Many residents of the inner Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park are up in arms over a long-proposed reroute of freight rail traffic through their community. Before the start of a recent environmental impact hearing at St. Louis Park city hall related to the proposed rerouting, protestors waving signs saying “Stop the freight rail reroute!” or “Co-locate, not relocate” crowded outside to speak their minds. The majority of citizens who spoke at the meeting also were against trains like that pictured above from being re-routed through their town thanks to a light rail line displacing them from their current line.
The protest and hearing is the latest chapter in a long story that began in 1998.
