Twin Cities: Planning For Growth
22 January 2002 - 2:00pm
Revised estimates show that one million additional people are expected to become a part of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metro area by 2020.
"Minneapolis-St. Paul simply cannot prosper in the coming decades if it is choked by traffic, stuck with an obsolete transit system, diminished in natural resources, short on affordable housing and configured in a way that places vast distances between homes, jobs and shopping...Naysayers in the Republican-controlled Minnesota House have stood firmly against incentives for transit and quality growth. But now, with big business against them, they'll find it harder to buck the overwhelming evidence that they're wrong."
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Star Tribune, January 20, 2002
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