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Even as crews are only starting to dig their way under the Crosstown Highway to build a tunnel for Southwest Light Rail trains, transit planners already have more than five other major transit lines in the pipeline that are expected to cost about $700 million.
They’re bus rapid transit lines, like the A Line buses that run from Minneapolis to Rosedale and the C Line that connects the Brooklyn Center Transit Center with downtown Minneapolis.
Metro Transit is already quite a way further down the alphabet — on lines F, G and H, says Katie Roth, assistant director of bus rapid transit for the agency. Planners are going to recommend which routes will get the new, faster service in March. There are already proposals for 10 lines.