What exactly are we buying here?

At the 1st meeting of the Central Corridor Management Committee, Mayor Coleman asked: "What exactly are we buying" with the $800,000,000 or more public transit dollars we're planning to spend on the Central Corridor Project? Arlene McCarthy, Director of Metropolitan Transportation Services for the Met Council, answered Mayor Coleman's critical question: "The Central (train in the middle of University and Washington Avenues) would essentially replace the route 50 limited-stop that is in operation today" and "The (already overcrowded) route 16, the local bus service, will continue, but not at the same (a reduced) frequency."

Big Business, Big Government, and Big University parking and road construction interests are guzzling at the public trough and draining public transit.

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[centralcorridor]

AS Arlene McCarthy, Director of Metropolitan Transportation Services for the Met Council, plainly states, the $billion concrete project "essentially replace(s) the Route 50 limited-stop" bus service and "The (already overcrowded) Route 16, the local bus service, will continue, but not at the same (a reduced) frequency."

[carterfamilyinstpaul]

Yeah - right. We'll get all of that while not helping transportation issues one bit. The people who use the line now it will not help significantly. The only way this is successfull is to change the neighborhoods it touches. It will need to change the populations and the structures to accomodate higher density housing and the business focus along the route. The current business will either need to relocate or they will fail.

[eluko79]

Why would someone hate trains so much.

Coleman probably wasn't paying attention during the meeting.

[eluko79]

Lame.