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- May 20th, 2024, 1:22 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan
- Replies: 259
- Views: 174598
Re: Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan
Can't find the tweet, but I thought I saw that the retroactive bit applied only to first class cities, but the new law going forward applied to the seven metro counties?
- May 13th, 2024, 3:48 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan
- Replies: 259
- Views: 174598
Re: Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan
(and god help us all if Minneapolis makes the same mistake twice and doesn't study 2050.) Minneapolis didn't make a mistake by not doing an EIS for 2040. It would have been ridiculously expensive, wasteful, and probably still would have gotten bogged down in lawsuits from the same people. And IANAL...
- May 9th, 2024, 10:23 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 372
- Views: 159289
Re: Interstate 94
I thoroughly enjoy CityNerd. His deadpan delivery is fantastic. It's truly bonkers to me that OurStreets will deliberately try to swamp public comment periods with their members, and then turn around and with a straight face say that the public comments show that the public supports their position. ...
- May 9th, 2024, 10:18 am
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
- Replies: 79
- Views: 45027
Re: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
Seems like even prior to all of this, she was not beloved by her fellow DFLers.
- April 29th, 2024, 9:37 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Midtown / Phillips Community - General Topics
- Replies: 19
- Views: 22397
Re: Midtown / Phillips Community - General Topics
Oh, very exciting to see a rare 23rd Street South siting in the wild.
- April 29th, 2024, 9:35 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
- Replies: 1407
- Views: 655166
Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Thank you! Just the kind of response I was hoping for. What's challenging is Minnesota's ADA standards state that the width of the curb ramp should match the width of the approaching sidewalk (typically 6-8' in Minneapolis) rather than just a flat 4' width as required by PROWAG. Often once you provi...
- April 29th, 2024, 9:23 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1323617
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
I think if the contractor screwed up, it is newsworthy, even if they'll fix it at no cost. I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on that point. I know this project is uniquely in the public eye, but seriously. If there was a news report every time a road contractor made a minor error that th...
- April 24th, 2024, 11:31 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
- Replies: 1407
- Views: 655166
Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects
The nearer to the intersection the ramp, the harder it is to achieve the proper grade and directional ramps. Thus, the closer the ramp to the intersection, the more you see omnidirectional ramps. I can definitely imagine cases where that would be true, but I also know of a number of instances where...
- April 24th, 2024, 10:32 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
- Replies: 1407
- Views: 655166
Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Intuitively, that makes a lot of sense to me -- but then why would they use the fully radiused ramps in some instances?I've heard that the facing of the tactile strips towards the crosswalk helps guide those who are blind better than one that faces directly into the middle of the intersection.
- April 23rd, 2024, 12:46 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
- Replies: 1298
- Views: 864996
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
Do we know if the building has HPC protection yet? The exterior, with its gorgeous bookmatched marble panels, really doesn't have much in the way of windows and we probably don't want it to be messed with. I'm not sure if carving a lightwell into the building interior would help matters. I'd agree t...
- April 23rd, 2024, 11:55 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
- Replies: 1407
- Views: 655166
Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects
There are a lot of ADA ramps being reconstructed around town this spring. Purely anecdotal, but it seems like rebuilds done over the last couple of years featured a continuous, radiused ramp serving both directions. With this year's projects, it seems like most (but not all) ramps have two perpendic...
- April 18th, 2024, 4:25 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1029028
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Sort of tangential, but do people really think that abolishing the Metropolitan Council is going to do anything to make LRT projects cheaper? They do realize it is a countrywide issue, right? (also, doesn't MnDOT have appointed leadership as well? How is it any different than the Met Council?) The ...
- April 17th, 2024, 10:59 am
- Forum: Cities Around the World
- Topic: Detroit
- Replies: 67
- Views: 34383
Re: Detroit
Yeah, completely agreed. I'd hoped that the next generation of Pohlads might grow into that role with United Properties, but they've not stepped up yet. I feel like Minneapolis politics is so hobbled by a laundry list of injustices that need to be addressed first that nobody dares step up and blow s...
- April 16th, 2024, 2:22 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
- Replies: 2032
- Views: 838912
Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
I just noticed that some parking meters in the vicinity of the Commons are utilizing a split rate ($2/hour during the day and $0.50 after 6pm and on weekends). No idea if this is new or if it's been like this for a while; I'd assumed that there was a technical issue preventing this (although I was a...
- April 15th, 2024, 2:26 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Fantasy maps
- Replies: 310
- Views: 160708
Re: Fantasy maps
I have read that the St Anthony bridge (35W) was designed to be "LRT-ready", and your map obviously takes advantage of that, but I've always wondered what that actually means. Like one lane in each direction could handle the weight of LRT vehicles and rails? I think that's correct -- the ...
- April 11th, 2024, 12:56 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2974
- Views: 765241
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
I'd wager on any given day, the Best Buy parking ramp is maybe a quarter full. Plenty of space there to be rented out, at least short term.
- April 10th, 2024, 3:09 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1029028
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
In the North Loop, they're so close to getting it right. But they REALLY need to connect 8th Avenue through to Washington, and give it a real street profile to accommodate actual cars actually driving through it.
- April 10th, 2024, 1:00 pm
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
- Replies: 79
- Views: 45027
Re: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
I think between 2023 and 2024, there are more than enough "big scary" policies the DFL has passed that Republicans could run on. There clearly isn't a lot of fear among DFL legislators that doing big things will result in electoral pushback. A bold proposal was probably not much less like...
- April 10th, 2024, 11:42 am
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
- Replies: 79
- Views: 45027
Re: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
The DFL trifecta is not a foregone conclusion -- in fact, the house and senate are always teetering on the verge of flipping, and the apparent solidity of the governorship may only be a mirage created by the GOP nominating terrible candidates. I think the approach of tackling a few meaningful policy...
- March 19th, 2024, 9:50 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Uber/Lyft
- Replies: 34
- Views: 9979
Re: Uber/Lyft
Except the rates set by the city council will, according to the state study, be well in excess of the Minneapolis minimum wage (after accounting for costs borne by the drivers).We really shouldn't back down. We shouldn't let capital bully us into backing off our minimum wages.