{"id":699,"date":"2004-09-28T08:56:54","date_gmt":"2004-09-28T13:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2004\/09\/28\/busway-why-not-lrt\/"},"modified":"2004-12-01T18:31:57","modified_gmt":"2004-12-02T00:31:57","slug":"busway-why-not-lrt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2004\/09\/28\/busway-why-not-lrt\/","title":{"rendered":"Busway? Why not LRT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article out today in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/\">Star Tribune<\/a> discusses a study regarding a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/stories\/462\/5003652.html\">dedicated busway on 35W <\/a> to alleviate the traffic situation.<\/p>\n<p>While I am in favor of expanding our mass transit options in the city, <strong>they are only studying buses.<\/strong> In the face of the overwhelming success of the Hiawatha Light Rail line, in which for every period measured ridership has doubled the projections, they are not even considering light rail.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bus service is the only transit option being considered to alleviate traffic congestion on I-35W south of downtown.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why? Since they are not studying Light Rail as an option, we have no idea how this would compare in terms of cost.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have numbers and figures in front of me, but I believe studies in other muncipalities have shown that in the long term, 20-40 years, light rail will be the cleaner, safer and more cost-effective solution. If we are not planning for the long term in this city, what are we planning for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article out today in the Star Tribune discusses a study regarding a dedicated busway on 35W to alleviate the traffic situation. While I am in favor of expanding our mass transit options in the city, they are only studying buses. In the face of the overwhelming success of the Hiawatha Light Rail line, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trains"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-bh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}