38th Street station (Metro Transit)
light rail station in Minneapolis, Minnesota
38th Street station is a light rail station on the Blue Line in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
This station is located at the intersection of 38th Street and Minnesota State Highway 55 (Hiawatha Avenue), in Minneapolis. This is a center-platform station. Service began at this station when the Blue Line opened on June 26, 2004.
The city of Minneapolis has a station area plan to guide development in the area. The initial plan was adopted in 2006.
Bus connections
From 38th Street Station, there are direct bus connections to Metro Transit routes 14, 22, and 38. Starting June 14th, 2025, Route 23 would be replaced with Route 38.
Station changes since opening
Metro Transit proposed building secure, covered bike storage for 53 bicycles in 2016. The structure would have required a Go-To Card to operate.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “38th Street station (Metro Transit)” as light rail station in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as light rail station in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4636047. Authority coordinates are 44.935, -93.230. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004, 2006, 2025 and 2016.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “38th Street station (Metro Transit)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.