Local View: NLX would benefit even Minnesotans who refuse to ride

Local View: NLX would benefit even Minnesotans who refuse to ride

“Trains are wonderful. … To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.” — Agatha Christie A resident of my apartment building told me they don’t plan to ever ride the Northern Lights Express, or NLX, between the Twin Ports and Twin Cities. They object to building the passenger rail line because they plan to never use it. Let’s consider that logic. It has been about 30 years since I las…

NLX Can Deliver the Freedom That Car Infrastructure Promises - Streets.mn

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared as an opinion column in the Duluth News-Tribune on January 21, 2025. “A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.”— Gustavo Petro, mayor of Bogotá, Colombia In a Duluth News Tribune letter to the editor, “NLX an endless money pit for taxpayers,” Terry Cartwright complained that taxpayer dollars spent to build and run the proposed Nort…