There’s a new front in the campaign to eliminate our society’s stubborn dependence on the automobile in the name of global warming. Namely, just stop building parking lots and ramps…
Last week I took the train from the Twin Cities to Chicago for a work trip. I enjoyed it, and it set me wondering whether we ought to expand rail…
The steady stream of revelations exposing the Met Council’s incompetence in managing the botched Southwest Light Rail Line still under construction finally appears to be rattling some members’ cages at…
Time to pull the plug on the Northstar Commuter Rail.
State Rep. Dan Wolgamott (DFL-St. Cloud) was recently arrested for DWI, according to media reports. The third-term representative was pulled over in Kanabec County Friday evening, about 50 miles northeast…
In “Get on board with the train to Duluth” (June 11) the Star Tribune’s Editorial Board announced its support for the Northern Lights Express (NLX), the proposed passenger train service…
Last week, the Star Tribune reported: In seven years, Minneapolis transportation planners want 60% of trips in the city taken on public transit, or made by biking, walking or rolling.…
As I noted last month, the state government voted to waste $200 million on a train running between Minneapolis and Duluth. The media is now — belatedly — asking “How…
The Met Council claims to be all about equity and inclusion in the grandstanding statements on the agency’s “Equity in Action” page posted on its website. Our public engagement plan…
I’ve explained before just what a total waste of money the proposed Northern Lights Express will be. It will be a slower, more expensive, and less convenient way of moving…
The Office of the Legislative Auditor released a scathing report in March on the Golden Turkey Winner Southwest Light Rail Transit (SWLRT), criticizing the Met Council for, among other things:…
Walz doubles down on failure at the Met Council.
Despite a $19 billion budget surplus, House Democrats are pushing a transportation bill that raises sales taxes in the metro area and adds a new fee for home deliveries from…
Here they go again. Just when you think the Met Council can’t dig itself a deeper hole on the construction of the Southwest Light Rail Transit Line, the agency inevitably…
One of my favorite replies to my last article about the Northern Lights Express was “Have you ever been to Europe?” Well, yes, actually, I lived there for the first…
I’m always surprised at the amount of pushback that criticisms of the Northern Lights Express draw. I write about a number of contentious topics here — taxes, spending, regulations, for…