East Bank station

{{Short description|Light rail station in Minneapolis, Minnesota}}

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

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{{Infobox station

| name = East Bank

| style = Metro (Minnesota)

| image = East Bank Station.png

| caption = East Bank station platform

| address = 551 Washington Avenue

| borough = Minneapolis, Minnesota

| coordinates = {{coord|44|58|25|N|93|13|51|W|region:US-MN_scale:10000_type:railwaystation|display=inline,title}}

| owned = Metro Transit

| platform = 1 island platform

| tracks = 2

| connections = {{bus icon}} Metro Transit: 2

| structure = At-grade

| parking =

| bicycle = Racks, Nice Ride stations

| accessible = Yes

| opened = {{Start date|2014|06|14}}

| passengers = 3,375 daily{{Cite web |title=Transit Stops Boardings and Alightings - Minnesota Geospatial Commons |url=https://gisdata.mn.gov/dataset/us-mn-state-metc-trans-stop-boardings-alightings |access-date=2025-02-25 |website=gisdata.mn.gov |language=en-US}}

| pass_year = 2024

| pass_percent = -5.2

| pass_rank = 1 out of 37

| services = {{Adjacent stations|system=Metro (Minnesota)|line=Green|left=West Bank|right=Stadium Village}}

| mapframe = yes

| mapframe-custom = {{Infobox mapframe |shape=none |marker=rail-light |marker-color=#008144 |zoom=15 }}

}}

East Bank station is a light rail station along the Green Line in Minneapolis, Minnesota, located on Washington Avenue on the East Bank campus of the University of Minnesota. It is located between Union Street and Harvard Street. This is south of the Transportation and Safety Building and north of Moos Tower and Weaver-Densford Hall.{{cite web|url=http://www.metrocouncil.org/transportation/ccorridor/CCLRTPlansJun2010.htm |title=Central Corridor light rail illustrated plans |work=Central Corridor |publisher=Metropolitan Council |date=June 28, 2010 |access-date=September 16, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100907164938/http://www.metrocouncil.org/transportation/ccorridor/CCLRTPlansJun2010.htm |archive-date=September 7, 2010 }}

Washington Avenue on the East Bank was converted into a transit mall when the light-rail line was being built. Construction began in the area in May 2011,{{cite web|url=http://metrotransit.org/TransitArticles/Story.aspx?pageid=18&mid=393&articleid=122|title=Construction on western end of Central Corridor begins in September|publisher=Metro Transit|date=2010|access-date=September 16, 2010}} and the station opened along with the rest of the line in 2014.

As of 2024, the station received the highest average weekday ridership of any Metro Transit light rail station.