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Mankato's pretty much the same distance from downtown Minneapolis as St. Cloud is, and Rochester's only about 10 miles futher, so if an extended Northstar was still regional rail, I'd argue that Rochester and Mankato would be too.

Lotta surface parking, but on the other hand, what else are you going to do with that lot?

Also, that Grocery logo in the renderings is an absolute masterwork of being obviously Aldi while maintaining plausible deniablity about it possibly being any grocery store.

Makes sense to me. My particular hobbyhorse is that the HERC property is the ideal spot for a downtown utility hub as we stare down the barrel of electrification generally *and* the existing district energy system having to decarbonize specifically. There's going to need to be at least one new ...

My understanding is that the sticking point with rerouting MN-5 onto Shepard is that Shepard doesn't have a full interchange with 35E, just the southern half of a diamond. I guess a turnback would include just officially truncating it at the Mississippi River Blvd interchange at the east side of the ...

Hopefully Hempl still has $15M or so of free cash floating around their bank account.

That could be a really great addition to downtown. I wonder what this bill would do, unless it's just to allow for a special liquor license.
State Rep. Katie Jones, DFL-Minneapolis, introduced a bill earlier this month that seeks to allow LaSalle Plaza to operate the food hall.


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I'm curious how these were selected. It's strange that some of them were carefully pieced together from segments of other lines, like the 2/63 combo, and some are just an existing infrequent suburban (or urban) route plopped onto the map, weird industrial meanders and all.

My votes would be ...

I'm 90% sure that the bi-level doors would line up with single-level Horizon cars like they're using on the Borealis. It's probably not ADA-accessible though, I don't think there's a way for a wheelchair to get up the couple of steps from the bottom level to the mid-level where the doors are.

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Note that it passed the Republican-controlled Transportation Finance and Policy committee on a party-line vote, not the actual (tied) House.

I wonder if the bus overpass and the CP Spur are in there in part to be cut when people understandably raise their eyebrows at the project cost without significantly compromising the line. The overpass especially is an absurd alternative to just, like, installing signal priority to make sure the one ...

Is the diversion onto the CP spur just an excuse to buy it with transit money?

Maybe I'm just missing it, but is there anything in there that defines what the different time periods mean? I'm assuming PM Rush still goes until 6:30, and evening starts then, but where's the transition to Night? 10pm? A few routes mention "late night" service, does that imply service past ...

Very cool! I'm hoping it's a precursor to eventually allowing fare purchases through the app like other cities do. It's so nice when traveling to have a single app that just works pretty much wherever you go.

A startup would like to convert the old Harvest States grain elevator at 41st and Hiawatha into an urban farm , starting by growing cannabis on the ground level of each silo, but eventually expanding to a vertical hydroponic system to use the full 100' height, and possibly expanding into other crops ...

Wild to look at an aerial from even 2015 and realize that there's no (major) parking lots fronting Washington between Hennepin and 35W anymore.

Hoping they can get moving on Harmonia soon, though I fear that with *waves hands* everything happening right now they're just going to sell the old data ...

I wonder if they'd be able to operate out of Psycho Suzi's for this summer - it's got a dock, it's got plentiful parking, presumably they could use the bathrooms, etc, in the building. On the other hand, it would also require Leslie Bock to accept that someone might do something with her property ...

It is! Thanks for the link, my Google skills were not up to the task.

Did MnDOT actually release the overarching corridor study that they were supposed to be done with by Feb 1st, or did they just decide not to bother?

I hadn't realized they'd secured all the funding, but the Boom Island trail connection will be built this summer . The Plymouth Avenue Bridge will be closed from April 21st to August 22nd, after which the East Bank Trail will pass over a new bridge over the Boom Island Marina and then through a new ...

From what I understand, an NRHP designation mostly just unlocks historic preservation grants and/or tax subsidies for restoration, it doesn't really prevent changes to (or even demolition of) a designated structure like local designation does. That being said, I would of course expect any proposal ...