Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 4, 2007
AIRPORT LRT STATION TO RE-OPEN SEPT. 8
MINNEAPOLIS – (Sept. 4) – The Humphrey Terminal light-rail station at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport will re-open at 2 a.m., Sept. 8, Metro Transit announced today.
The station has been closed for the past year as the Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) began construction of a 5,500-space parking ramp adjacent to the station. Initial stages of ramp construction included work to connect the station to the new ramp. Hiawatha trains passed through Humphrey Terminal Station during the initial phase of construction but did not serve customers in the work zone.
Construction has progressed on schedule, allowing the train station to re-open as planned while building activities continue on other parts of the parking structure. When the station re-opens, it will include escalators and elevators providing direct access to the second level of the new parking ramp and from there to the Humphrey Terminal.
Over the past 12 months, airline passengers and airport employees traveling between Humphrey and Lindbergh terminals have used a MAC-funded shuttle bus service operated by Metro Transit. When light-rail service to Humphrey Terminal resumes on Sept. 8, that shuttle service will no longer be needed and will be discontinued.
Light-rail service between the airport terminals operates 24-hours-a-day and is free of charge. Fares elsewhere on the Hiawatha light-rail line are $1.50 or $2 depending on time of day.
Metro Transit is a service of the Metropolitan Council. Customers board its trains and buses about 240,000 times each weekday.
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(Editors: For information call Bob Gibbons, director of customer services, 612-349-7509 or via e-mail at robert.gibbons@metc.state.mn.us)
