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by EOst
January 27th, 2025, 2:37 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: University of Minnesota - News & General Topics
Replies: 623
Views: 1247672

Re: University of Minnesota - News & General Topics


So, I after looking at the Nicollet Mall redesign options, I had to look up what a TEP score was. To save you all some googling , it stands for Transportation Equity Priority and is a way to direct transportation investment based on the demographics of the population living in different areas ...
by EOst
December 26th, 2024, 11:28 am
Forum: Greater Minnesota
Topic: Winona
Replies: 35
Views: 44391

Re: Winona

Wild to see them just trying to just work around that one holdout SFH on 5th. How many of the 17 SFH shown on the Google aerial view are still there?
by EOst
December 5th, 2024, 7:34 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: MN-121 "Lyndale Connector" Turnback and Redevelopment
Replies: 46
Views: 10694

Re: MN-121 "Lyndale Connector" Turnback and Redevelopment

ETA: Looking at HistoricAerials (1957 aerial view, ironically), it looks like 35W essentially terminated here, I'm assuming while the routing through Minneapolis proper was being finalized / acquired. There was no crosstown yet either, so 35W just kind of wiggled over to meet up with Lyndale and ...
by EOst
November 26th, 2024, 9:06 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Gold Line BRT - Woodbury to St. Paul (3/22/2025) and Minneapolis (2027)
Replies: 516
Views: 203810

Re: Gold Line BRT - Woodbury to St. Paul (3/22/2025) and Minneapolis (2027)

It will open on detour down Mounds to E 7th, then back through downtown to the permanent route.

No idea what it'll do when E 7th is under construction in 2026, though.
by EOst
November 22nd, 2024, 10:07 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: HERC - Hennepin Energy Recovery Center
Replies: 74
Views: 92395

Re: HERC - Hennepin Energy Recovery Center

mplsjaromir wrote: November 21st, 2024, 10:54 pmPretty simple for the county and city to tell their haulers to use the least polluting trucks they can.
lol
by EOst
November 7th, 2024, 3:42 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Replies: 1848
Views: 1110480

Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT

Also also, this second administration will likely be very different than the first. But time will tell!

Anyway, is anyone here familiar with Hennepin County's financial modeling on their rail levy and various sales tax funds? It's not inconceivable that they would have the money to defederalize ...
by EOst
November 7th, 2024, 10:02 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Replies: 1848
Views: 1110480

Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT

Project 2025 called for eliminating most of FTA's transit programs, including capital grants. Hard to imagine a Republican congress fighting back on that.
by EOst
October 23rd, 2024, 6:37 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Gold Line BRT - Woodbury to St. Paul (3/22/2025) and Minneapolis (2027)
Replies: 516
Views: 203810

Re: Gold Line BRT - Woodbury to St. Paul (3/22/2025) and Minneapolis (2027)

The city and MnDOT would need to seriously rethink that Riverside/25th/Butler triangle if they wanted to add a Gold Line stop there without intermittent 10+ minute congestion delays. It's probably a bigger project than Metro Transit wants to do for this phase.
by EOst
October 4th, 2024, 9:52 am
Forum: Saint Paul
Topic: Xcel Energy Center
Replies: 61
Views: 133080

Re: Xcel Energy Center

The city has wanted a big hotel attached to the RiverCentre ever since it opened because that's what you need to compete in the national convention market. The city is particularly keen on it now because the RiverCentre ramp needs to be replaced, creating an opportunity there, and because they hope ...
by EOst
September 23rd, 2024, 11:14 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Replies: 3108
Views: 880442

Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)

It would be funny if this is what ultimately got MnDOT and the city on board with widening that short two-lane stretch of northbound Hennepin between the 94 ramp entrance and the flyover.
by EOst
September 17th, 2024, 1:34 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Riverview Corridor Not Streetcar
Replies: 1304
Views: 647383

Re: Riverview Corridor Not Streetcar


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 the ...
by EOst
September 16th, 2024, 8:26 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Replies: 1421
Views: 719632

Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects

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 ...
by EOst
September 10th, 2024, 12:30 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Riverview Corridor Not Streetcar
Replies: 1304
Views: 647383

Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar

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 ...
by EOst
August 23rd, 2024, 8:39 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Metro Transit Network Now Plan
Replies: 30
Views: 6761

Re: Metro Transit Network Now Plan

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 ...
by EOst
August 23rd, 2024, 7:27 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Metro Transit Network Now Plan
Replies: 30
Views: 6761

Re: Metro Transit Network Now Plan

Tcmetro wrote: August 23rd, 2024, 5:23 amthe 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.
by EOst
August 5th, 2024, 1:32 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: New Pedestrian & Bike Bridge Connecting North and Northeast
Replies: 16
Views: 6613

Re: New Pedestrian & Bike Bridge Connecting North and Northeast


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 ...
by EOst
July 27th, 2024, 3:46 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Replies: 1421
Views: 719632

Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects


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 ...
by EOst
July 26th, 2024, 10:00 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Replies: 1421
Views: 719632

Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects

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 ...
by EOst
July 25th, 2024, 8:49 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
Topic: Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
Replies: 705
Views: 386581

Re: Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board

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 ...
by EOst
July 9th, 2024, 11:41 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Pedestrian Safety and Infrastructure Improvements
Replies: 329
Views: 112548

Re: Pedestrian Safety and Infrastructure Improvements

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.