Transit Data

From: sustainlane.com


MSP 2005
2520000 population
28140000 miles/day freeway
23830000 miles/day arterial
383000000 miles/year public transportation
rank 21 in metro transit ridership in 2008
0.42 transit miles/day/person, 1.98% transit miles

Portland 2005
1730000 population
13620,000 miles/day freeway
13850,000 miles/day arterial
466000000 miles/year public transportation
rank 19 in metro transit ridership in 2008
0.74 transit miles/day/person 4.44% transit miles

SFO 2005 
4140000 population
50000,000 miles/day freeway
31100,000 miles/day arterial
2283000000 miles/year  public transportation
1.51 transit miles/day/person, 7.16% transit miles
rank 5 Oakland, rank 6 San Francisco in metro transit ridership in 2008

So, Minneapolis-St.Paul can learn from Portland. Both Minneapolis-St. Paul and Portland can learn from the Bay area.

BART has a total of 45,890 on-site parking spaces. The system normally provides about 340,000 rides a day.  (May 2, 2007)