Bob CollinsThe plan from a private group to build high-speed passenger rail between St. Paul and Rochester probably isn’t going anywhere. Read more →
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Tag: Transportation
The theory is that a second train would provide more reliability on a route that has absolutely none right now. Don’t get your hopes up. Read more →
In a state where getting an umlaut added to a road sign required gubernatorial intervention, it’s unlikely the idea will work here but a movement is growing to appeal to drivers’ hearts to get them to pay attention and stop killing people. Read more →
Maybe drivers get cut off. Maybe they spend too much time on smartphones, maybe the kids were screaming. Whatever.
We’re just not very good at this driving stuff.
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For seven years, Washington County taxpayers have been paying into the regional transportation pool, participating in a systemic buildout of public transportation, assured that although the priority was elsewhere, ‘your time will come.’
It probably won’t, if the Legislature has its way. Read more →
There’s really no good reason to require bicyclists to stop at stop signs. It’s possible to see and hear intersecting traffic earlier on a bike than it is in a car, which is the primary reason cars are required to stop — to give the driver a proper amount of time to assess the traffic situation.
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A Little Canada DFL senator wants 40 percent of transit sales-tax revenue to be spent “where 40 percent of the people reside,” on the east metro. West metro folks aren’t thrilled. Read more →
A train in Japan has set a new record for speed. The maglev train broke the record it set just last week when it reached 603 kilometers per hour, or about 375 miles per hour. Read more →
A lot of people are ripping off the system, the Pioneer Press reports today, citing an audit showing Green Line riders in particular are dodging fares. Read more →
Brig props today to Richard Chin of the Pioneer Press who answers a question we’ve had since the Green Line started running in downtown Saint Paul. What’s the story with that godawful machine gun sound signalling that it’s OK to cross the street? Read more →
High-speed rail between Rochester and the Twin Cities is never going to happen at the snail’s pace efforts have moved in recent years.
A Rochester group apparently has the solution — cut the government out of it. Read more →
If you want to get around the country’s 10th-largest metropolitan area, you better own a car today. Read more →
Some state legislators have a fear of intelligent data. A new bill is aimed at killing an alternative to the gas tax before it’s born. Read more →
The nice story about the reaction of people who pitched in to help a guy who has walked 21 miles for work in Detroit every day can’t just be a nice story about people pitching in to help a guy who has walked 21 miles for work in Detroit every day.
There’s a subtle belittling of the effort by those who favor better transportation options for people, as if people can’t stop a wound from bleeding and try to stop the war, too. Read more →
James Robertson, the Detroit man whose story of walking 21 miles a day for work and never missing a day of toil in the last 10 years prompted thousands of people to pitch in to give him a hand, has released a video via the Detroit Free Press with a pretty simple message. Read more →