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Green Line finds cars still take priority in St. Paul

Bob Collins July 21, 2014, 6:47 AM Jul 21, 2014

The Green Line project put stations after the intersection, meaning trains have to stop twice: once for the signal, and once for the station. Read more →

Why don’t more people take mass transit?

Bob Collins July 1, 2014, 7:50 AM Jul 1, 2014

Minneapolis is a fairly dense city, Alex Cecchini writes on streets.mn, but Minneapolitans don’t seem to use mass transit to the extent one would expect. He found 55 percent of the people in the zip codes he analyzed work within five miles of where they live, which should allow for a commute of 30 minutes Read more →