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- April 27th, 2016, 2:20 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Hennepin Avenue Downtown Reconstruction 2020-21
- Replies: 65
- Views: 19479
Re: Hennepin Avenue Reconstruction (Washington to 12th)
Why would she? All she wanted was the protected bike lanes and for everything else to stay the same. And that's what she got. It's pretty misleading that they only pictured two buses at each stop area, when already it's common to see a 4, 6, 12, and 61 all lined up together. On top of those, there w...
- April 27th, 2016, 2:03 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Hennepin Avenue Downtown Reconstruction 2020-21
- Replies: 65
- Views: 19479
Re: Hennepin Avenue Reconstruction (Washington to 12th)
A giant ravine will open in the earth and demons with pointy pitchforks will come streaming out if they build this as shown.
Which is to say, the proposed layout is almost exactly the same as the street is today.
Which is to say, the proposed layout is almost exactly the same as the street is today.
- April 25th, 2016, 5:21 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Eden Prairie - General Topics
- Replies: 66
- Views: 53415
Re: Eden Prairie - General Topics
Well they implemented a zoning district based on it. It's a pretty good code, eliminating minimum lot areas and front yard setbacks, adding max setbacks and min stories. Search for "Table 3: Building Bulk & Dimension Standards for Town Center District" in this pdf: http://www.edenprair...
- April 14th, 2016, 12:40 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
- Replies: 1809
- Views: 1126400
- April 5th, 2016, 10:48 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Minnesota Valley regional rail (Shakopee, Mankato, beyond)
- Replies: 55
- Views: 15156
Re: Minnesota Valley regional rail (Shakopee, Mankato, beyond)
Currently there are 4-6 trips in each direction every day between Minneapolis & Mankato. I'm assuming the shakopee route would be in addition to this. While the current frequency is pretty good, most of the existing runs use short buses so a train route would be a pretty huge capacity jump. I re...
- March 10th, 2016, 9:14 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Westminster Church
- Replies: 196
- Views: 354303
Re: Westminster Church
I'm sure the Pope of Westminster is watching this board trying to decide whether to move forward with this, but the community-minded thing for a downtown church to do would be to build up. I'd think there would be plenty of room to add on top of their disneyland monastery at 12th & Marquette. Al...
- February 12th, 2016, 1:08 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Nicollet Mall
- Replies: 1466
- Views: 620901
Re: Nicollet Mall Reconstruction Project
You couldn't do multiple lanes on Nicollet without drastically narrowing the sidewalks and pedestrian amenities. Nonstarter. Yes you could. Nicollet is 80' wide. The current curving design reduces sidewalk widths to 15' in many places. A bus passing lane doesn't need to be more than 10' wide. Try m...
- February 11th, 2016, 11:01 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Nicollet Mall
- Replies: 1466
- Views: 620901
Re: Nicollet Mall Reconstruction Project
But the nice thing is that buses can GO AROUND other buses since there are two lanes in each direction. Which is something that could have been designed into the Nicollet Mall rebuild, if the transit function the street were at all considered in the design. The transit function, i.e. the most impor...
- February 10th, 2016, 8:27 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Nicollet Mall
- Replies: 1466
- Views: 620901
Re: Nicollet Mall Reconstruction Project
So they're just going to be regular concrete sidewalks now or what?
- February 9th, 2016, 2:35 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: 77th/76th Street Corridor - Richfield / Edina
- Replies: 211
- Views: 44025
Re: 77th/76th Street Corridor - Richfield / Edina
I believe the ruling was limited to determining that Section 8 program participants are not a protected class, so it's not discriminatory for landlords to choose not to rent to them based on their participation in the program. This ruling would prevent ordinance like Chicago's that use income discri...
- February 8th, 2016, 6:15 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Downtown History
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6210
Re: Downtown History
That is the original plat, right? I remember reading that the guy who platted it later regretting making the grids parallel to the river rather than oriented to the cardinal directions.
- February 8th, 2016, 5:37 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: 77th/76th Street Corridor - Richfield / Edina
- Replies: 211
- Views: 44025
Re: 77th/76th Street Corridor - Richfield / Edina
One option for the city -- some would say a nuclear option -- would be to introduce an ordinance to condition issuance of rental licenses on acceptance of Section 8 vouchers. This should be done anyway, say I, and if the new owner knew that he would be required to take vouchers next time he renewed ...
- February 3rd, 2016, 1:06 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1811
- Views: 1070011
Re: Bottineau LRT (Blue Line Extension)
Well phrased, alleycat. The council will not grow a spine, however, unless they have cover from advocates. This is the most disappointing aspect of the whole thing to me: the advocacy community doesn't seem to be engaged on this, even though it is probably the worst urban planning decision of the la...
- January 26th, 2016, 1:17 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Nicollet Ave / Eat Street - Whittier, Stevens, Loring Park
- Replies: 225
- Views: 162378
Re: Eat Street
Yeah what's up with how immigrants are responsible for all the bad architecture ever in America?Is there something about the can-do entrepreneurial spirit of immigrants that prevents them from spending money for quality architectural services?
- January 22nd, 2016, 12:32 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Lyndy - (2905 Harriet Ave S)
- Replies: 42
- Views: 19541
Re: Harriet Avenue Apartments - (2900 block of Harriet/Grand
Can a 3' sidewalk be considered 'public' in any meaningful way?
- January 16th, 2016, 1:55 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Red Line (Cedar Avenue BRT)
- Replies: 538
- Views: 254539
Re: Red Line (Cedar Avenue BRT)
Here's the full presentation that article references: http://www.cedartransitway.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Final-Cedar-Avenue-Transitway-IPU-December-2015.pdf Skimming this plan, I first saw that they are planning $92m in improvements in phases 2-5 covering 2015-2040 (pp. ii-iv). I then saw th...
- January 14th, 2016, 11:03 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Amtrak: Empire Builder and Borealis (TCMC)
- Replies: 725
- Views: 450725
Re: Amtrak Empire Builder and Intercity Rail to Chicago
Yep most of the delay is on the part of the route west of the Twin Cities. The MSP-CHI segment of the Empire builder is probably more reliable than driving the interstate and certainly more comfortable. More frequent low speed trains would cut into driving modeshare, since those times are fairly com...
- January 4th, 2016, 7:31 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Amtrak: Empire Builder and Borealis (TCMC)
- Replies: 725
- Views: 450725
Re: Amtrak Empire Builder and Intercity Rail to Chicago
ve never spoken to anyone who has physically taken a bus "cross country" in the manner that you suggest (out east). To be clear, I only took the bus "cross country" once, and will never repeat it by choice. That was a trip from Baltimore to Milwaukee. I was talking about taking ...
- January 4th, 2016, 11:50 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Amtrak: Empire Builder and Borealis (TCMC)
- Replies: 725
- Views: 450725
Re: Amtrak Empire Builder and Intercity Rail to Chicago
Greyhound's express buses have good legroom -- not quite Superliner but comfortable for anyone under 7' I should think. Most of the buses between Mpls & Chicago are express. Look for the little 'e' symbol when you're booking. I've found Greyhound to have much more reliable wifi than Amtrak, too....
- December 26th, 2015, 9:43 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
- Replies: 1809
- Views: 1126400
Re: Bicycle Infrastructure
Hey, you asked buddy. Certainly trusting small details to the city has always gone off without a hitch in the past.