Freight Rail Reroute on the Agenda This Week
Two Southwest LRT committees will discuss technical issues surrounding the controversial proposal.
The Southwest Light Rail Transit project’s freight rail reroute and co-location alternatives will be discussed at two meetings this week. The Southwest LRT Business Advisory Committee will take up the issue at a Wednesday morning that begins at 8 a.m. Technical issues having to do with the freight rail reroute and co-location options are expected to begin at 9:05 a.m. The Southwest LRT Community Advisory Committee will discuss the issue at a Thursday meeting that begin at 6 p.m. Discussion of the freight rail issues is scheduled to begin at 7:35 p.m. Both meetings are in Suite 500 of the Park Place West Building (6465 Wayzata Blvd., St. Louis Park). Freight rail routing has been particularly contentious part of the Southwest LRT project—…
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Kathryn Kottke
9:31 am on Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Nearby residents are not the only ones who are concerned about the safety hazards associated with rerouting significant freight from a mainline freight corridor to a lightly used spur line. TC & W's comments are published in the SWLRT DEIS (Draft Environmental Impact Statement), and they are more adamantly against the reroute than residents have been. In fact, according to their statements, … more ›