The new 11-mile Green Line connects Minneapolis and St. Paul with 18 stops, from Target Field (home of the Twins) in downtown Minneapolis to Union Depot in St. Paul, which is just south of the Capitol Building. Over the next year, there are also plans to make South St. Paul a more pedestrian and
bicycle-friendly community.

On June 14, 2014, the new light rail Green Line officially opened. The line connects what's called the area's central corridor, Minneapolis to St. Paul, along University Avenue.

If you've ever spent some time in downtown Minneapolis, you've probably taken the convenient light rail Blue Line. The Blue Line takes you to and from the airport, plus let's you see some sights (Fort Snelling, Minnehaha Park) and shop (Mall of America). The Blue Line's runs basically south-southeast, but if you wanted to go to St. Paul, which is to the east, you drove or took the bus.

A direct light rail line between the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, as notes St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman, has been in the works for over 40 years. Back in 1891, electric streetcars made the journey between St. Paul and Minneapolis, but like a number of cities across the country, the lure of reasonably price automobiles after the war soon brought a halt to electric streetcars. For St. Paul, the last streetcars ran in 1952.

Lawsuits by the University of Minnesota and Minnesota Public Radio over noise concerns held up construction plans for the new line. Metro Transit has resolved those concerns by providing vibration-absorbent tracks near the university and the radio studios.

The price tag for the Green Line is $957 million.