# Bronze Line *A proposed bus rapid transit corridor in Minnesota, known successively as the Rush Line, the Purple Line and the Bronze Line.* The Bronze Line is a proposed bus rapid transit corridor north of the [[Gold Line]] in [[Minnesota]].[^1][^2] It has carried three names: the Rush Line, the Purple Line, and, as of December 2025, the Bronze Line. It has not been built under any of them.[^2][^3] The federal permitting record for the project is listed under its first name, *Rush Line Bus Rapid Transit*, and that entry persists across the renames.[^1] [[Metro Transit]] discontinued the Purple Line in September 2025.[^2][^3] Further development, engineering and construction are expected to take at least six more years.[^2][^3] ## Who Ramsey County maintains the project page, which is filed under the Rush Line and Purple Line names.[^2] The White Bear Lake City Council supported the route in 2020. In March 2022 it passed a resolution asking that the route not enter the city, reversing that support.[^3] By June 2022, the committee overseeing the project had rejected a terminus in downtown White Bear Lake.[^3] Metro Transit discontinued the Purple Line in September 2025.[^3] ## What The project is a bus rapid transit corridor. The federal permitting dashboard lists it as *Rush Line Bus Rapid Transit*, and the Ramsey County page lists it as a Purple Line BRT project.[^1][^2] The record shows three names and no completed segment. It does not establish what the September 2025 discontinuation covered beyond the Purple Line designation itself.[^2][^3] ## When - **Rush Line:** the name under which the corridor appears in the federal permitting record.[^1] - **2017:** the Purple Line name was adopted.[^3] - **2020:** the White Bear Lake City Council supported the route.[^3] - **July 14, 2021:** the Purple Line was officially designated.[^2][^3] - **March 2022:** the White Bear Lake City Council passed a resolution asking that the route not enter the city.[^3] - **June 2022:** the committee rejected the downtown White Bear Lake terminus.[^3] - **September 2025:** Metro Transit discontinued the Purple Line.[^3] - **December 2025:** the corridor carried the name Bronze Line.[^2][^3] - Further development, engineering and construction are expected to take at least six more years.[^2][^3] ## Where The corridor runs north of the Gold Line.[^2][^3] A downtown White Bear Lake terminus was proposed. The committee rejected it by June 2022, after the city council's March 2022 resolution.[^3] ## How much According to the Wikipedia account of the project, the cost was estimated at $420–470 million. The same account states that the revised route no longer met federal funding thresholds. The pack does not give the date of the estimate.[^3] ## In the at-issue record At-issue pair AI-Washington-087, in the project's Washington package, records two facts together: the corridor has had three names and has not been built. Construction remains at least six years off.[^2][^3] The pair's primary anchor is the federal permitting record, chosen because it persists across every rename.[^1] ## In the Minnesota record ### What - A bus rapid transit corridor north of the Gold Line, listed federally as the Rush Line.[^1][^2] - The Purple Line was discontinued by Metro Transit in September 2025.[^3] ### When - Officially designated the Purple Line on July 14, 2021.[^2] - Named the Bronze Line as of December 2025.[^3] ## Notes [^1]: Federal Permitting Dashboard, *Rush Line Bus Rapid Transit* (undated) — federal permitting record for the corridor under its Rush Line name; the record persists across renames. https://www.permits.performance.gov/permitting-projects/rush-line-bus-rapid-transit [^2]: Ramsey County, *Rush Line / Purple Line* (Purple Line BRT project page, undated) — county project record for the corridor and its naming, including the Purple Line designation. https://www.ramseycountymn.gov/residents/roads-transportation/transit-corridors-studies/purple-line-brt-project/rush-line-purple-line [^3]: Wikipedia, *Metro Purple Line (Minnesota)* (undated) — the three names; 2017 adoption and July 14, 2021 designation; the White Bear Lake 2020 support and March 2022 resolution; the June 2022 terminus rejection; the $420–470 million estimate; the September 2025 discontinuation; the December 2025 Bronze Line name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_Purple_Line_(Minnesota