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Submitted this: Members and staff of the Transportation Committee and TAB and representatives of the Cedar Ave corridor, First, thank you for the work you are doing to plan the future of our transit network. I am enthusiastic about this work, particularly the benefit of increasing Arterial BRT corri...

Looks like a project may be brewing on the SW corner of Nicollet and 43rd (kitty-corner from Revival). Midwest Cycle supply closed last year and Roadrunner Records just announced a move down the street (to 4534 Nicollet), the latter citing "they learned last year that their landlord planned to sell...

I hear there may be more updates about this project within the next couple months, but I don't know the nature of the updates. Anyone else hearing new things about this streetcar plan?

But I guess when you pay a consultant 50 grand or whatever, they aren't going to suggest calling something what it's already called (even if informally).

Folks, https://www.postbulletin.com/news/local ... e6da2.html

While it's not as egregious as 21st St Station, the area of Bryn Mawr near Penn Ave Station is very underzoned in 2040 as well. Unsurprisingly, another area represented by CM Goodman. The Penn corridor is interior 3 and everything else is interior 2. Single family homes a few hundred feet from the P...

Smart people studied putting LRT on Broadway. There's a good reason that it was dismissed as on option.

Are those the same smart people that got us a mile-long $160 million tunnel along Southwest LRT so that freight trains can operate above light rail trains?

I do actually agree that at-grade LRT on Penn or Broadway would probably be bad. Broadway could be at-grade on the stroady part until North Memorial / Victory Parkway, but then ideally it could head underground. An underground section from where Broadway de-stroads just east of Victory to where 7th ...

And the magical thinking that you can have a 10' drive lane smacked right up against the curb without accounting for the gutter and snow storage is a streets.mn classic. (Not that it was a good thing) This was permissible all over the city when engineers wanted to cram in Four Lane Death Roads all ...

Perimeter fence going up today. Temporary curb cut for Cork Dork and Carbone's is in action.

Cedar Inn at 42nd St will be temporarily closed beginning Feb 1 for a light refresh. New owners, but supposedly the name and the menu will be remaining.

Construction trailer is on site.

IMO there should be something like 3-4 trains PDEW CHI-MSP in addition to the Empire Builder. If the eastbound EB is on time, it lashes up with the regional train. If not, it lashes up with the next train and so on.

Possibly incorrect list of Non-Freeway roads that got grade separated crossings from existing Green Line: 1. 3rd st and 4th st (the second crossing) downtown. 2. Cedar Ave and 19th Ave for west bank station. 3. Cedar St near the Capitol (may have already been there?) All three of those grade separa...

30 units proposed for the vacant lot behind Chris and Rob's at 42nd St and 32nd Ave.
3115 E 42nd St

Billionaire presidential candidate is headed to Wells, MN tomorrow... http://m.startribune.com/michael-bloomb ... 566778592/

A Diner of the Uptown Diner variety would be good here.

How does that differ from Band Box a few blocks away?

Update on the shotgun marriage between Columbia Heights taxpayers and Alatus. Columbia Heights plans America's first city hall in a luxury apartment building http://citypages.com/news/columbia-heights-plans-americas-first-city-hall-in-a-luxury-apartment-building/566577081 Alatus requested financial ...

Aren't there multiple rail businesses on this spur? The canning plant in Montgomery, and a railcar business south of Jordan? Sad to see U.P. not care about this. Maybe Progressive Rail would have some interest, particularly if they could connect it to their Richfield spur (part of the old Dan Patch)...