Project selection process at issue

The $1.8 billion Southwest Light Rail Transit project has drawn companies from around the nation and Canada

The Metropolitan Council will receive a $1.2 million grant from the Federal Transit Administration to boost economic development along the planned Blue Line Extension light ...

Met Council takes final vote to fund project, bypass state

It committed an additional $20.5 million in funding for the line

Authority seeks proposals for study

The Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority agreed Tuesday to provide an additional $20.5 million for the Southwest light rail transit line between Minneapolis and Eden Prairie, bringing the agency’s share to $185.5 million, or 10 percent of the line’s costs.

Legislators along the route are split on the project

“I think that Southwest LRT is in jeopardy,” Sen. Scott Dibble, DFL-Minneapolis, said

The project faces a Sept. 2 deadline to secure most or all of its local funding