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- September 6th, 2014, 10:53 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: U.S. Bank Stadium
- Replies: 2080
- Views: 233755
Re: Minnesota Multi Purpose Stadium
Thank god we're all experts on the Internet, so we can just call the Audubon Society, one of the most respected environmental organizations in the country, crazy.
- September 5th, 2014, 9:49 am
- Forum: Cities Around the World
- Topic: Atlanta
- Replies: 52
- Views: 31400
Re: Atlanta
Yep, you're right. Looked at the wrong column.According to Wikipedia marta rail ridership is 227,000 daily.
- September 5th, 2014, 7:56 am
- Forum: Cities Around the World
- Topic: Atlanta
- Replies: 52
- Views: 31400
Re: Atlanta
MARTA actually goes through most of the inner-city Atlanta neighborhoods you'd want it to go through. MARTA's failure isn't that it was built as a redevelopment system instead of a transit system, it's that there were vast structural and cultural impediments to its success.
- September 5th, 2014, 7:41 am
- Forum: Cities Around the World
- Topic: Atlanta
- Replies: 52
- Views: 31400
Re: Atlanta
If you look at the census data, you'll also notice that almost all of the neighborhoods MARTA passes through except the north are overwhelmingly black. Racism is a big factor in Atlanta's present urban form.
- September 4th, 2014, 7:56 pm
- Forum: Cities Around the World
- Topic: St. Louis
- Replies: 22
- Views: 20499
Re: St. Louis
Also, regarding Indianapolis, note that Indianapolis is *REALLY SMALL* - the entire metro is about 1.7 million. The city-county merger masks this fact and I suppose it's worked from a marketing perspective because people treat it now as though it belongs in the tier of cities that includes Minneapo...
- September 3rd, 2014, 10:36 pm
- Forum: Cities Around the World
- Topic: St. Louis
- Replies: 22
- Views: 20499
Re: St. Louis
St. Louis (like Detroit) is a textbook case of why urban boundaries should keep expanding in the face of metro growth. Indianapolis is far from perfect, but its city-county merger is one of the biggest things it does have going for it.
- September 3rd, 2014, 9:01 pm
- Forum: Cities Around the World
- Topic: Washington, D.C.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5971
Re: Washington, D.C.
They've also caused housing prices to explode, though. I guess that's the price you pay (especially when DC was widely regarded as Murder City what, six or seven years ago?) but I don't know if it's a great model to emulate either.
- September 2nd, 2014, 9:22 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line LRT
- Replies: 1297
- Views: 111873
Re: Green Line (Central Corridor LRT)
Most of the seats in the eastbound Green were taken this morning at about 7:45 when I got off at East Bank, but it wasn't standing room only or anything. That said, though, 7:45 isn't exactly peak hours either.
- September 2nd, 2014, 8:37 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5317
- Views: 1351046
Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)
Yes, which is why we need to undo all the government regulation that is a handout to large-scale developers at the expense of the small-scale and incremental developments that made our cities dense and vibrant a century ago. Like the decent wages and minimum safety standards? Because those are what...
- September 2nd, 2014, 8:20 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5317
- Views: 1351046
Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)
It was also a time when single-lot construction was economically feasible, which it isn't now. We underestimate the importance of that; the ability of a lot of different developers to fill in an area piecemeal was a major impetus to the rapid dense growth of late 19th and early 20th century cities.
- September 2nd, 2014, 6:54 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5317
- Views: 1351046
Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)
It was built by private companies because we had not yet built urban freeways with the expectation that everyone get a car? I think he's referring to the fact that they were frequently built to relatively undeveloped areas as a way to spur development. The borough of Queens, for example, largely di...
- August 31st, 2014, 9:59 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line LRT
- Replies: 1297
- Views: 111873
- August 31st, 2014, 9:55 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
- Replies: 1413
- Views: 669383
Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects
This is exactly why it was so nuts to create makework for people who got into the trades during the housing boom of a decade ago. Nobody asked if there were flat out too many people competing for a sustainable level of work. And we slowed down the proper market feedback to tell people to find other...
- August 30th, 2014, 4:16 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: City living apps
- Replies: 51
- Views: 6710
Re: City living apps
The mobile app seems to be pretty much a wrapper of their mobile site. Looking at it again now it isn't terrible, but it lacks a lot of polish that you'd expect; it doesn't support normal iPhone gestures, the map is Google Maps' web-based embedded map instead of a native one, and you can't select a ...
- August 30th, 2014, 12:25 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5317
- Views: 1351046
Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)
So what happens if Republicans take the state House of Representatives? I assume there isn't much chance that this would get funded in the lame duck session.
- August 30th, 2014, 8:51 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Video Games
- Replies: 158
- Views: 94738
Re: Video Games
NAM = Network Addon Mod. Makes the traffic routing much better.
CAM = Colossus Addon Mod. Changes the growth stages to be more realistic.
CAM = Colossus Addon Mod. Changes the growth stages to be more realistic.
- August 29th, 2014, 9:08 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5317
- Views: 1351046
Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)
That's fine, but what is he going to do about it? I'm certainly not comfortable tearing down hundreds of homes when a community vote was split 50/50 between Penn and BNSF. Will CM Yang demand further study of the Oliver/Queen and Broadway/Washington options? I'd welcome that! If he's not going to d...
- August 29th, 2014, 9:52 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5317
- Views: 1351046
Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)
Does anyone honestly think Councilman Goodman would have voted in favor of the train if they'd "kept their promise" and moved the freight?
- August 29th, 2014, 9:43 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5317
- Views: 1351046
Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)
It stops every five seconds or so in Safari, but it works pretty well in Chrome. IDK.That livestream has been choppy as heck!
Most of these speeches have been pretty silly so far.
- August 28th, 2014, 4:37 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: City living apps
- Replies: 51
- Views: 6710
Re: City living apps
Citymapper looks pretty nice. Transit (iPhone only) is pretty good if you don't have a car, since it has all the public transport plus Nice Ride. Realtime bus locations too, though it doesn't always work.
Last time I used it, OMGTransit's app barely worked. I was really disappointed.
Last time I used it, OMGTransit's app barely worked. I was really disappointed.