Last week, Uber and Lyft, true to their word, announced that they would stop operating in Minneapolis after the City Council passed an ordinance hiking driver pay. The growth of Uber —…
Last week, Uber and Lyft, true to their word, announced that they would stop operating in Minneapolis after the City Council passed an ordinance hiking driver pay. What happens next?…
Last Monday, I — along with thousands of others, I imagine — received an email from Lyft saying that they would cease operating in Minneapolis if the City Council passed…
DFL vs Ridesharing On Monday, I — along with thousands of others, I imagine — received an email from Lyft reading: John, the Minneapolis City Council is considering an ordinance…
Back in 2018, I asked “Why is the Ramsey County board going to waste up to $2 billion on a pointless streetcar?” This was in reference to the proposal “to…
Last Wednesday, the Metropolitan Council released more information about the proposed extension of the Blue Line light rail through north Minneapolis, Robbinsdale, Crystal and Brooklyn Park. The project is currently projected…
Plans to revive a failed Twin Cities-to-Duluth train service ignore history.
“Progressives” often allege that conservatives want to take the United States back to the 1950s. In fact, with their obsession with getting Americans back onto trains, it is America’s “progressives”…
When the state legislature set aside $200 million in support of a passenger rail service between Duluth and Minneapolis earlier this year, a project known as the Northern Lights Express…
When state and local governments propose transit projects they have to generate estimates of ridership. In 2017, Metro Transit used a “Regional Travel Demand Model” to generate an estimate of…
It turns out two wrongs do make a right for illegal aliens getting driver’s licenses in Minnesota. Thanks to Gov. Tim Walz and the DFL legislature, illegal aliens in Minnesota…
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…