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Song of Hiawatha Line; (With apologies to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who died in 1882 in Cambridge, Mass., a city with a variety of transit options.).(NEWS)(OP EX)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20030427
Author:Ringham, Eric

Byline: Eric Ringham; Staff Writer

From the land of mall and airport,

Region clogged with cars and freeways,

Single riders, vans and carpools,

Grew the railway Hiawatha,

Running every seven minutes

Past the Falls of Minnehaha,

Neighborhoods like east Nokomis,

Bungalows of old Nokomis,

Traveling to a gentler workday.

Endless planning was the cradle

Of the infant Hiawatha;

Public funding flowed to nourish

Hiawatha, still on paper.

Federal money filled the gap 'tween

What we needed and could pay for;

Transit ...

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