As one former resident of St. Paul to current residents you were foolish to give up on light rail and the Selby Avenue tunnel. Your freeways are crowded and dangerous and depend too much on the truck and automobile. The foolishness of 1960's redevelopment.

Thomas Joerger, East Coast, 06/03/05+13:10:03

Thomas,

We can all thank what appears to be a true rumor regarding GM, and money / power Hungry buisness men for taking down our once great public transportation. Light rail is back, and is growing, hopefully it will be a good way to commute when I get around to having children.

I wish the tunnel was open as some kind of a bike trail. Surely they could light it, and install cameras to make it a safe, and fun part of the St Paul park system ?

Matt W, Chanhassen MN, 08/09/05+05:03:11

The upper entrance to this tunnel was filled in, but there's a web site with pictures of the inside that some urban explorers discovered. I would imagine the tunnel would be too good a chance at running communications cables and such to give up entirely.

GM was responsible for requiring companies it owned via proxy to use GM buses when they converted from streetcars; streetcars had been falling victim to automobiles long before GM was involved with them. The real death of the Twin Cities Rapid Transit lines was a crooked and greedy fellow who bought them in order to make money.

Jacob Hugart, Saint Paul, 11/08/05+16:58:17