Community Corner
A Transit Fantasy: Take the Pink Line from Fridley to St. Paul?
It's part of one Streets.mn transit enthusiast's rethinking of future routes.
A Twin Cities transit plan proposed by a blogger at Streets.mn would include a high-capacity transit line connecting Fridley with downtown St. Paul.
Here is how David Levinson describes the route he envisions (see the post to find out more about the "bus tunnel"):
"A new “Pink line” running from Fridley to Saint Paul shares the Nicollet ”Bus Tunnel”. This follows the Minneapolis Streetcar starter line, running from Central Avenue in Fridley, just north of I-694 (again a giant park and ride lot), through Hilltop, Columbia Heights, East Hennepin, into the Bus Tunnel, emerging at the Midtown Greenway running east, crossing Hiawatha, into St. Paul along the railway tracks and Ayd Mill Road, to Grand Avenue, into downtown St. Paul on 7th."
Levinson's post also appears at the Twin Cities Daily Planet website.
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