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- September 2nd, 2014, 10:28 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
- Replies: 1803
- Views: 1082000
Re: Bicycle Infrastructure
Just conjecture, but my thought is that it may make maintenance more difficult. Without the banding, they could fairly easily do some mill-and-overlay type work on sections of trail that are aging poorly. With the banding, they're forced to remove and place the asphalt by hand, which is more expens...
- August 3rd, 2014, 5:04 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
- Replies: 1406
- Views: 642687
Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Hey, I'm just saying there are cities that don't do this and some are much more car-oriented. Too bad it can't be used as an excuse to close the streets off to motorized traffic. I'd feel safer not having cars ride my ass on these streets is all. The traffic is what compacts the surface. Once a per...
- July 15th, 2014, 5:37 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
- Replies: 1803
- Views: 1082000
Re: Bicycle Infrastructure
Does anyone know why the bike trail is closed along the Mississippi River just west of 35W heading towards the Guthrie? Yeah, it's the Gala. The tents are set up on the paths. I tried riding that way last night but had to detour across the Stone Arch Bridge onto the very dark railroad service trail...
- July 14th, 2014, 12:04 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Third Wave Coffee Shops
- Replies: 94
- Views: 10328
Re: Downtown Restaurant News
People's Organic in the IDS is the only place I know of that does a pour over in Downtown. FWIW, I actually prefer their drip coffee. As somebody above wrote, you have to do a lot of volume to cover rent downtown. It's also a pretty time sensitive customer base, which doesn't lend itself to single s...
- July 6th, 2014, 10:38 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
- Replies: 1803
- Views: 1082000
Re: Bicycle Infrastructure
I noticed today that they were advertising the trail on the Stone Arch Bridge. Every couple of feet someone had painted (chalked?) something with stencil that pointed toward the new Bluff Street Trail. Seemed a bit odd. I didn't remember seeing it earlier in the weekend. I'm pretty sure that's a bi...
- June 19th, 2014, 5:33 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line LRT
- Replies: 1297
- Views: 99965
Re: Green Line (Central Corridor LRT)
It does seem like they're getting the Minneapolis end figured out. 16 minutes from Westgate to Nicollet Mall at 9am and not even 10 from West Bank to Westgate just now.
- May 16th, 2014, 6:25 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
- Replies: 1803
- Views: 1082000
Re: Bicycle Infrastructure
Infrastructure costs money. Lets not forget that this section goes under a piece of automobile infrastructure that cost something like $600M per mile and that the city managed fine without.
- April 21st, 2014, 5:51 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
- Replies: 1803
- Views: 1082000
Re: Bicycle Infrastructure
Lots of stakes in the ground at Bluff Street Park laying out the new trail to go under 35W. There are also flags where the stairway connecting the Dinkytown Greenway to 15th Ave. will be.
- April 3rd, 2014, 8:00 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1306250
Re: Southwest Corridor (Green Line Extension)
Imagine if we moved the bike trail in exchange for using a quarter of the money saved on tunnels for bicycle infrastructure. $60 million is what Portland spent on bicycle infrastructure from 1993 to 2011. Just saying.
- April 2nd, 2014, 10:15 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: [Archived] Uptown Retail & Restaurant News 2012-17
- Replies: 1427
- Views: 253937
Re: Uptown Restaurant News
It's the only one that fits the bill, unless you don't consider 7th Day Adventists conservatives. They're not fans of Gs,Ls,Bs, or Ts (or Qs), even less so when you add leather. The church associated with The Beat is affiliated with the Assemblies of God, the largest Pentecostal denomination. That'...
- March 28th, 2014, 11:17 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Climate Change
- Replies: 64
- Views: 5977
Re: Climate Change
I think what drives a lot of climate change denial is confusing the scientific back and forth about the details with the broader consensus. We know CO2 is a greenhouse gas, we can measure its increase in the atmosphere, directly tie those increases to human activities, and record a steady rise in gl...