Community leaders are closing in on options needed to chop $341 million from the Southwest Corridor light-rail line plans by July.Where to end the line, you ask? How about at Target Field?
On Wednesday, city and county leaders assessed the possible cuts and the big question: Where to end the line? The group informally dismissed two of four scenarios that would end the line at two stations in Eden Prairie because they wouldn’t save enough money in the $2 billion transit project and would disproportionately affect the southwestern suburb.
But they're making progress, doncha know:
It was an important step forward,” said Adam Duininck, who chairs the Metropolitan Council and the committee. “And we’re helping lay a good framework.”Yep, real progress:
No decisions were made at Wednesday’s meeting, and no options have been formally rejected. The group will meet again on June 24 to continue whittling down ideas before a scheduled July 1 vote.That's not precisely true, since the option that has been formally rejected is not building the damned thing in the first place.
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Two billion bucks for a line that serves....OK....maybe 200,000 people along it? And maybe (a third being kids, most adults not working in Minneapolis) a tenth will use it.....it would be cheaper to buy everyone in Chaska, Chanhassen, Eden Prairie, Edina, and part of Minneapolis their own Lexus.
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