[All] Minneapolis: Another LRT Success Story

[Robert Milligan]

FYI -- Notice that although it has a station-rich "Intensification  
Corridor" (as the picture suggests), most of its length appears to be  
along a "berm beside a busy freeway" thus great;ly decreasing average  
transit time. Our rail right-of-way (Ridership Corridor) would  
correspond to their highway berm. Also notice (if average transit time  
is fast enough, etc.) that ridership greatly exceeded predictions!
Robert

An excerpt:
Riding The Train
"Here in Minneapolis, riders of the Hiawatha Line readily express  
their support for rail transit. The line’s two-car trains travel the  
length of the city on narrow tracks inscribed into a berm beside a  
busy freeway. Setting out from its home station, underneath the Mall  
of America, the Hiawatha looks tiny, European — like a miniature tram  
traversing a Scandinavian city.
Before it was built, critics derided the proposal as a waste of money,  
and a “Train to Nowhere.” But by attracting passengers who would never  
ride a bus, the Hiawatha is also demonstrating why light rail is the  
fastest-growing form of public transportation in America."
http://apolloalliance.org/new-apollo-program/fast-track-for-national-rail-transit/

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