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Gordy’s Transportation Tales: Final message to Mac

By Gordy Moore This week’s edition of The Mac Weekly is the very last of my college career, so it is fitting that in it I will discuss one of the central issues I’ve studied during my college career: transit and transit funding. To put it bluntly, Minnesota Republicans have drafted a bill that, if…

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Gordy’s Transportation Tales: A better 63? Transport updates

This week, I decided to focus exclusively on local transportation news and updates! There’s been a recent spate of announcements and some fresh controversy, so I am going to lay it out for you all. I’ll be discussing a wide variety of ongoing and proposed transportation projects in the Twin Cities—here goes nothing! To begin…

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Gordy’s Transportation Tales: Don’t take transit directions at face value

When discussing transit with Macalester community members, I often hear what sounds like ‘transit sticker shock,’ or the reaction of an average person looking at the transit option when using Google Maps. Especially when viewing the transit route directions from the car-centric paradigm that is both Google Maps and American society, it is easy to…

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LOVE THY NEIGHBORHOOD: Crash Course to Twin Cities Transit

Macalester is one of the few small liberal arts colleges located in a thriving urban neighborhood. This coupled with easy access to mass transit allows us to explore many of the great neighborhoods found within the cities. Whether you are a senior who hopes to discover new places or a first year who is wondering…

Columns, Features, Love Thy Neighborhood

Love Thy Neighborhood: Thinking beyond the Green Line

For a place with only one light-rail line open, the Twin Cities have had an awful lot of news about mass transit recently. It seems almost daily that another story is written about the Green Line. It opens on June 14 so I won’t be discussing it too much — I intend to focus on…

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Gordy’s Transportation Tales: Final message to Mac

Gordy’s Transportation Tales: A better 63? Transport updates

Gordy’s Transportation Tales: Don’t take transit directions at face value

LOVE THY NEIGHBORHOOD: Crash Course to Twin Cities Transit

Love Thy Neighborhood: Thinking beyond the Green Line

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