Author: David Markle

David Markle

About David Markle

David Markle, a native Minnesotan, has spent most of his life in Minneapolis, aside from a year in Boston, and several years in Europe courtesy of the US Army, where he enjoyed the subterranean Parisian and London heavy rail and the streetcars of Nuremberg and Copenhagen. He does acoustical design and writes.

Strangulation on the Green Line

• July 7, 2014

Public officials and planners made a huge mistake when they chose to place the Central Corridor “Green Line” Light Rail Transit (LRT) on University Avenue. Enchanted by federal money and obsessed with dreams of economic development, they forgot the obvious purpose for a light rail train: better mass transit. We must recognize this huge error […]