Tuesday, August 20, 2002

Light Rail is being pushed back yet again. I'm so anxious for this to start up. I'm not even entirely sure that it will be something I will use on a regular basis, but I do know that it is something this city needs pretty badly. Although we have the glorious MNDOT on our side keeping the outstate roads in good condition, our metro road system still falls far behind other metro areas in the country. They simply can't keep up with the number of cars on the road, usually due to funding issues (or just slow planning). How ironic that light rail is being delayed for funding issues, but at least they had to set an opening date. I find this portion of the article humorous: "Citing uncertain funding from the next Legislature, Metro Transit officials delayed the opening so they could work with a new administration and lawmakers." (In other words, they're waiting for Mr. Ventura to be out of office and to get their funding back.)

Wednesday, August 07, 2002