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

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.

In particular, what would be the impact on the BNSF intermodal yard?

Cataclysmic.

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...

Several tunnels, actually, but they're very short.

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.

I took the self-driving Waymo taxis a bunch of times when I was in Phoenix, and I genuinely loved every minute.

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.

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.

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...

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...

We could've been a real city:

St. Paul stopped doing them entirely, is my understanding. They had been conducted by volunteers with the Bicycle Coalition.

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...

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...

Both options are being evaluated.

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.

Bandana Square in St. Paul still has a hotel.

They've been looking for a buyer for several years, but I see the property is no longer listed.

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...

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...