By: Dagny on 10/29/09
Jim Oberstar could get money for this in a heartbeat. He's the chairman of the Committee on Transportation ond Infrastructure, and manages to get funding for any number of inane projects in his district. Unfortunately, the rest of the state is of little concern to him.

By: Ifarm on 10/29/09
It is truly a shame that the clearly unnecessary Mayo Clinic/Rochester Bypass Railroad to Nowhere is causing severe delays by complicating the completion of the Hwy 14 project. This road is called "the killing road" with good reason. How many more people will have to die? Hwy 14 clearly does present an "imminent threat". As far as I know, in the century and a half that it has been going through town, no one has ever died in Rochester from an accidental hazmat release caused by the railroad! It is clearly shameful that we are being forced to spend legislators time and taxpayers money because the Mayo Clinic wants to move the freight line out of town on the basis of a trumped up perceived "health and safety threat" (the railroad is by far the safest means of transporting goods we have, and the same shipment on road is 16 times more likely to have an accident), when that time and money should be used to get this "killing road" upgraded immediately, so that we really WOULD be saving lives.