The cost of Minnesota's most expensive public works project has more than doubled to $2.7 billion in a decade, according to a legislative audit of the Southwest light rail project released Friday.
Republican lawmakers in Minnesota said Monday they would try to shift federal funding away from a planned light-rail route between Minneapolis and its southwestern suburbs and spend it instead on general road and bridge repair.
Public-private partnerships are vital as cities scramble to accommodate a fast-rising urban population and shifting infrastructure needs, but parties on both sides need to be more innovative when it comes to working together.
A commission looking to expand transit options in the east metro is lining up in support of a plan that would create a bus rapid transit line between downtown St. Paul and Woodbury, Minn., largely along Hudson Road.
With light-rail construction engulfing the University of Minnesota, campus is covered in hard hats and neon vests. But few of those are worn by female workers.
The future of public transit in the Interstate 94 corridor between Minnesota and Wisconsin shed a couple of "ifs" when transportation officials and consultants declared a dedicated St. Croix River crossing a no-go.
More construction crews soon could descend on Milwaukee's Menomonee Valley Industrial Center, a once-dilapidated landscape that has undergone a decade-long revival.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department says the joint venture that built the Hiawatha light-rail line in Minneapolis has agreed to pay the government $4.6 million. The settlement resolves allegations that Minnesota Transit Constructors Inc. submitted false claims. Minnesota ...
By Bill Clements Dolan Media Minneapolis — To Lake Elmo, Minn., Mayor Dean Johnston, the reason for doing long-term planning for a new transit corridor from Minneapolis to Eau Claire, Wis., is pretty simple. It’s to keep the taxpayers happy ...