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- April 22nd, 2024, 11:09 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2949
- Views: 720655
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Not much potential to accelerate G Line since its timeline is set by Rice and Robert re-dos. H Line maybe, though the overlap of Purple Line may be complicating.
- April 8th, 2024, 11:26 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 349
- Views: 144808
Re: Interstate 94
Cataclysmic.In particular, what would be the impact on the BNSF intermodal yard?
- April 8th, 2024, 10:20 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Discontinued Bus Routes
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6861
Re: Discontinued Bus Routes
I wince every time I drive down St. Clair Avenue and see those signs. I know it was probably close to the worst-performing urban bus route in the system, but it's a long walk to Grand or Randolph...
- April 3rd, 2024, 6:49 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Gold Line BRT - Downtown St. Paul to Woodbury
- Replies: 495
- Views: 156038
Re: Gold Line BRT (Gateway Corridor)
Several tunnels, actually, but they're very short.
- March 21st, 2024, 9:15 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Northern Lights Express
- Replies: 510
- Views: 510150
Re: Northern Lights Express
Slow progress on the TCMC second train has been an impediment for NLX. Ramsey County finalized the Union Depot lease just this week, so service on that should begin (fingers crossed) in a couple months.
- March 18th, 2024, 3:25 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Uber/Lyft
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3907
Re: Uber/Lyft
I took the self-driving Waymo taxis a bunch of times when I was in Phoenix, and I genuinely loved every minute.
- March 11th, 2024, 10:37 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Westminster Church
- Replies: 196
- Views: 326711
Re: Westminster Church
Remember when this project was sold by telling the city they would also build affordable housing?
Anyway, the new forest on Marquette is looking nice.
Anyway, the new forest on Marquette is looking nice.
- March 4th, 2024, 2:35 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1194
- Views: 561810
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Has anyone here ever actually tried taking Route 54 on Glumack Rd to or from Terminal 1 during Uber/Lyft drop off peak hours? If you had, you would understand the problem with buses on this corridor.
- March 2nd, 2024, 5:07 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1194
- Views: 561810
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
It's truly hilarious to see people say "apply the lessons of the Blue Line Extension" and then suggest that this line should be diverted to a privately owned rail corridor far away from the destinations transit riders actually want to get to. The money for this line is coming from Ramsey C...
- January 17th, 2024, 11:41 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)
- Replies: 733
- Views: 354216
Re: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)
Not to mention that the major Highway 36 interchanges are located in the most wind-swept suburban hellscapes imaginable. Imagine a vertical transfer from a 36 BRT to the A Line in the middle of a cloverleaf. Who's going to take an infrequent bus 20 minutes into the suburbs and wait next to a freeway...
- January 9th, 2024, 2:45 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5283
- Views: 1268756
- January 9th, 2024, 10:24 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
- Replies: 1803
- Views: 1054653
Re: Bicycle Infrastructure
St. Paul stopped doing them entirely, is my understanding. They had been conducted by volunteers with the Bicycle Coalition.
- September 29th, 2023, 12:24 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: HERC - Hennepin Energy Recovery Center
- Replies: 33
- Views: 73900
Re: HERC - Hennepin Energy Recovery Center
I somehow think converting HERC to a fossil fuel plant downtown would not be more politically feasible than shutting it down lmao. There's no world where people currently upset with HERC would just go "oh okay, it's a fossil fuel plant now, that's better." HERC is on the way out. It's not...
- September 29th, 2023, 10:27 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: HERC - Hennepin Energy Recovery Center
- Replies: 33
- Views: 73900
Re: HERC - Hennepin Energy Recovery Center
Look, there is zero chance that HERC moves and gets redeveloped even if the waste to energy use disappears. The district heating capacity is needed to keep downtown Minneapolis running and there is not a lot of redundancy built into the system. You would need to have the replacement plant up and run...
- September 27th, 2023, 1:05 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)
- Replies: 733
- Views: 354216
- September 18th, 2023, 9:03 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)
- Replies: 733
- Views: 354216
Re: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)
E 7th Street is about to get 4-3'd for pedestrian safety, without any room for bus lanes, which means that any alignment there would likely have significant speed and reliability issues. The East Side doesn't need another mixed-traffic bus on a slow road, it needs reliable, quick transit access.
- August 21st, 2023, 9:00 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
- Topic: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics
- Replies: 964
- Views: 349330
Re: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics
They've been looking for a buyer for several years, but I see the property is no longer listed.Bandana Square in St. Paul still has a hotel.
- August 15th, 2023, 10:31 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
- Replies: 1803
- Views: 1054653
Re: Bicycle Infrastructure
Hennepin County and Minneapolis liked to use this design for bike lanes for a while because it meant that you could count the whole width of the gutter pan as part of the bike lane without having to worry about a seam between the asphalt and concrete running down the center of the lane. Minnehaha Av...
- August 4th, 2023, 10:27 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 349
- Views: 144808
Re: Interstate 94
I think there are real differences in traffic reactions between temporary, planned, unplanned and permanent closures (vague sense some snippets of research). Living near Cedar Avenue I can generally tell when 35W is closed for some reason and having bike commuted on Park/Portland during constructio...
- August 3rd, 2023, 1:52 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 349
- Views: 144808
Re: Interstate 94
With over 100,000 cars on any given segment and thousands of semi-trucks, the boulevard option would probably be more like an NYC arterial than a parkway. I'm curious to see what the traffic modeling looks like but I'd expect lots of traffic to move to east-west streets like Lake/Marshall, Franklin...