Paul Rohlfing wrote > As a Powderhorn resident, I can't wait for light rail rides to the airport > and to all the restaurants and bars downtown. .... > What would a mature light rail system look like?
http://www.metrocouncil.org/Planning/transportation/TranPlan2025%208x10%20Sept%20Final.pdf Above is a link to the Metropolitan Council's website. The Council is the region's Metropolitan Planning Organization, which means it is designated by the federal government as being in charge of coordinating all of the regional transportation planning. This link shows a 2002 plan for transitways in the region. (transitways are typically corridors where transit can operate separately from auto traffic using various modes, light rail, commuter, rail, and bus rapid transit are the three contemplated for the region) It shows 11 potential transit corridors. Understand that there are fairly limited numbers of options for siting these things as you can only put them where some corridor already exists unless you want to condemn out literally miles of homes and businesses. At this point, this map is going to be updated as part of the update for the region's Transportation Policy Plan which should be complete by the end of the year. There are a couple of changes to the map that will probably occur, including dropping the NE Diagonal (not particularly feasible) and Riverview (which was proposed to be a dedicated transitway but has been scaled back to just improvements to the street service due to budget cuts) and the addition of a I-35W bus rapid transit. For anyone who wants to read about the region's transportation policy plan, the 2001 plan is available at: http://www.metrocouncil.org/planning/transportation/TPP/tppindex.htm Carol Becker Longfellow REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
