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 ›