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Met Council Approves New LRT Line

Minneapolis (AP) ― The Metropolitan Council has voted to recommend the construction of a light-rail transit line that would connect the downtowns of Minneapolis and St. Paul.

The regional planning organization voted 15-2 on Wednesday to send the application process to the Federal Transit Administration, which will decide whether the project will proceed to the preliminary engineering phase.

The 11-mile route, known as the Central Corridor, would connect to the Hiawatha Line in downtown Minneapolis. It would go through the University of Minnesota and run along University Avenue to the State Capitol, ending in downtown St. Paul.

The project is budgeted at $840 million, but a recent Met Council report showed that inflation could cause costs to rise to $930 million by the time construction begins in 2010. The line is expected to be running by 2014.

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