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Not even policymakers know the difference. Didn't Maplewood just say they want Purple Line to be a "letter line?" I know I've heard state legislators talk about how Dakota County wants Metro Transit to 'just give us a letter' about the Red Line. This wasn't confusion, it was money. Before...

Does that explanation strike anyone else as a little strange? I can easily imagine new bus lanes on the current 5-lane section southeast of N 3rd Ave, but the rest of Washington has no BRT routes coming at the moment and needs that space anyway for the planned protected bikeway up to Plymouth. I don...

So why wasn't that same approach considered for Riverview? Other than the river bridge, they could have pursued both ABRT on 7th and LRT in a parallel CP Rail or even Shepard Rd corridor. People fixate on the CP spur and Shepard, but both of those are only viable south of Randolph where West 7th is...

The plan covers the network through 2027 so it only sees through implementation of the B, E, G (north), Gold, and Green Southwest lines. Of those only the G Line has yet to start construction. It's on slide 9 of the presentation. I understand now--misunderstood your post to mean a change in the G L...

the only expansion in the scope of the plan is the north end of the G Line.

Can you elaborate on this? I'm not seeing it in the docs you linked.

This isn't as exciting, but this bridge will only be .34 of a mile north of the Broadway Bridge. Why not just modify that bridge? Since narrowing the roadway is probably out of the question for the Broadway bridge, building a decent trail connection there would require either redecking or (more lik...

Those bus stops at 26th better be sufficient to support C Line ABRT extension down Cedar. Southbound should be fine, but northbound could be a little tricky with the shared use path; you'd either have to shrink the path to 6-8' behind the station or have trail traffic running between the station an...

That separated path/shared use path combo is very over-designed given the actual pedestrian numbers and land use along this stretch of Cedar; I can't imagine that actual real-world compliance will match the design intent here. I also think an 8' two-way bikeway right at the back of the curb is fairl...

The Park Board's general anti-transit policy is one of the worst unquestioned things in Minneapolis government, along with the general agreement that any new bridges across the Mississippi would be blocked by environmentalist lawsuits. Some ultra elitist businessmen 130 years ago didn't want horseca...

There has been some interest from Dakota County in exploring a SW/NE route along either Highway 13 or 35E between Orange/Red and the planned F Line terminus in West St. Paul. I don't think that it has gone anywhere though.

That rendered ramp is already enormous. Make it any bigger and it would completely overwhelm the historic district around it.

Sure seems like there are a lot of tiny studios available at that building at 10th and Marquette.

https://www.keyc.com/2024/06/04/owatonna-gathering-opinions-new-community-center/ They are pushing for a new multi-use community center, potentially downtown. There are a ton of vacant buildings and empty lots still, so could be a great addition to filling in the core. It's an interesting community...

I guess my point is that I don't see how this area would get any less bidirectional use than the area further east. It's not likely that people heading westbound on University are going to navigate a bunch of big intersections to move over to 4th or that they'll even understand how they're supposed ...

It's confusing that University will be a one-way bikeway from Central to 10th and then a two-way bikeway from 10th to Oak. Why even bother with a 4' boulevard? You'll never get a thriving tree in that narrow of a space. Just cut that and make it two-way the whole length, especially since they're alr...

Huh. The language was changed at some point to specify cities of the first class, so only Minneapolis and St. Paul are immune to MERA lawsuits. The suburbs could all still be sued, should anyone wish to.

Don't forget Rochester and Duluth are also first-class.

If you read the report, there is a "restoration" option as well, which is essentially undoing what was done. Did you read the report? Don't try to motte and bailey this. Yes, there's a throwaway in the report, but 99.9% of the messaging and letters are about "the boulevard option.&qu...

A big surface highway carrying any considerable volume of traffic is nothing at all like what was there before the freeway. Boulevard advocates keep saying that, but people should be very clear that the boulevard is a third, wholly different thing from either the current freeway or the old low-traff...

Commissioner Bigham moved to correct the minutes this morning and remove the reference to light rail.

You can see the final revisioning plan here: https://redrockcorridor.com/wp-content/ ... 312024.pdf