The Fourth Northstar Workshop, "Transportation For Minnesota: How and How Much? What is The Transportation Future To Keep Minnesota Moving?" was held at the Thunderbird Motel in Bloomington, Minnesota, on December 1 and 2, 1987. It was attended by approximately 150 people drawn from Mn/DOT, other state departments, the Minnesota Legislature, county and municipal agencies, chambers of commerce, developers, and industry. The format of the workshop was one and one-half days of presentations of papers by individuals on subjects which had been assigned to them, with limited questions and discussion after each one. These presentations were followed by group discussions for which the attendees were divided into six groups. Reports of these discussions were made to the full conference by group leaders and a wrap-up was then made by Deputy Commissioner Doug Differt. Following the workshop. Transportation Commissioner Leonard W. Levine created a special action committee to follow up on these recommendations.
The proceedings contains transcripts of the presentations made by the conference speakers and discussion group speakers, and also the wrap-up.
