Legislature: Stop sidetracking passenger rail in Minnesota

MinnPost - October 20, 2020

After four bitterly partisan special sessions, the Minnesota legislators succeeded in passing a public works infrastructure package at the close of their fifth go-around. While our legislators may have surmounted their bonding bill hurdle at last, at the close of the fifth special session, the status of one issue hadn’t changed at all: $10 million in essential matching funds for the Twin Cities-Milwaukee-Chicago (TCMC) “second train” project were nowhere to be seen. Read More

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