Four years ago, leaders in Eden Prairie and Minnetonka resisted a planned light-rail line as an intrusion into suburbia. Now they think it's long overdue.
Why? Because reporters like Laurie Blake and Britt Robson listened to the PRTistas and reported their lies about PRT being better than LRT.
But, now things are different because...
...the popularity of the Hiawatha Line, which opened between downtown Minneapolis and the Mall of America in 2004, changed attitudes, said county planner Katie Walker.
...now, Laurie Blake who helped the PRTistas delay planning for LRT for years by spreading their anti-LRT message concedes that every tick of the clock means increasing costs for new LRT lines...
If the Southwest Corridor and the other lines are put off until after 2020, inflation will "eat you alive," said Hennepin County Commissioner Peter McLaughlin, chairman of a metro counties transit alliance. "We need to do more, faster. Otherwise it's going to cost more and we are going to leave people sitting in congestion for more and more years."
PRTistas like Bachmann, Olson and Phil Krinkie call themselves fiscal conservatives, but they are responsible for a delay in LRT planning and construction that will cost Minnesota taxpayers millions, perhaps billions more dollars because of inflation.
Here's an edited audio clip of Bachmann friend and Taxi 2000 lobbyist, Ed Cain testifying for Rep. Mark Olson's PRT bills back in 2005:
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