Riverview Corridor News Today

MnDOT must provide consulting and oversight for all future light rail projects, including Blue Line extension.

Finley Olsen guided trains over a bridge and around some curved track at St. Paul's Union Depot on Sunday afternoon. The tracks were wooden and not quite as big as the real ones outside. Dressed in a striped conductor's hat and overalls that matched his blue glasses, the nearly 3-year-old has been "into trains for quite a while," said his mother, Molly. Hence the trek from Menomonie, Wis., to ...

At a hearing on the matter Wednesday, MnDOT Commissioner Nancy Daubenberger said thanks for the vote of confidence — but no thanks. The agency, she said, isnt equipped to take...

State lawmakers frustrated with the multitude of issues dogging the $2.9 billion Southwest light-rail project have introduced legislation that would give the Minnesota Department of Transportation the responsibility for building big public transit projects in the state — and not the Metropolitan Council. But at a hearing on the matter Wednesday, MnDOT Commissioner Nancy Daubenberger said ...

The Minnesota Energy Infrastructure Permitting Act aims to shave 9-10 months off the process.

Officials are eyeing a plan that could replace a proposed streetcar line with a bus rapid transit line.

Transit planners are also studying a rapid electric bus line for what’s known as the Riverview Corridor in St. Paul.

We don’t need to become enslaved to another boondoggle that cannot possibly pay for itself.

"We’re raising your property taxes by over 6%" doesn’t sound as good as “an investment in our vision, values and strategic priorities.”

Travel times and cost estimates will be made public by Jan. 31.