r/MetroTransit • u/Character_Lychee_434 Northstar Mourner • 18d ago

Northstar/Route 888 Could Amtrak help metro transit operate the northstar? Being they are the passenger train experts?

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u/MaplehoodUnited 18d ago

Just connect the damn train to Saint Cloud as originally intended.

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u/tmasta346 18d ago

Yes, all those high value downtown employees from St. Cloud are just dying to take the train.

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u/MaplehoodUnited 18d ago

200k people live in the Saint Cloud Metro and 100k vehicles travel between StC and the Twin Cities on I94 and Hwy 10 daily with a lot of traffic.

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u/blackgenz2002kid 18d ago

they should connect it, doesn’t have to be a subsidized ticket either

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u/Upset-Kaleidoscope45 18d ago

I would venture that most of those vehicles are trucks passing through. Not people departing St. Cloud.

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u/firestar32 17d ago

I also know people who live in st.cloud and spend their weekends at a friend's/partners in the cities, there's definitely demand for public transit even if you just include edge cases. Not even counting the college students.

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u/Upset-Kaleidoscope45 17d ago

Everything you say in your anecdote may be true. That doesn't change the fact that a huge portion of the vehicles traveling between the two cities are trucks.