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Posted By: jay behrens

You actually think widening the freeway one lane will make any difference? I lived in CA for for over 20 years. Widening freeways did absolutely nothing to relieve traffic congestion. It's just made it worse because people thought that with added lanes they could quit taking BART, etc and start driving again because there were more lanes.

The train line may be short and not serve a large area now, but you have to start somewhere. Look at SF's BART system. It start fairly small with grand plans. Sadly, it took over 25 years to finally get it to the SF airport, which was it's main goal from inception. At least this train already gets you to the airport and downtown. Once it gets to Maple Grove, it will make things a lot more convenient for those of us that live north and west of The Cities.

Mass transit will never work if you adding more lanes and more roads.

Jay

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