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Regarding the 4: I don't know why the NE branch of the 4 would be any more likely to go to Van White than the southern branch. Coming from the south in the morning, the bus fills up until Loring Park and people start getting off at MCTC with the bus being mostly empty by the north end of downtown an...

I can't remember if I've posted this here or not, but what we really oooooought to do is combine a bunch of the planned projects. Take the 1.? billion slated for Southwest, ~200 million for decorative Nicollet streetcar, ~50 million for Nicollet Mall rebuild, and whatever's budgeted for the Virgini...

Also noteworthy from the appendix: the no build option has the highest ridership. Weekday boardings by service type shows. 37,300 boardings with the no build alternative compared to 23,500 for enhanced bus and 32,400 for streetcar.

On another note, the report appendices are, well, embarrassing. The page numbering system is incoherent. Clicking on one appendix will give you three or four at a time. And even worse: track changes and comments were left on. The sentence in the first step of the methodology section, “Thus it was as...

Marq2 is at "design capacity", so likely yes: full but with smoothly flowing buses. I don't know that Nicollet has a similar "design capacity" although bus travel down Nicollet is clearly much slower than Marq2.