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- April 23rd, 2024, 12:46 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
- Replies: 1298
- Views: 829529
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: 1394
- Views: 619103
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: 993297
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: 30428
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: 2031
- Views: 800688
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: 308
- Views: 146207
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: 2951
- Views: 721959
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: 993297
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: 70
- Views: 33865
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: 70
- Views: 33865
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: 3907
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: 3907
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: 26180
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: 355737
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: 993297
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.
- February 29th, 2024, 3:14 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1194
- Views: 562220
- February 12th, 2024, 11:40 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1194
- Views: 562220
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
The presentation says it's a new bridge, and the drawings appear to show piers in different locations than the existing.
- February 12th, 2024, 9:31 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1194
- Views: 562220
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
I'm not advocating for this project, but I'll also note that this budget number includes the new MN-5 bridge and a reconstructed and vastly improved MOA station (that will benefit the blue line).
- February 6th, 2024, 10:45 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Harmonia - 255 2nd Ave S - 25ish / 20ish / 10ish stories
- Replies: 31
- Views: 30625
Re: Harmonia - 255 2nd Ave S - 25ish / 20ish / 10ish stories
Since we're all repeating ourselves, it's worth noting that introducing something the size of a city bus into an underground garage complicates all sort of things with the design and engineering of the space. It's certainly achievable, but it may be viewed as an extra complication to the project tha...
- February 6th, 2024, 10:36 am
- Forum: Greater Minnesota
- Topic: Lutsen
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2782
Re: Lutsen
Yes, it was a magnificent building that will be very difficult to reconstruct. A real loss.