 This week, crews began painting red bus-only lanes on Lagoon Avenue
Construction is active along Lake Street and Lagoon Avenue in Minneapolis, with major work currently between France Avenue and 22nd Avenue.
To see where work will be happening, and what is being built, please view the interactive project map.
While office hours have concluded, staff are available to attend community events or meetings to connect and answer questions about construction. To have staff visit your next event, contact bline@metrotransit.org
As crews complete sidewalk, curb, and station work, one of the final items to complete in this year’s construction process is a mill and overlay to provide a new, smoother pavement surface. A mill and overlay process involves grinding the top layer of asphalt off the street and using a large machine to recycle and re-pave the asphalt.
The next stage of mill and overlay work will take place beginning Sept. 9 and will pick up where the previous phase left off, heading west along Lake Street at Bde Maka Ska before turning around at Market Plaza and moving east along Excelsior Blvd. and Lake St. to Lake & Blaisdell.
This phase is expected to last one to two weeks.
This work involves temporary street limitations or closures, large machines that produce loud grinding noises and beeping, and smoke/odor.
This work will start as early as 6 a.m. Crews will work on the street one half at a time, with traffic limited to one lane in each direction during the process.
After this work is complete, crews will return to stripe driving lanes and crosswalks as well as apply red paint for any new bus-only lanes.
With early morning work and noise occurring due to mill and overlay work, the B Line project is offering earplugs for neighbors who live near construction and would find them helpful. To receive earplugs, contact bline@metrotransit.org.
Schedule
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Crews continue to install underground fiber optic cable along the corridor.
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Separate from B Line and Lake Street improvements, CenterPoint Energy is updating its infrastructure and gas meters in some locations. CenterPoint Energy staff may contact residents and businesses about potential short-term gas outages as they upgrade equipment. For more information on CenterPoint’s work, view its project website.
Current closure information
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The right lane of eastbound Excelsior Boulevard and Lake Street between Market Plaza and the Lake Street/Excelsior Boulevard intersection are currently closed, maintaining one lane for through traffic. Both lanes of westbound Excelsior Boulevard are open.
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The right lane of westbound Lake Street is closed, starting on the north side of Bde Maka Ska through Dean Parkway.
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The portion of Ewing Avenue south of Lake Street is closed until Sept. 20.
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The north side of Lake Street between East Bde Maka Ska Parkway and Blaisdell Avenue is currently closed, maintaining one lane for through traffic. Additional traffic control changes may be made near the City of Minneapolis’ 1st Avenue project. Learn more about this project.
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The north side of Lake Street between 4th and 21st avenues is closed, maintaining one lane in each direction for through traffic. Additional traffic control changes are in place for MnDOT’s Hi-Lake Project on Lake Street east of 21st Avenue. Learn more about this project.
Upcoming construction activities
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This week, crews completed underground sewer work in the public right-of-way and fiber work.
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Next week, crews will connect utilities to the building site, dig the foundation hole for the driver restroom building, complete curb and gutter work, and fence off the worksite to begin work on the restroom building.
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This work includes the use of heavy machinery, and impacts such as vibrations, loud noise, and dust and debris are to be expected.
Excelsior Boulevard and Market Plaza
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This week, crews continued concrete work on the median on Excelsior Boulevard. This work is expected to be complete by Sept. 20.
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Mill and overlay work will begin in this area starting the week of Sept. 9.
Lake Street and West Bde Maka Ska Parkway
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This week, crews completed underground electrical work and poured the concrete bus platform.
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Next week, crews will begin work on the concrete station areas, with work complete by Sept 20.
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Mill and overlay work will begin at this intersection starting the week of Sept. 9.
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This work includes the use of heavy machinery, and impacts such as vibrations, loud noise, and dust and debris are to be expected.
Lake Street and Knox, James, Irving, Humboldt, and Holmes avenues
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This week, crews completed concrete work at the intersection corners and in the bikeway.
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Next week, mill and overlay work will begin at these intersections, which will include paving the new bikeway.
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This work includes the use of heavy machinery, and impacts such as vibrations, loud noise, and dust and debris are to be expected.
Lake Street and Fremont and Emerson avenues
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This week, crews began concrete work at the intersection corners.
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Next week, mill and overlay work will begin at these intersections, and concrete work at intersection corners is expected to be completed.
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This work includes the use of heavy machinery, and impacts such as vibrations, loud noise, and dust and debris are to be expected.
Lake Street and Lyndale, Grand, Pillsbury, and Blaisdell avenues
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Mill and overlay work will begin on the south side of these intersections starting the week of Sept. 9.
Lake Street and Portland, Oakland, and Park avenues
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This week, crews began underground electrical work at all three intersections and completed pavement patching at Lake & Portland.
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Next week, crews will complete underground electrical work.
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This work includes the use of heavy machinery, and impacts such as vibrations, loud noise, and dust and debris are to be expected.
Lake Street and Columbus Avenue
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This week, crews completed curb and gutter work.
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Next week, crews will complete underground electrical work and pavement patching.
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This work includes the use of heavy machinery, and impacts such as vibrations, loud noise, and dust and debris are to be expected.
Lake Street and Chicago Avenue
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This week, crews began work on the concrete station areas that will continue for several weeks.
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This work includes the use of heavy machinery, and impacts such as vibrations, loud noise, and dust and debris are to be expected.
Lake Street and Elliot Avenue
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This week, crews completed curb and gutter work.
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Next week, crews will complete pavement patching and underground electrical work.
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This work includes the use of heavy machinery, and impacts such as vibrations, loud noise, and dust and debris are to be expected.
Lake Street and 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th avenues
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This week, crews completed underground electrical work.
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Next week, crews will begin concrete work at intersection corners that will continue for several weeks.
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This work includes the use of heavy machinery, and impacts such as vibrations, loud noise, and dust and debris are to be expected.
Lake Street and 14th Avenue
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This week, crews completed curb and gutter work, pavement patching, and underground electrical work.
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Next week, crews will begin concrete work at intersection corners.
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This work includes the use of heavy machinery, and impacts such as vibrations, loud noise, and dust and debris are to be expected.
Lake Street and 15th, Bloomington, 16th, and 17th avenues
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This week, crews began concrete work at intersection corners that will continue for several weeks.
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This work includes the use of heavy machinery, and impacts such as vibrations, loud noise, and dust and debris are to be expected.
Lake Street and 18th and Cedar avenues
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This week, crews began work on concrete intersection corners that will be completed by the end of next week.
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This work includes the use of heavy machinery, and impacts such as vibrations, loud noise, and dust and debris are to be expected.
Lake Street and Longfellow, 19th, and 20th avenues
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Next week, crews will begin work on the concrete medians at each intersection.
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This work includes the use of heavy machinery, and impacts such as vibrations, loud noise, and dust and debris are to be expected.
Lake Street and 21st Avenue
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This week, crews completed concrete sidewalk work.
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There will be no work at this intersection for several weeks.
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Any questions about B Line or Lake Street improvements construction can be directed to our construction hotline at 651-356-6995 or to BLine@metrotransit.org.
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