Charles Zelle, the head honcho of the Met Council, has pronounced improving the safety of passengers on Metro Transit light rail lines and busses his “number one concern.” Incidents like…
The Minnesota Twins have canceled the opening game of the 2022 Major League Baseball season due to bad weather. Accordingly, Metro Transit canceled Northstar commuter rail service to the stadium…
The Met Council’s attempt to force through the Southwest Light Rail Transit line has finally sparked the scrutiny that the biggest public works construction in Minnesota history should have received…
When it rains it pours, nonstop in the case of the seemingly doomed Southwest Light Rail Transit Line under construction. The latest debacle in the most expensive public works project…
There’s growing momentum and pressure on the Met Council to not just audit what went wrong with the scandal-plagued Southwest Light Rail Transit, Line but to flat-out stop construction and…
In 1985, Amtrak ended all passenger rail service to Duluth. It did so because hardly anyone was using the service anymore. Now, nearly 40 years on, there are proposals to…
The $2 billion Southwest Light Rail Transit Line is the most expensive public works project ever undertaken in Minnesota. Besides that, it also holds the potential to be the state’s…
The state legislature is looking at spending $500 million on a “land bridge” over I-94 from Lexington Ave to the Capitol. $6.2 million has been tucked into the 2021 Tax Bill…
Northstar Commuter Rail never did hit the rosy ridership projections officials promised at the line’s inception in 2009. But even Northstar’s most ardent critics must find it hard to believe…
A new study by a national transportation group confirms what metro area drivers already know, as well as the findings of a landmark American Experiment traffic congestion study. The Twin…
It might be too late to pump the brakes on the proposed Blue Line light rail line through the Twin Cities suburb of Robbinsdale pointing north. But city leaders, including…
The coronavirus pandemic has dealt a heavy blow to public transportation. The Metro Transit, for example, recorded a 55 percent ridership decline between 2019 and 2020. According to the Metropolitan…
Judging by the Met Council and Southwest Light Rail Transit’s regular e-updates for the public, the most expensive public works project in Minnesota history appears to be right on track.…
During the final minutes of the 2021 session, the Minnesota legislature hastily passed a new law prohibiting legislators from getting paid to lobby while serving in office. There is concern…
Last month, I wrote that ‘“If you build it, they will come” …might be sound advice when it comes to supernatural baseball fields, but [is] bad advice for government transit.’…
The following article originally appeared in Reason: As it turns out, a huge chunk of President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan doesn’t have much to do with infrastructure. This is not…
“If you build it, they will come.” This might be sound advice when it comes to supernatural baseball fields, but it is bad advice for government transit. Fox 9 reports:…
A devastating guest column in the Star Tribune exposes the dirty little secret behind who benefits from the city of Minneapolis’ plan to eliminate parking and further reduce vehicle lanes…
This op ed appeared in the Duluth News Tribune on April 19th, 2021 Hopes are high among some that the $2 trillion President Joe Biden intends to spend with his…
The global pandemic brought about many changes in life, some temporary and some permanent. One of the permanent changes appears to be how and where we work. Many businesses were…
On Monday, my colleague Tom Steward reported on how proposals for a passenger train service between the Twin Cities and Duluth have risen from the dead as part of President…
The Northstar commuter rail line in the northwestern suburbs has been a loser from the start of service in late 2009. The 38-mile line from Big Lake to Minneapolis never…
A January 2020 Met Council report warned that “investments that address Twin Cities congestion are of statewide importance and warrant attention.” So why is the St. Paul City Council trying to…
During the pandemic, passengers have avoided public transit like the plague with Metro Transit suffering a 60 percent loss in ridership alone. It’s hard to blame the public considering the…