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Not a moment too soon in this frigid winter, Megabus www.megabus.com is moving its Twin Cities stop from the Midway Center parking lot to the Union Depot in downtown St. Paul. The low-cost intercity bus company with service to Madison, Milwaukee and Chicago will make the switch on Wednesday, Jan. 29. Continue Reading
Sixty years after the end of rail transit in Minnesota was celebrated with a streetcar blaze in the St. Paul Midway, it will return to the heart of the Twin Cities on June 14 with the grand opening of the Green Line light rail. Free rides on all Metro Transit routes and daylong festivities will mimic the hoopla that marked the final switch to bus service in 1954.
It’s only a slight decline, but Minnesota road fatalities resumed their decade-long downward trend last year, according to preliminary figures from the state Office of Traffic Safety. With 376 deaths reported so far and a projected total of 385 when all the numbers are in, a small improvement from 2012’s 395 looks likely. Continue Reading
In good economic times and bad, in days of tax reform or no new taxes no matter what, one fiscal consensus has held firm in Minnesota across the policy and political spectrum: robust capital invest
The light rail transit Green Line, nee Central Corridor, is still half a year away from launching passenger service between the Minneapolis and St. Paul downtowns. But thanks to Eccentric Aspects blogger Nick Wormley’s Herculean efforts, we all can get a sneak preview of the trip in time-lapse photography. Continue Reading
Why is a commuter train accident that claims 1 percent of Minnesota’s annual highway death toll front-page news 1,200 miles away? Multiple-fatality auto crashes right here seldom crack a Star Tribune cover. Continue Reading
While controversial new extraction techniques have quieted predictions of imminent global “peak oil” production that were rampant just a few years back, it’s becoming clear that another kind of pet Continue Reading
In six counties of west-central Minnesota, residents don’t need bus schedules or route maps to get around by public transit. They just call the Rainbow Rider dispatcher to schedule a pickup. It’s a common dial-a-ride system for rural transit, but one that’s become more efficient and economical thanks to recently introduced software called RouteMatch. Continue Reading
In a lurch toward sweet bipartisanship, the U.S. House of Representatives, AKA Shutdown Central, last week approved the long-delayed Water Resources Reform and Development Act by an astounding vote of 417 to 3.
A wide-ranging effort to plan new bicycle routes in the Twin Cities is nearing completion with two opportunities next week for riders to weigh in on preliminary maps drawn up by the Metropolitan Council and the Minnesota Department of Transportation. Continue Reading