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- July 19th, 2013, 7:57 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5317
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Re: Southwest Corridor (Green Line Extension)
Saving a important, busy and beautiful bicycle corridor/connection, one that I personally use frequently and vote as my favorite bike trail in Minneapolis, I hardly find silly and naive. Building a lrt station at a location with currently very little bus service, the lowest density in the city (&am...
- July 18th, 2013, 9:42 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5317
- Views: 1350885
Re: Southwest Corridor (Green Line Extension)
Present the facts! I've not heard a coherent reason to build this (especially face to face with lack of rail in North and South). The facts are in the LPA analysis for everyone to read. They are the only facts that matter to FTA. I think Uptown's point is: present the facts on this site. Too much o...
- July 18th, 2013, 9:25 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5317
- Views: 1350885
Re: Southwest Corridor (Green Line Extension)
I will say, it would be pretty silly if we were running light rail at-grade in downtown, through the University, at Snelling and in DT St. Paul but running it through a tunnel on a stretch of dedicated rail ROW out in a relatively low-density residential district. I think the U's former VP, Kathy O...
- July 10th, 2013, 7:33 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Walker Library
- Replies: 153
- Views: 36185
Re: Walker Library
The new library may be nice, but it's actually a shame that they tore down the old one. A Ralph Rapson oddity (originally designed as a bank by the way) whose loss will be lamented twenty years from now. In a landscape full of sameness, we should be doing more to preserve uniqueness wherever it exis...