Transportation
Beyond The Motor City
Blueprint America: Beyond the Motor City examines how Detroit, a symbol of America’s diminishing status in the world, may come to represent the future of transportation and progress in America. Watch it here. Read more >
Complete Streets funding short $50 billion for next 20 years!
A recent front page article in the Star Tribune cited the head of MN-Dot warning that state transportation funding will face a $50 billion (yes, with a "B") dollar shortfall over the next 20 years. That is an huge amount of money in a state that with a total budget of about $15 billion dollars per year, and that typically spends about $1 billion dollars annually in road construction and maintenance.
But where does this number come from? It comes from a plan suggests a quixotic goal for the state: a transportation system where there are no traffic jams, where all cars are freely flowing at 50 mph almost all of the time. But is that really even possible? Read more >
Five years of Light Rail
From MPR:
Today marks five years of operation for the Hiawatha line, Minnesota's first light rail service. Ridership is much greater than projected, and that success has helped spark a debate over how te expand transit in the Twin Cities metro area, and how to pay for it. Read more >
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