Data from the National Transportation Database shows that the Twin Cities' Light Rail system is the least safe in America.
Democrats on the Minnesota House of Representatives Energy and Climate Finance and Policy Division Committee have dropped a 78-page omnibus bill that is chalk full of energy-illiterate language. I’ve summarized…
The cons of the West 7th streetcar are that it will be expensive, disrupt the neighborhood for three years while it is built, serve fewer people, lengthen the journey, and…
This post originally appeared at katana community on January 24, 2019. This last Friday you may have seen a story on KARE11 or KSTP about how a Metro Transit Light Rail Transit (LRT) driver…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
If Metro Transit can’t hire drivers at $19.94, there is no need at all for a legally mandated minimum wage of $15.
Minneapolis has passed an ordnance raising the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020 and St. Paul is currently considering similar legislation. But why? If you are unsatisfied with…
One of the Met Council’s core functions is transit. I could not help wondering if the Council focused more on delivering good transit, rather than trying to re-arrange the metro…
That didn’t take long. Governor Dayton’s weekend veto of legislation to put more teeth into the law to punish protesters who shut down highways and transit lines already appears to…
American Experiment’s new campaign to rev up awareness of the policies and politics behind the Twin Cities’ traffic congestion has caught the attention of Fox 9 News reporter Christina Palladino. Getting…
One of leftist protesters’ go-to tactics involves shutting down freeways and blocking transit lines. The most notorious incident occurred in July 2016 when protesters took over I-94 following the death…
The Star Tribune reported yet another fatality, and suspension of normal service involving light rail trains. Does the "multi-model" approach favored by the Met Council and MnDOT make sense? Do…
Columnist and radio host Joe Soucheray has more than earned his stripes over the years as the staunchest opponent of the Twin Cities billion dollar light rail boondoggle. But now…
The Met Council’s controversial $2 billion Southwest Light Rail Transit line still hangs on by a thread. So do proposed LRT lines in Nashville, San Antonio and Tampa, among other…
For all I know, the FTA’s New Starts grant program tells applicants, “Lie to me, tell me what I want to hear so I can give you the billions in…
“Metropolitan Council staff told us they use one set of assumptions (based on historical state and local funding) when preparing their federal transportation financial plans, and different assumptions (based on…
“Metropolitan Council staff told us they use one set of assumptions (based on historical state and local funding) when preparing their federal transportation financial plans, and different assumptions (based on…
At least Americans were told upfront that candidate Trump planned to build a wall like it or not. But Minneapolis residents have found out the hard way about the Met…
The chairman of the controversial Metropolitan Council plans to step down at the end of July. Adam Duininck’s surprise announcement comes as the nation’s largest unelected regional government agency faces…
Minneapolis just became one of the first 100 cities in the world to hire a chief resilience officer. The new employee, former DFL legislator Rep. Kate Knuth, says it will…
One common argument in favor of mass transit is that it is "more environmentally ethical". In truth, Twin Cities transit about the same greenhouse gas emissions per passenger mile than…
The latest issue of the Center’s fantastic quarterly magazine, Thinking Minnesota, has a terrific piece by transportation expert Randal O’Toole that delineates all the reasons the Met Council screwed up…
Relying on fads, pseudoscientific planning and an enormous budget, the council has actually increased the cost of housing and created even greater traffic congestion.