Talk:Northstar Line

Corridor
The Northstar Corridor is the area between the Twin Cities and St. Cloud, Minnesota, that follows I-94 and US Highway 10. The proposed commuter rail system this article focuses on is the Northstar Commuter Rail. The article name should be changed to reflect this since it only has information on the commuter rail line. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 15:58, July 9, 2007 (talk) 192.234.136.23
 * There's not quite enough material on either subject. I say we consolidate here until it warrants a spin off. The Rail line is one part of several solutions. .:DavuMaya:. 19:22, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
 * It seems to me this entire article is on the commuter rail. Plus I'm not sure the corridor itself warrants its own article, whereas the commuter rail line certainly does. Pete5914 (talk) 06:05, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
 * In that case, do you want Northstar Commuter Rail or Northstar Line? The Hiawatha Corridor for example is now just known as the Hiawatha Line. .:DavuMaya:. 06:13, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmm, good question. As I understand it, 'Northstar' will be positioned more as a 'brand' of commuter trains, rather than this single line, as there is talk of running a second Northstar commuter rail line to Bethel in the future. I could be mistaken, but for this reason I'd suggest Northstar Commuter Rail as the best (and safest) alternative. Further, I have rarely heard this called the 'Northstar Line' without it first being referenced to as 'Northstar Commuter Rail' Pete5914 (talk) 00:30, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * It's operating now. All of the stations have signs at their entrances saying "Northstar Line", so we may need to rename this article to reflect that eventually. &mdash;Mulad (talk) 00:26, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Ridership
Do we know when December 2009's full monthly numbers will be reported? Prk166 (talk) 23:17, 26 January 2010 (UTC)


 * I haven't seen real numbers reported yet WCCO had a story saying that "ridership on the new Northstar Commuter Rail Line for the first month exceeded expectations by 3 percent -- to more than 49,000 people." -- but I'm not sure what that means (Which month? What were the expectations? What's the daily average? Is 49,000 just for weekday riders?). Metro Transit usually submits quarterly data to the APTA, which seems to be the preferred datasource for Wikipedia, though it takes about 3 months for the APTA to put out their reports.  Hopefully Metro Transit will remember to submit the data, and hopefully the APTA will average things out over the days it was actually open rather than the full quarter, etc... &mdash;Mulad (talk) 02:50, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

TIGER grants
I don't think that the 99 million for a 3rd rail near the Fridley station was granted. Can this be confirmed so we can remove it from this and the northern lights express page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by MZBKA (talk • contribs) 17:06, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

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