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VA Medical Center station (Metro Transit)
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VA Medical Center station is a light rail station on the Blue Line on Fort Snelling in the Twin Cities region of Minnesota.[2]
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![]() VA Medical Center station in 2014 | |||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||
Location | 5504 Minnehaha Avenue Fort Snelling, Minnesota | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 44°54′10″N 93°12′08″W | ||||||||||
Owned by | Metro Transit | ||||||||||
Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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Opened | June 26, 2004 (2004-06-26) | ||||||||||
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2023 | 472 daily[1] ![]() | ||||||||||
Rank | 32 out of 37 | ||||||||||
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This station is on the northwest corner of the intersection of Minnehaha Avenue with the entrance to the Minneapolis VAHCS Medical Center. A center-platform station, it entered service when the Blue Line opened on June 26, 2004.
North of the station, between it and the 50th Street/Minnehaha Park station, the Blue Line leaves Minnesota State Highway 55 and travels down the center of Minnehaha Avenue for two blocks.