In mid-2004 Minneapolis became the most
recent American metropolitan area to institute electric light rail transit. The
Hiawatha Line runs twelve miles between downtown and Bloomington to the
south, where its terminal is at Mall of America,
the nation's largest shopping center. Two stations
serve the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport along the way.
There are a total of seventeen stops on the single route. The line is operated by Metro Transit, which also
runs the area's comprehensive bus network.
This series will take a quick tour outbound, then come back to downtown
to start a much more leisurely review out to the Mall, and will end back
in the heart of town.
The train in this view is not far from reaching the Minneapolis end of
the line at Warehouse District/Hennepin Avenue. |
