Regionalism In Minneapolis-St. Paul

6 May 2004 - 2:00pm

What Cleveland can learn from Minneapolis-St. Paul.

"Several weeks ago I was in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area which, along with Portland, Oregon, has the most advanced regionalist system in the country...The Metropolitan Council is supposed to develop a plan to guide the area's growth in health, aviation, housing, transportation, recreational open space, solid waste management, sewerage disposal, surface water use and availability, and law and justice. The system has worked well on some occasions, not so well in others."

Source: The Cleveland Free Times, May 5, 2004
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The following list shows the top 10 metropolitan statistical areas, as defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, where commuting by public transportation has grown the most. None of them are among the nation's top 10 most populous metro areas, and yet seven are within the top 20.