Light rail usage booming in Minneapolis

The Star Tribune reports that use of the light-rail system there hit a
record 838,500 riders in the month of August.

A few weeks ago, they also published a piece on how the rail system is resulting in new development in long negelected parts of the city like the Greater Longfellow area of Minneapolis.

"For a long time, this area was kind of a lost part of Minneapolis, almost forgotten about, but now with light rail and the Hiawatha corridor development, we have all this attention." says Scott Paine, a real estate agent with Coldwell Banker. "It is a big change for the neighborhood as a whole."