Cultural Placekeeping
How can Blue Line Extension Stations represent your community?
The METRO Blue Line Extension is more than a transit project - it is a connection between communities, histories, and lived experiences, where every station reflects the stories, strengths, and spirit of the communities it serves — past, present, and future.
Over the course of 2025, community members, local artists, and public agency partners worked together to create cultural placekeeping themes for each station along the route. These themes are meant to reflect the identities, stories, and values of the neighborhoods the Blue Line Extension will serve.
Between February and April 2026, the Blue Line Extension project team collected feedback on Cultural Placekeeping Themes for each station along the route.
Download the Blue Line Extension Cultural Placekeeping Results (XLSX)
Making Tracks with Nkongo
View the Making Tracks with Nkongo: Cultural Placekeeping Process video which features station and facilities design lead, Annabeth Gunderson as she explains how the Blue Line Extension's cultural placekeeping initiative integrates community feedback, history, and local art into light rail station design. She details how guiding themes developed through public working groups will inform physical platform elements such as light pole banners, railing panels, and utility cabinet wraps.
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