Build it and they will come
The Twin Cities got its first taste of light rail transit a few years ago with the opening of the Hiawatha Line. This was after decades of fighting to build a rail system in the region over the complaints of suburbs — which were the recipients of some of the original design developments in the early 1980s.
Now, they’re the head cheerleaders to build light rail to their region.
I’m all for transit, and I believe it’s long overdue in the ‘Cities, but will someone check western Hennepin County leaders for brain malfunction?





Daniel Ross-Jones serves as Minister for Youth & Young Adults at First Congregational Church of Palo Alto, United Church of Christ. Living in the San Francisco Bay Area for a time still measured in months, he is frequently getting lost and discovering treasures of a landscape very different from his Upper Midwestern roots. Green Jello Hotdish is a blog exploring the intersections of his days. 

