Southwest LRT Parking Won’t Take Over Minnetonka
The Southwest Light Rail project needs park and rides so commuters can use the trains.
Minnetonka appears to have escaped without large concentrations of parking spaces at its Southwest Light Rail Transit station. Parking is among the biggest worries for cities along the line. Local planners frequently worry that parking could create traffic problems and take land that could be used for redevelopment. But the Southwest LRT project also needs sufficient parking for the commuters who will make the line financially viable. The Draft Environmental Impact Statement assumed 15 of the 17 new stations would have park-and-ride facilities and estimated that the project would need 3,500 park-and-ride spaces along the line. Yet Minnetonka’s Opus station is expected to have just 60 parking spaces, according to a Finance & Commerce …
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