Louisville leaders tour Twin Cities transit facilities
Central Corridor LRT Project Director Mark Fuhrmann gave a transit tour on Monday, Sept. 8, to a group of business and civic leaders from Louisville, Ky., who are considering building a commuter rail line between Louisville and Fort Knox, Ky., to serve the expanding Army base there. Fuhrmann pointed out the new Minneapolis Multimodal Station and the new Minnesota Twins ballpark, which are under construction at the western edge of downtown Minneapolis. The station will serve Hiawatha LRT trains and Northstar commuter trains, which will begin service in 2009 over 40 miles of BNSF Railway track from Big Lake. Central Corridor trains will travel the last mile in downtown Minneapolis over Hiawatha tracks and will terminate at this new station, too, when the Twin Cities' second light rail line begins service in 2014. Fuhrmann, who also was chief financial officer of the Hiawatha LRT Project and is in charge of Northstar, explained to the Louisville group that LRT trains operate on their own tracks within an urban area while commuter trains operate over longer distances with fewer stops on existing freight railroad tracks.
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