Public Comments Solicitation for Third Light Rail Line (Southwest Corridor) (Nicollet: house, live)

[Camden Northsider]

As the Light Rail lines (current and proposed) have garnered so much lively discussion (and some genuinely good ideas & information) on this board, I was just wondering if any interested parties saw the below Strib article and/or were planning on publicly commenting on the proposed Southwest Corridor line.

Is this finally something that us city folk and suburbanites can both agree upon? ....a bridge to bring us together dare-I-say?

Which route should a third light-rail line take? (broken link)

[Minnehahapolitan]

Just as long as they don't put it down Nicollet or Hennepin.

[Slig]

I would like to think it is something we can agree upon. I like the idea to go under Nicollet Ave. If they could pull that off it would be pretty amazing.

[Ben Around]

As a city-dweller and -lover, I support light rail for the SW burbs. I think it will eventually re-centralize the workplaces in the Twin Cities, benefitting all of us, metro-wide. It will also give people who want a suburban lifestyle a strong incentive to leave their car at home when they go to work. And to their benefit, it will raise their property values relative to burbs farther away from the LRT line. It's a great anti-sprawl, pro-subutban strategy I would hope we could all agree on!

[Clifford63]

Originally Posted by Ben Around

As a city-dweller and -lover, I support light rail for the SW burbs. I think it will eventually re-centralize the workplaces in the Twin Cities, benefitting all of us, metro-wide. It will also give people who want a suburban lifestyle a strong incentive to leave their car at home when they go to work. And to their benefit, it will raise their property values relative to burbs farther away from the LRT line. It's a great anti-sprawl, pro-subutban strategy I would hope we could all agree on!

At the high level this expansion makes a lot of sense. When you get down to paying for it, it gets more difficult. Particulary true when economics are such that many people are having trouble making house payments.