MINNEAPOLIS — Metro Transit will resume Northstar commuter train service for 38 Minnesota Twins home games this season, the transit agency announced Friday, March 8.
Trains will run for the Twins’ home opener April 4, for all Saturday and Sunday games, week day day games, and on Memorial Day and July 4. A complete game schedule is available here; updates with specific train scheduling are still to come. Service will not be offered for weekday evening games.
Metro Transit had discontinued the dedicated Twins service in 2022 because of funding issues [see “Northstar ends service …,” Trains News Wire, April 5, 2022], although trains did run for playoff games last year.
The Northstar station in Minneapolis is immediately adjacent to Target Field, the Twins’ ballpark.
The agency also plans Northstar service for Minnesota Vikings games at U.S. Bank Stadium this fall.
Four-tenths of a mile walk and 2 to 4 streets to cross depending on which station you are coming from, when they could have been right there.
Here in Denver, RTD Commuter Rail passes right behind Coors Field where the Colorado Rockies play, but there is not even a station. As well, prior to redevelopment of Denver Union Station 10+ years ago, the light rail line could have been extended a mile or so to reach Coors Field. But the tracks were relocated farther away — farther away from Union Station itself, in fact. Ironically, the Union Station redevelopment demoted actual rail transportation lower on the priority list. Missed opportunities.
The walk from Union Station to Coors Field is less than 2,000 feet. Light heavy rail passenger service serve Union Station. Nothing’s been missed; ya just got some details wrong.