Roads & Bridges Honors the METRO Gold Line BRT Corridor with #2 on Top 10 Roads List
A news source for professionals in the roadway and structural industries, Roads & Bridges publishes an annual list of Top 10 Roads. This is an honor given to North American roads after a nomination and judging process to rank them by project challenges and significant impacts. In 2025, the METRO Gold Line Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Corridor was awarded second place on the Top 10 Roads List for its design excellence, stakeholder involvement, and impact as Minnesota’s first BRT corridor.
METRO Gold Line: A New Era for Twin Cities Transit
After opening in spring of 2025, the Gold Line provides a new 10-mile BRT corridor along with 16 new bus stations. The majority of the corridor is dedicated BRT lanes, and several miles of the Gold Line route will not interact with traffic signals at all—enhancing streamlined travel opportunities for Metro Transit customers.
Kimley-Horn led the preliminary engineering, final design, and construction phase services for this project, coordinating with a variety of cities, counties, departments, and community stakeholders to support goal alignment and the utmost public impact. Our team also strategically coordinated to minimize traffic and roadway impacts during I-94 interchange modifications and the construction of 1.5 miles of noise walls and nine new bridges.
Now completed, the METRO Gold Line supports community connections to other transit lines and ameliorates urban travel and interconnectedness in one of the Midwest’s largest cities.