Posted on 05/14/2012 11:08:33 AM PDT by DManA
State bonding money gives Duluth transit center the boost it needed been secured.
Work will begin this year on a $27.5 million Multimodal Transportation Center in downtown Duluth.
The Duluth Transit Authority, Mayor Don Ness, local legislators, and project partners are holding a news conference today to announce that the last funding needed for the project has been secured.
The project received an initial $16 million federal appropriation in 2010.
(Excerpt) Read more at duluthnewstribune.com ...
Be careful what you hope for. Conservative hopes were completely dashed in this session. This boondoggle is just the tip of the iceburg.
The party is run and populated by economic illiterates, statist bullys, and just plain imbusiles.
Really, what is the point. We are doomed.
It’s Minnesota. Conservative doesn’t exactly come to mind when I think of that state. I think of it more as a hippie food co-op populated by Scandinavians.
(By the way, Duluth is actually big enough to have mass transit?)
Oh yes, Duluth is big enough to have mass transit.
Buses heading to North Dakota and Wisconsin all the time.
No. Not at all. This was first proposed to handle passengers from a “Highspeed Rail” train from the Twin Cities. This was a boondoggle even to much for MN GOP to swallow and is for all practical purposes dead. So there is zero justification for a “transit hub” now.
Sorry, the rest of you are kicking in $16 million:
The project received an initial $16 million federal appropriation in 2010.
Duluth is approximately 100 square miles in size and is over 20 miles from west to east tip. So a case can be made for mass transit.
However, 'multi-modal' is slang for 'light rail'. Here it comes.
Of course, it won't make a bit of difference to anyone who lives in the greater Duluth area. But it will provide union construction jobs for a year or so and give the Mayor, local congress-critters, and a Senator or two some TV-face-time.
All said, who could ask for more?
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