Central Corridor Coordinating Committee

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The Central Corridor Coordinating Committee is a workgroup in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area set up to explore transit options for the Central Corridor, the interurban corridor roughly following University Avenue in the Twin Cities area. After a long period of examination, this committee narrowed transit options for the corridor from a broad universe of choices to just three: a no-build option where services are only incrementally improved, a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) option, wherein buses run on semi-dedicated transitway, and a Light Rail Transit (LRT) option using Light Rail Vehicles (LRVs). In May of 2006 the CCCC concluded its study by publishing a Draft Environmental Impact Study, which concluded that LRT was the best option for the corridor. After a period of public meetings and public comment, the CCCC recommended on June 6, 2006 that the Metropolitan Council select LRT as the locally-preferred alternative for the corridor and apply for Preliminary Engineering to begin.^[1] On June 28, 2006, the Metropolitan Council concurred with the CCCC's decision and officially selected LRT as the locally-preferred alternative.^[2]

Metropolitan Council manages all transit, waterway, and other public resources for the seven-county area surrounding the Twin Cities, and as such, the Central Corridor project will now transition to Metropolitan Council. The work of the Central Corridor Coordinating Committee is now complete.