The metro transit suggests ending the Northstar passenger track in January

After the inspection in February, she was considering closing the Northstar passenger rail, and metro transcription officials now recommend the end of January of the train line between the city center of Minneapolis and Lake Beige.

the an offer On Wednesday, the Metropolitan Council Committee hears improved bus service to replace the 16 -year -old. It will provide more flights during the day, keep similar travel times and weekends – but at a cost of less passenger track.

The MET Council is expected to vote on the plan August 27.

Northstar began working in 2009, and at its height before birth, a maximum of 2660 flights per week. Covid-19 was hit in 2020 and passengers were not fully recovered.

By 2024, the average number of days of the week decreased to 430. When the line was opened for the first time, the transit metro witnessed 5590 days of the week by 2025.

At the same time, its passengers decreased, and the operating costs rose.

Metro Transit said it costs the provision of 40 weekly trips in 2025 of what it was to save 72 in 2019. Many of this cost are not transferred to the cyclists.

The taxpayers cost $ 116.60 per tripstar trip, according to the Metro Transit offer to the committee. Passengers pay only $ 6.25 to ride from the end of the line to the other. The agency said this support is the second highest among other 29 US railway lines in 2023.

The gap also means that the line works in a financial deficit. It costs about $ 11.6 million to operate Northstar in 2023, but the line raised $ 323,589 in prices, According to the MNDOT study issued in February.

Meanwhile, passenger bus service is $ 16.07 per trip.

The agency officials said that the replacement of trains with bus service with a similar repetition would cost $ 2 million every year.

Before formulating its suggestion, a transit metro of bicycles was requested to fill online polls and hold four public meetings, including one on the train, to help inform future bus service. Most of the proposed methods will be operated every 30 minutes.

If the council approves the plan later this month, the passenger train last week will be on January 2. Last week’s train will be January 3 or January 4, after the final match of the normal season.

The sound player above was used to listen to a conversation between Minnesota for the host of host Chris Farrell and Eric Lind, the director of access to the Transport Studies Center at the University of Minnesota.

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