Zip Rail: Ban the ban, not the plan
Rep. Pat Garofalo’s bill banning public spending on high speed rail from Rochester to the Twin Cities does nothing to protect taxpayers and would be likely to do more harm than good.
Mike Hicks
Mike Hicks is a computer geek at heart, but has always had interests in transportation and urban planning. A longtime contributor to Wikipedia, he started a blog about trains and other transportation after realizing it had been two decades since he’d first heard about a potential high-speed rail line from Chicago to Minneapolis. Read more at http://hizeph400.blogspot.com/
Following the tracks of the Empire Builder
Locomotive engineers have to operate their trains much more strictly than the free-for-all we’re accustomed to from driving on streets and highways.
A rail identity crisis in Minneapolis
While the momentum behind existing transit projects in the Twin Cities shouldn’t be totally disrupted, it is clear that something has gone wrong with our list of priorities.
Seeking the transit-friendly highway
When done right, freeways are engineering marvels, but in the Twin Cities and elsewhere these routes ignore the needs of mass transit.
