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Finley Olsen guided trains over a bridge and around some curved track at St. Paul's Union Depot on Sunday afternoon. The tracks were wooden and not quite as big as the real ones outside. Dressed in a striped conductor's hat and overalls that matched his blue glasses, the nearly 3-year-old has been "into trains for quite a while," said his mother, Molly. Hence the trek from Menomonie, Wis., to .
At a hearing on the matter Wednesday, MnDOT Commissioner Nancy Daubenberger said thanks for the vote of confidence but no thanks. The agency, she said, isn t equipped to take.
State lawmakers frustrated with the multitude of issues dogging the $2.9 billion Southwest light-rail project have introduced legislation that would give the Minnesota Department of Transportation the responsibility for building big public transit projects in the state — and not the Metropolitan Council. But at a hearing on the matter Wednesday, MnDOT Commissioner Nancy Daubenberger said .