Central Corridor Coordinating Committee
The Central Corridor Coordinating Committee is a workgroup in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area set up to explore transit options for the Central Corridor, the interurban corridor roughly following University Avenue in the Twin Cities area. After a long period of examination, this committee narrowed transit options for the corridor from a broad universe of choices to just three: a no-build option where services are only incrementally improved, a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) option, wherein buses run on semi-dedicated transitway, and a Light Rail Transit (LRT) option using Light Rail Vehicles (LRVs). In May 2006 the CCCC concluded its study by publishing a Draft Environmental Impact Study, which concluded that LRT was the best option for the corridor. After a period of public meetings and public comment, the CCCC recommended on June 6, 2006 that the Metropolitan Council select LRT as the locally-preferred alternative for the corridor and apply for Preliminary Engineering to begin.[1] On June 28, 2006, the Metropolitan Council concurred with the CCCC's decision and officially selected LRT as the locally-preferred alternative.[2]
Metropolitan Council manages all transit, waterway, and other public resources for the seven-county area surrounding the Twin Cities, and as such, the Central Corridor project will now transition to Metropolitan Council. The work of the Central Corridor Coordinating Committee is now complete.
[edit] References
- ^ Blake, Laurie (June 6, 2006). "Trains, not Buses on Central Corridor". Minneapolis Star-Tribune. http://www.startribune.com/462/story/477369.html. Retrieved 2006-06-07.[dead link]
- ^ "Metropolitan Council approves light rail along Central Corridor". Metropolitan Council. June 28, 2006. http://www.metrocouncil.org/news/2006/news_537.htm.
- "Welcome to the Central Corridor". Central Corridor Coordinating Committee. http://www.centralcorridor.org/. Retrieved 2006-06-29.
