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Monday, January 7, 2013

Park and Ride Worries Top Hopkins’ Thoughts on Southwest LRT Project

The city’s comments on the draft environmental impact statement focused heavily on how park and rides would affect the community.

The City of Hopkins is urging planners to use caution when considering building park and rides at the three Southwest Light Rail Transit stations planned in the community. The public comment period on the project’s draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) closed Dec. 31. The DEIS will be used to judge project impacts and is the primary document for review by federal, state and local agencies and the general public. Hopkins’ official comments include modest corrections, notes about omissions and details about upcoming development plans. Yet much of the discussion centers on the city’s worries about park and rides at the three stations—Blake Road, Downtown Hopkins and Shady Oak. Click on the PDF to the right of this article to read the …

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James Warden

9:04 am on Monday, January 14, 2013

Here's the preview story I did on the proposed bus cuts: http://hopkins.patch.com/articles/metro-transit-considers-cutting-some-hopkins-bus-service I'll have a more-detailed look after I hear Tuesday's presentation.   more ›

Friday, October 12, 2012

Key Southwest LRT Study Published for Public Review

Officials are seeking input on the draft environmental impact statement released Friday morning.

The Southwest Light Rail Transit Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) is available for public comment following publication in the Federal Register on Friday. The DEIS will be used to judge the impacts of the proposed Southwest LRT project and is the primary document for review by federal, state and local agencies and the general public. It documents: The DEIS is available for review at http://www.southwesttransitway.org. Hard copies are also available. A list of locations where those copies are kept is included at the bottom of this article. Public input on the DEIS will be used to inform preliminary engineering, which is scheduled to begin in early 2013. The public comment period will last 60 days. The deadline to submit comments …

Jack Donovan

3:13 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012

Hey -- the freight rail will be coming through the heart of SLP -- Dorfman guarantees it...she is intent on keeping the old girls club bond strong and upholding the politcal deal cut by Dee Long...Gail -- what's happened to you? Have you finally become what you hate? A politician with no scruples?   more ›

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