Modifying metropolitan area light rail transit (LRT) planning, designing and construction; requiring the metropolitan council to identify in the transportation policy plan heavily traveled corridors to be benefited by transitways; requiring the council to designate locally preferred alternative transit modes after locally directed studies; requiring the governor to designate the metropolitan council or the state acting through the department of transportation (DOT) as the responsible authority for each metropolitan area proposed light rail transit facility; requiring the DOT to transfer all constructed facilities, equipment and property to the metropolitan council upon LRT facility completion; authorizing the metropolitan council to plan, design, acquire, construct and equip LRT facilities in the metropolitan area; specifying metropolitan area applicability; repealing the requirement prohibiting the seeking of financial assistance for construction of LRT facilities until construction has begun on the central corridor or Riverview corridors
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