Jack asked who ever said lrt would be any help at the dome. If you go through the various documents and puffery about "why it should be built", you find city staffers advocating for the separate siding and others talking about it eliminating congestion at games. I agree with Jack that it's stupid to think that it would have any real effect on congestion at games. Guess what, those pushing for lrt or a busway on West 7th Street in Saint Paul are using the Wild as a justification. They are even less likely to have customers using such a line than the dome does. Richard Carney asks who will pay the overruns. By definition, if a federal Full Funding Grant Agreement is signed, the city, county, and state are on the hook for all overruns because the terms require that the project must be completed and operated for the full term of the agreement (20 or 30 years) or all federal funds granted by the agreement must be repaid. As a side note, they tried a big push in San Diego to get people to use the trolley to go to a big game (world series or superbowl). Even the mayor rode it. Had a big problem when the line totally stopped something like 30 minutes before game time. It was eventually restarted (possibly by only having so many trains in operation at one time) and people got to the game just before it started. I think that there were more problems after the game. The mayor said that he wouldn't use the trolley again to get to the stadium. Bruce Gaarder Highland Park Saint Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
