Ride the choo choo falls from favor

[Manonthestreet]

Covid and crime = 1, 2 knock out. minus 95% of commuters.

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But Schulte says remote work and commuters' fears about safety in downtown Minneapolis may have forever changed how Northstar operates — or whether it even continues.

 

[Rigby5]

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After remote work took hold during the outbreak, ridership on the Northstar line ferrying commuters between downtown Minneapolis and Big Lake plunged a whopping 95%. Through August, just 26,374 riders had taken Northstar this year.

Talk has surfaced once again about Northstar's fate, with some suggesting it should be mothballed and replaced with bus service.

Scott Schulte, chair of the Anoka County Board, said ridership on Northstar has been disappointing since service began in 2009 and that the pandemic has underscored the need to do something about it.

"There's nobody on the train and we're paying full fare," he said.

For now, Northstar service has been cut back to four trips a day during the week. There's no weekend schedule or forays to downtown for special events.
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To reduce global warming, save fossil fuel, etc., we need WAY MORE mass transit.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

"fears about safety in downtown Minneapolis"

And now after the election tomorrow, Minneapolis may soon be seeing and even uglier safety problem as voters are posed to shut down their police altogether. Dimocrats are insane.

 

[Rigby5]

"fears about safety in downtown Minneapolis"

And now after the election tomorrow, Minneapolis may soon be seeing and even uglier safety problem as voters are posed to shut down their police altogether. Dimocrats are insane.

Police really did not exist in any quantity until 1900.
I think we did much better without them.
The police do what those that sign their paycheck tell them to do, which is not what we want them to do,
They can't be trusted when their bosses get too corrupt.
Which is inevitable.