494 / MN 5 American Boulevard Bloomington Central 28th Avenue 82nd Avenue proposed Mall of America existing Red Line to Apple Valley D Line to BCTC all stations accessible This diagram: view talk edit

The Riverview Corridor is a transit corridor connecting Downtown Saint Paul and the Mall of America in Bloomington via the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. The corridor serves an area from the Saint Paul Union Depot to the Mall via a route along West 7th Street, which runs southwest from Downtown Saint Paul. The corridor creates a triangle connecting opposite ends of the Blue Line and Green Line.

The corridor has served as an important transportation link in the Twin Cities since territorial days when it connected downtown Saint Paul and Fort Snelling. Streetcars and later buses connected destinations along West Seventh St, the main thoroughfare of the corridor, since 1884. Streetcars were removed in 1952 and from 1998 to 2012 bus service improvements were identified as the preferred alternative with busway and later arterial bus rapid transit projects studied.

Renewed study started in 2013 and the results of work done from 2014-2017 identified a modern streetcar system similar to systems in Portland, Kansas City, and Detroit as the locally preferred alternative with an alignment along West Seventh Street and MN-5.^[1] On September 6th, 2024 Ramsey County announced that planning efforts for the modern streetcar project were cancelled.^[2]