| West Bank | ||||||||||||||||
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| Connections | Regular routes: 2, 3, 7, 16, 22, 121, 122, 144. University of Minnesota commuter routes: 111, 113, 114, 115, 118, 152, 252, 272, 355U, 460, 465, 579, 652, 680, 685, 690, 695, 697, 698, 699, 789.[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | Island platform | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 2014 (planned) | |||||||||||||||
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| Owned by | Metro Transit | |||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (projected 2030) | 1,170 per weekday[1] | |||||||||||||||
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West Bank is a light rail station under construction along the Central Corridor line in Minneapolis on the West Bank campus of the University of Minnesota. Construction in the vicinity began in 2010,[2] and the station is expected to open with the rest of the line in 2014. It will be the westernmost station to be only served by Central Corridor trains. The next station to the west, Downtown East/Metrodome, has been served by the Hiawatha Line since it opened in 2004. According to a preliminary engineering draft from June 2010, the new station will be located west of the Washington Avenue Bridge, extending from Cedar Avenue to slightly east of 19th Avenue.[3] Because the station will be in a sunken corridor, stairways and elevators may be installed at Cedar and/or 19th Avenues to reach the platform.
The station will be located on Hennepin County Road 122, an unsigned continuation of Washington Avenue. Washington Avenue originally ran straight east-west across the Mississippi River when the first bridge for the road was built in 1884. However, the current bridge was constructed in the 1960s at a slight angle to the southwest, causing Washington Avenue to became discontinuous. Washington Avenue itself is located a block to the north, and has its eastern terminus on the West Bank at 19th Avenue, leading into the University of Minnesota Law School.