Let's talk transportation — as in freight, not cars

Let's talk transportation — as in freight, not cars
This column originally appeared in the Star Tribune on Saturday, January 9, 2010

People-moving tends to be transportation policy's squeaky wheel, but freight is where the rubber really meets the road for economic growth.

Every day, Minnesotans rely on a freight system that uses roads, rails, water routes and airways to transport consumer goods, mail, parts and equipment, crops, ore and timber to millions of destinations, tying Minnesota's communities to one another and to the larger economies of the region, the nation and the world.