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Nicollet Mall station (/ ˈ n ɪ k ə l ɛ t / NIH-kə-let) [2] is a light rail station on the Metro Blue Line and Green Line in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Adjacent to the light rail platforms is the southbound Metro Orange Line bus rapid transit station Marquette & 5th Street .
Directly to the west of the station is Metro Mall, a large shopping mall opened in the early 1970s with now relatively few stores. [15] The station is located at Metropolitan Avenue's intersection with Rentar Plaza, which is the access road to the mall's parking lots.
[1] [2] The Metra system has a total of 243 active stations spread out on 11 rail lines with 487.5 miles (784.6 km) of tracks. [1] [3] As of May 2024, an infill station, Auburn Park, is currently under construction on the Rock Island District. The newest Metra station in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago opened on May 20, 2024.
The station is located within the Downtown Minneapolis Fare Zone, where riders can travel in the zone for 50¢ with no transfers. 7th Street & Nicollet is also the westbound/northbound rail replacement bus stop for Nicollet Mall station. Prior to its suspension on March 25, 2020, the station saw regular owl service from the Green Line Night Bus ...
In North America, the creation of pedestrian-friendly urban environments is still in its infancy, but transit malls have existed in a few cities for more than 40 years, starting with the Nicollet Mall [1] in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1968, followed by the Granville Mall in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1974 and the Portland Mall in 1977.
IAPM, the station's primary shopping center, is situated at the intersection of the three lines and has direct subterranean access from lines 10 and 12. These entrances don't have metro exit numbers, so they are additional to the 10 numbered exits. The station got its name from the road along which line 12 is lying, South Shaanxi Road.
The total length of the underground mall is 343 m (1,125 ft), with 10 entrances and exits, 6 comprehensive squares, 3 elevators, 2 toilets on the east and west sides (to the MRT and exit Z7), and 1 unmanned bank (Ruixing Bank). [4] The total floor area is 9,220 m 2 (99,200 sq ft) with a maximum capacity of 4370 people. [5] Zhongxiao W. Rd S Exit：
It is a 5-mile (8.0 km) corridor with 33 platforms and 20 stations located between Pentagon City and Braddock Road. [86] The first 0.8 mile segment in Alexandria runs on a transit lane only. The Arlington County segment began construction in the summer of 2014 and opened April 17, 2016.