urbanMSP

I think you all are underestimating how much space most cars need to do a U-turn (let alone delivery trucks).

Signs that show u turns are allowed at the lights with a dedicated turn light should be all that's necessary.

Except that the geometries of the intersections are likely too tight to actually accommodate a U-turn.

The article seems to indicate that the routes that they're purchasing buses for now (Orange Line, D Line, and B Line) are too long to be served by the currently available electric bus options, due to issues with charging. It's suggested that electrics could still be a good option for shorter local r...

If I'm understanding your comment and photos correctly, it looks to be non-frosted glass but with shades drawn. That may be a moot distinction, since I'm guessing any residents in these areas will usually keep their shades closed this close to the sidewalk.

I'm just hopelessly old-fashioned for believing that the transit system should go where most people want to go, rather than creating the magical Cartesian transit grid of the future.

But still. People hate transfers, even if it's to another aBRT. And the eastsiders are much more likely to want to go to downtown St. Paul anyway.

Fingers crossed that this turns out well. Like all of Basim's projects, the plans seem pretty half-baked and the execution often leaves a lot to be desired.

The Barr engineering report said that the limiting factor for the level of the lake is either the gas pipes just below 28th Ave or a rock weir (some rocks along the bank and across the creek, placed at an unknown time) under the 31st Ave footbridge. OK, but on the scale of the changes that we're ta...

There are probably some good equity reasons to extend the tail of the H line into the east side of Saint Paul, but it seems like there's going to be a significant hit to ridership by forcing a transfer to get into downtown St. Paul, no?

2019 was bad too and despite a relatively dry summer of 2020, we need to expect a wetter future due to climate change. The extra water needs to go somewhere, and one obvious place is in the swamp where we're having a hard time keeping a golf course dry. Especially where the primary alternative is u...

Some of this land is worth a fortune. Meadowbrook and Fort Snelling aren't even that close to the city limits and the real estate must be especially valuable. I don't golf, but I also don't love to crap on it like a lot of people on the forum. That said, the Fort Snelling course really couldn't be ...

(Assuming you mean 1508 W. Lake Street, right?)

Still haven't seen a layout for putting dedicated guideway LRT on an 80' street that wouldn't be deeply awful for pedestrians, transit, or both.

The truth that everybody refuses to accept.

I'm totally not sold on this, and I tend to agree that it's probably more complicated than it needs to be, but there's probably value to somebody building equity in situation like this that they could then roll over into their next housing purchase. That equity value over five years could be not-ins...

I mean, the ideal outcome would be eliminating it entirely and reconnecting the Northside to the river.

North was disconnected from the river long before 94 went in.

Examples of some bank locations that in my mind would be better off redeveloped: Drive through bank at Lake/Nicollet Bank along Lake in Uptown that was redeveloped with a huge surface parking lot USB Bank off E. Hennepin again with drive through and large surface parking lot. I also don't really th...

I mean, who can see the future? Every other post on this forum suggests that Minneapolis will have eliminated cars by 2040, so problem apparently solved. But seriously, if the developer thinks they'll have more demand for parking spaces than they're building, they can very easily negotiate a long te...

I mean, it's literally next door to a big parking ramp.

Whether or not you like it, and even setting aside the financial side of things, it's not great for the embodied energy of a build-out like that to end up in the landfill after a very short service life.

I wonder how they'll subdivide the space. Boludo only needs a little bit of what was a huge space, and it would be a shame to gut out all of the fancy interiors after such a short run.