By Matt Clark
Transit for Livable Communities
In Minnesota, we take care of our communities, but we’ve been remarkably shortsighted on transportation. The Twin Cities region has changed dramatically over the past 60 years. After World War II, the seven-county metropolitan area had around 1 million people. Today, the cities and suburbs have almost three times as many residents, and nearly a million more are expected to move here by 2030. That’s another Minneapolis, St. Paul, Bloomington, Duluth, and Brooklyn Center squeezed onto our region’s roads and transit network.