Congressman Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.), head of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has expressed his displeasure with an impasse in the negotiations covering how to enforce allowable levels of vibrations and electromagnetic interferences that trains on a new light rail system will cause. On Friday, negotiations broke down between the Met Council and the University of Minnesota over issues involving the route of the $957 million Central Corridor light rail transit, an 11-mile line that would connect the downtowns of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
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