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Senate proposes $800M transportation funding plan
The package is likely to face resistance from House Republicans, who unveiled their own transportation plan last week
Read More »Ideas abound to fund roads, transit
The House GOP and transportation advocates offer their plans to improve roads and bridges and expand transit.
Read More »Park Board seeks federal intervention in Southwest rail project
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is asking the Federal Transit Administration to intervene, a decision supporters worry will jeopardize the $1.65 billion project.
Read More »Designer tapped for Red Line fix in Eagan
The Metropolitan Council is scheduled to award an $886,000 contract for design and construction support services to St. Paul-based Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc. for the median station stop and skyway connection to the station.
Read More »This year’s signature issue: transportation
Transportation infrastructure is as critical to us as water and sewage treatment--a breakdown in either will destroy a region as quickly as a plague.
Read More »Met Council tweaks transportation policy plan
The new plan--scheduled for discussion by the full council in January--includes several references to growing highway congestion and calls for further study and working with counties and cities to understand arterial highways.
Read More »Robert Street transit plan waits for more analysis
Backers of the potential line want communities to re-evaluate land-use and comprehensive plans within the study area to see if changes will make a transit investment more successful and attract more private development.
Read More »Officials revive plans for Northfield rail connection
A a grass-roots effort is underway to convince the Minnesota Department of Transportation to study an “inter-city passenger rail” line that would serve south central Minnesota cities.
Read More »List of transit-oriented development sites narrowed
Metro Transit’s new transit-oriented development office has narrowed down a list of 110 Met Council-owned properties along transit lines to 62 parcels for further analysis as potential joint development opportunities.
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