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- January 23rd, 2024, 8:48 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5303
- Views: 1332532
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Yeah City West station feels like it will be a dud. The only thing it can serve well is the UHG/Optum campus, and even that's not close. This looks like it won't even have a trail south from the station to the older City West Pwky development closer to Shady Oak/212. I always thought it would have b...
- January 22nd, 2024, 8:43 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2977
- Views: 775462
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Bumping my suggestion from a decade ago to ditch the express fare and instead use GoTo and other means to convert free parking to paid. Thus if you take the 94, or get dropped off at a major park & ride, it would be a local fare. But if you park at a park & ride, it would be a local fare + p...
- January 13th, 2024, 10:12 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5303
- Views: 1332532
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
But look at that bridge up the hill connecting Penn Ave to Franklin Ave - that would be a useful connection.We could've been a real city:
- January 10th, 2024, 2:04 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5303
- Views: 1332532
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
the park board and NIMBY's cost us $1.5b and 10 years because they didn't like bikers in their view. It's literally been a conservative meme for the last decade about how we should have "just moved the damn bike trail" and I had always thought there was a sound technical reason not to. Th...
- December 29th, 2023, 8:27 am
- Forum: Cities Around the World
- Topic: Oklahoma City
- Replies: 10
- Views: 22577
Re: Oklahoma City
Developer seems honest about it...
So do they throw down the future arcology card to help get city approval or something?Hogan called the plan for the third tower, which will be built last and its height ultimately determined by market demand and financing, “aspirational.”
- December 26th, 2023, 6:13 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5303
- Views: 1332532
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
It wouldn't be unprecedented. When the Blue Line opened in 2004, the initial service was downtown to Ft. Snelling Station since the airport tunnel was not yet complete.
- December 24th, 2023, 10:23 pm
- Forum: Cities Around the World
- Topic: Oklahoma City
- Replies: 10
- Views: 22577
Re: Oklahoma City
1,750 ft supertall, second tallest in U.S., proposed. June and Retiredbanker unavailable for comment. https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2023/12/18/developer-to-build-2nd-tallest-building-in-the-us-for-okc-apartments/71937684007/ https://www.oklahoman.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2023/12/15...
- December 19th, 2023, 3:36 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
- Replies: 1298
- Views: 871177
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
If anything the "one week per quarter" thing gives me the impression they ***don't intend*** to have people come back on a regular, consistent basis (which is fine IMO). My company is remote-first, and we generally do the same thing for on-sites/strategy sessions. 1-2x per year for the ent...
- December 19th, 2023, 8:34 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
- Replies: 1803
- Views: 1099806
Re: Bicycle Infrastructure
Probably just me in the fantasy thread: viewtopic.php?p=153485Has there been any proposal to have any kind of rail their downtown in the past 30 years?
- December 19th, 2023, 8:29 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Future Cars: Electric and Autonomous Vehicles
- Replies: 545
- Views: 216271
Re: Future Cars: Electric and Autonomous Vehicles
Doomsday preppers want old trucks before computer-controlled engines (EMP hardened) running on diesel (easier to bulk store for long term without degradation). And not just one bug-out truck, but a menu of vehicle options to survive different scenarios.
Or so I've heard...
Or so I've heard...
- December 15th, 2023, 12:47 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1769
- Views: 1035806
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
So they've looked at a viaduct over the CR 81 viaduct to get the station on the North Memorial side of the intersection, and they've looked at leaving it at grade under the CR81 viaduct. But why not just have a station at the same level as the CR81 viaduct with vertical circulation on each side?
- December 15th, 2023, 11:55 am
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Minnesota State Flag and Seal Redeisgn
- Replies: 55
- Views: 255722
Re: Minnesota State Flag and Seal Redeisgn
"People probably need to do some self reflection," whether true or not, isn't the political sales pitch one may think it is.
- December 11th, 2023, 9:03 am
- Forum: Greater Minnesota
- Topic: Rochester
- Replies: 591
- Views: 473250
Re: Rochester
Really sad how the only walkable streetscapes in Rochester is under threat, both the Broadway project above and the news of the long-time Dooley's spot (the only redeeming street-life-creating part of the parking ramp they built across their only historic streetscape less than two decades ago) closi...
- December 4th, 2023, 9:26 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Transit Crime
- Replies: 280
- Views: 1057629
Re: Transit Crime
better social safety net, transit not being seen as a place of last resort A majority of the issues with Metro Transit right now are failures of the state and federal governments to provide enough social services and housing, issues a transit agency has neither the funds nor ability to solve. Are t...
- December 1st, 2023, 12:01 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: MSP Airport / Metropolitan Airports Commission
- Replies: 1360
- Views: 386530
Re: MSP Airport / Metropolitan Airports Commission
Those two new FIS-connected gates on G (which block other FIS gates) won't keep up with this growth. The final draft 2040 plan plans a mid-term project to rebuild the Green/Gold ramps (oldest/closest to the T1 drop-off) with that space having expanded curbside areas and a new FIS facility. A reconst...
- November 30th, 2023, 11:19 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 591795
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
An old option to get rid of those tight ramps, which would be compatible with their desire to use the northern half of the lower/existing bridge deck for trains with a tight turn west of the Ft. Snelling chapel.
- November 1st, 2023, 8:50 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
- Replies: 1298
- Views: 871177
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
This Wall Street Journal article features Downtown Minneapolis and highlights the high office vacancy rate and conversion of some buildings to housing: https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/commercial/wrecking-ball-targets-empty-downtown-offices-d0e3391 archive without paywall https://archive.ph/bTdX0#se...
- November 1st, 2023, 8:40 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis General Discussion
- Replies: 2032
- Views: 847402
Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
They better keep the plan to have a gondola cross the river and enter the west side of the post office for its downtown terminus.
- October 18th, 2023, 11:17 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Dan Patch Intercity Regional Passenger Rail
- Replies: 184
- Views: 171430
Re: Dan Patch Intercity Regional Passenger Rail
A little history lesson on the Dan Patch Line: With a north-south route that has/had several connections to east-west railroads and avoiding the busy rail yards in Minneapolis and St. Paul, the Dan Patch Line was quite successful with interchange traffic going from one major railroad to another maj...
- October 2nd, 2023, 6:01 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Freight Rail News and Happenings
- Replies: 247
- Views: 140006
Re: Freight Rail News and Happenings
I expect TC&W to request funding to repair some track in Savage so then maybe they'll finally start running grain trains on the Dan Patch Line again. But then again I've heard rumors CPKC isn't very supportive of that initiative, even though TC&W has trackage rights on the Dan Patch Line. N...