Pork boondoggle on the central corridor LRT

I have never understood the logic of the Central Corridor LRT. It's slower that the express bus to St. Paul and it will cause major traffic problems on University Ave. Now they want to spend a quarter billion dollars to tunnel under the U of MN campus. Washington Avenue is indeed chocked. With the Ford plant now scheduled to close in 2009 a south route to downtown St. Paul might be a better option. Basically, the LRT could use the Ford Bridge and be at the Ford plant rail lines. These lead to downtown St. Paul lower town and the depot. The main remaining rail customer is the Ford plant. The train could switch just before the Ford bridge. Another option is the "east of Hiawatha, south of Lake Street" rail corridor. We have a metal scrapyard and one grain elevator still running. It could also use the 27th street rail corridor. The "bike way" is land technically on loan.







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