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- April 29th, 2024, 9:37 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Midtown / Phillips Community - General Topics
- Replies: 19
- Views: 20516
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: 647946
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: 1315572
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: 647946
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: 647946
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: 858787
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: 647946
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: 1023617
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: 33584
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: 832772
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: 157278
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: 2961
- Views: 756525
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: 1023617
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: 76
- Views: 41791
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: 76
- Views: 41791
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: 8452
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.
- March 15th, 2024, 3:03 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Uber/Lyft
- Replies: 34
- Views: 8452
Re: Uber/Lyft
Passing this the day before the state study comes out is further evidence that the city council majority is motivated by vibes and not good policy.
- March 8th, 2024, 11:36 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Park and Portland Avenues
- Replies: 103
- Views: 30557
Re: Park and Portland Avenues
Once you've got the street down to two lanes and calmed, I think that keeping it a one way is just fine. It eliminates the left turn conflicts, allows for some smart light timing, and I think there's some real value in maintaining a couple of north-south streets that still have some through-put capa...
- March 6th, 2024, 10:25 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: MSP Airport / Metropolitan Airports Commission
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 375240
Re: MSP Airport / Metropolitan Airports Commission
Here's a PDF that includes some initial layout plans.I have the layout map of the 1991 Dakota County proposal, don't know how to attach the photo on here though..
https://www.leg.mn.gov/docs/2012/other/120470.pdf
- February 29th, 2024, 3:18 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1023617
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
It's really hard for people to wrap their heads around what compounding inflation has done to construction pricing -- much more so than inflation in general. It's a cliche, but a billion dollars doesn't buy you what it used to.