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Commissioner Alexander retiring after a year. https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis ... 600291125/

Strib on MNDOT’s 10 designs

https://www.startribune.com/interstate- ... 600290342/

Stats about the Lowry Hill Tunnel

https://mspmag.com/arts-and-culture/big ... ll-tunnel/

CNN list of iconic tunnels around the world.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/the-worlds-m ... index.html

Looks Border Ave still accounted for.

I would be interested in a deep dive where this statement by Zelle about the auditors’ recommendation that they “do not align with … construction law”.

In learning there is a thing called “construction law”.

Blaine found to have over-pumped groundwater causing homeowners to lose water in their own wells.

https://www.startribune.com/dnr-unpermi ... 600285751/

Supposedly Blake Road was to be turned over to Hopkins when the reconstruction was over. I think it is still pending.

If the project was more forthcoming ASAP it might have been possible that the county and municipalities made more long term plans for more robust detours, instead of signs pointing towards paint protected gutter-lanes on dangerous county roads. I have some hope imagining that it was known much soone...

Study:
Autonomous cars make traffic worse due to inability to interpret human behavior that humans intuitively understand immediately. https://studyfinds.org/self-driving-car ... -behavior/

Seven and a half years later and, still, no one is in charge of anything.

https://streets.mn/2015/10/28/downtown- ... elsewhere/

I was remembering this one. This was a great post.

If express buses come back to pre-covid levels this is a bad idea. Marq/2 was packed with buses during peak hours.

They sure were! Some long nights going south on Marquette. The timing of lights seemed against moving evening buses, but the turns off Marquette were the big bottlenecks.

Rerouting buses from Nicollet Mall to make it more a pedestrian street?

https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis ... 600280566/

Those are some fun comparisons to see trends in there.

Nowhere grew like Minneapolis in raw totals. Though Lakeville had a boom.

So much has been passing this legislative session. Turns out Minnesota is getting the Idaho stop. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230523/ea769acfe0d31cfff58d3b9200bb5836.jpg https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2887&type=ccr&version=0&session=ls93&session_year=2023&a...

Cory Doctorow wrote a short essay, with links, positive towards rent control.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/16/mort ... t-control/

Lot of interesting thoughts in it!

Disappointing.

The UNFI campus (former SuperValu HQ) on Bryant Lake will be on the market.

https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... -sale.html

UNFI says they will have a new modern office for Twin Cities staff elsewhere.

Wells Fargo mortgage campus to be sold. https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... ampus.html

Didn’t they just add a parking ramp?