Hello list: The following is from today's Startribune: Rails have been installed along the route from Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis to 54th Street in south Minneapolis. An eight-bay maintenance building near E. Franklin Avenue is finished and ready to receive the first train car in February or March. And crews are branching out from the maintenance facility, stringing the overhead copper wires that will carry power to the trains.
Sheila sez: I drive along Hiawatha every morning going west from my house in Standish to work. When I heard the above on MPR this morning I was surprised and thought to myself, 'wow, they must have made real progress this weekend, because last week they did not have rails laid down west of the tunnel after Minnehaha parkway' Folks - I drove Hiawatha again this morning and there are *no* rails laid down just before the tunnel and certainly not after the tunnel up to 52nd street. In fact, there is a part of the rail bed *after* the tunnel that *does not* have even gravel yet. So do we have invisible rails? Sheila Cracraft Fehler Standish, yes, we like LRT at my house. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
