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In their article about the Plymouth Avenue Bridge, F&C says that the Lowry Avenue Bridge won't be open this summer. Completion has apparently slipped to sometime between September and December.

There has been a small amount of remodeling going on at HarMar Mall recently. As far as I can tell, just some refurbishment of the entranceways next to the Famous Footwear and the former Buffalo Wild Wings. BW3 has apparently moved over by Rosedale, though I don't know exactly where. Kyoto Sushi is ...

You also have to trim off the extra "&related=g-u-u" bit... We should see if the phpBB plugin or whatever can be fixed to automatically ignore that part of the URL.

It's just endemic of the penny-pinching that has driven a dumbing-down of pedestrian space for the past several decades. I feel that the brick makes the space much friendlier since there are often patterns to draw the eye and there's a tactile sense to them underfoot. Plus, my gut tells me they help...

Sigh -- took me a while, but I finally caught the contradiction.

I don't follow sports, so I had to look that up -- July 15th, 2014.

That's a disappointment. I've definitely noticed some Hiawatha platforms have some very bleached-looking bricks, though I guess I hadn't seen an inordinately high level of damage. I had noticed that the new Green Line platforms don't seem to have any pavers, though it's hard to tell whether they'll ...

Got this in an e-mail newsletter from the Red Rock folks a week and a half ago: Public Input Sought on the Design for the Newport Transit Station Washington County Regional Railroad Authority, in partnership with the City of Newport, is designing a transit station that will be a launching point for ...

The thought is creeping into my head that this station will need some changes when the Southwest LRT gets built -- widening the westbound platform a bit, at least. Fortunately, there's a decent amount of room off the end of the platform for crowds to get from one side to the other, since this statio...

For anyone interested in a chance to see the line up toward Duluth as it currently exists, the Friends of the 261 group has begun taking reservations for their annual fall colors trip to Boylston Jct. (a bit south of Superior) and back on October 13th this fall. They divide the train up into coach, ...

New video from the City of Saint Paul on the construction progress:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm7FXvgnPDQ[/youtube]

It would be nice if they could come back with a plan to include a car-sharing service. I think the guess of 1/2 of students having cars is probably about right, but many of those are only used once a week for the grocery run.

The platform is about 30 inches wide outside the doors -- should be fine for someone to stay outside after they put a bike on in front.

Of course, some BRT systems have bike racks inside the buses...

Kinda sorta. The Dinkytown bridge has the benefit that land actually runs up close enough to the north and south corners that stuff can actually be built there (not quite on the north side, but close). The other corners over the trench are some of the numerous examples of unused plaza-like spaces in...

Yeah, restoring an east-west connector or two would be a good thing. Connecting Oak Grove to 17th Street seems like the most logical one, though the most technically challenging since it makes a 4-way intersection right above the middle of the Interstate. Cap the southeast and northwest quadrants en...

The idea of Cupcake on Grand in Saint Paul is going into hibernation. The Mall of America extended an offer and a shop is expected to open there August 1st. They're required to be open by the 11th, the MOA's 20th birthday. I'm guessing the mall is going to pay for lots of cheap/free cupcakes that da...

Interesting. Well, the buildings better have good A/C if people are required to wait inside. I never would have thought of having an extra door opening just ahead of the bus for people who need to load bikes. People will have to watch for that step, though! The Strib and PiPress covered the skyway s...

I guess I'm not really sold on the idea of capping freeways if all we're going to get out of it is more grassy space to mow, possibly lined with trees that stay stubby for years and die as soon as they mature. I really want something that heals the gap in the streetscape. If that area remains flat, ...

Well, it'd be about the length of a downtown city block. 60-90 seconds.

I e-mailed Shaun Murphy, the city's bike/ped coordinator about 1st Ave NE and got this response: "We have some plans developed for Hennepin & 1st, but they are County roads and a couple of key decision makers at the City and the County want to wait to implement them until the City’s street...