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Met Council wasn’t transparent about Southwest light-rail costs, delays, auditor says
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Metropolitan Council continued to spend millions on the $2.7 billion Southwest light-rail line even though there wasn't enough money to finish a project that had already become rife with ...
Met Council: Funding to plug SWLRT shortfall to be identified by end of year
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Metropolitan Council expects to reveal by the end of the year how it will satisfy a $534 million...
Communities waver on Blue Line light-rail extension
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA plan to extend light-rail service to the northern suburbs faces opposition from an unusual quarter: leaders in the communities it's supposed to serve....
Bill would give MnDOT the lead on big transit projects, not the Met Council
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 2 months agoState lawmakers frustrated with the multitude of issues dogging the $2.9 billion Southwest...
Met Council engineer sues his employer, saying it illegally inflated cost of Southwest LRT
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 4 months agoAn engineer who worked on the troubled $2.9 billion Southwest light-rail line claims in a federal lawsuit he was demoted and his career sabotaged by the Metropolitan Council because he called ...
Cost of Blue Line extension could exceed the Southwest light rail
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe Blue Line light-rail extension between downtown Minneapolis and Brooklyn Park will cost between $2.9 billion and $3.2 billion, according to a new estimate released Wednesday. "My view is ...
Group tasked with reforming Met Council offers lawmakers six options
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 4 months agoA group tasked by the Legislature with reforming the Metropolitan Council will wrap up its work...
North Minneapolis businesses concerned about Blue Line LRT
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 12 months agoSome north Minneapolis business owners in the W. Broadway corridor, the area's cultural and commercial heart, say they're feeling increasingly uneasy as plans pick up for the Blue Line extension ...
The latest SWLRT problem: Wrong placement of tracks
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 2 months agoOn a hunch, Marion Collins took a giant tape measure last December and calculated the distance between light-rail and freight-rail tracks installed near her Minneapolis home for the Southwest ...
Light rail runs into new obstacle in North Loop: Key utility lines
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 1 month agoTransit planners say two major Xcel Energy underground electric transmission lines will need to be moved to make way for the $3 billion Blue Line light rail extension in Minneapolis' North Loop ...
