Tag: Met Council
Southwest LRT Funding Takes Another Hit
MINNEAPOLIS - The Metropolitan Council’s Southwest Light Rail Transit (SWLRT) project continues to face funding challenges.
Following months of contention, the Counties Transit Improvement Board...
Lewis Bill to Stop Met Council Expansion Moves Forward
WASHINGTON - A bill to stop the expansion of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO’s) passed the Transportation & Infrastructure committee in the United State House...
Legislators Tightening Leash on Met Council
GOP pushing for reforms to rein-in Met Council power
ST. PAUL, MINN - Lawmakers at the Minnesota State Legislature are pushing to make some...
Feds Say Southwest Light Rail Funds Can’t Be Redirected to Roads...
Republican lawmakers think SWLRT funds would be better suited on other transportation projects
St. Paul, MN - The Federal Transportation Administration (FTA) say Southwest Light...
Minnesota Republicans Seek to Shut Southwest Light Rail Down
“The gift that keeps on taxing.” - Sen. Osmek
ST. PAUL, Minn -- In a bicameral effort, Republicans in St. Paul are looking to...
Viral Video Explains Need for Reform of MN’s Met Council
MINNEAPOLIS, MN -- Minnesota’s Met Council has been put on notice by one prominent Minnesota Republican.
Hennepin County Commissioner and former candidate for Governor Jeff...
Are Minnesota’s Mega-Transportation Projects in Jeopardy Thanks to Trump?
St. Paul, MN - Republican President-elect Donald Trump chose the country’s Transportation Secretary Tuesday, picking Elaine Chao, the former labor secretary and wife of...
![By basic_sounds [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](https://alphanews.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Dufferin_TTC_Station_4433575365-324x160.jpg "More and More Riders Dodge Paying for Light Rail")
More and More Riders Dodge Paying for Light Rail
Minneapolis, MN- The percent of people who ride the light rail without paying is rising as total ridership is also increasing.
Numbers that will be...