urbanMSP

Holy crap has anything new been said in this debate for the past year?

Could the BNSF Wayzata Subdivision branch be accomplished without elevated structures, pedestrian vertical circulation and bridge reconstruction at Cedar Lake Parkway and Highway 100? If so the extension should be a no-brainer. I think this is trying to accommodate too much into one corridor. How a...

Regarding a 1 track extension to West End, I think that would work perfectly, and would be all that is needed there. Princeton, New Jersey has a similar spur to get from the Princeton Junction stop on the Amtrak line into campus. Works like a dream. And the trip is short enough where only 1 car on ...

Its just another subtle hint that this will be the Packer's second home stadium.

Definitely needs more walkability.

New size limits are heading to a council vote in response to the moratorium lifting:

http://www.startribune.com/local/blogs/269051791.html

I'm honestly surprised this isn't getting more attention from this community: http://www.startribune.com/local/east/268662092.html I'm not from woodbury, or even the east metro, but quotes like this still piss me off to no end: Just as cost was a deciding factor in choosing bus rapid-transit over li...

So where do we go from here on the Red Line and Northstar? Keep things like they are, never expanding Northstar to St. Cloud or adding inline stations to Cedar? Do we say "screw it" and shut them down? Or do we double down and invest more to remedy the shortcoming? The reputation of commut...

http://www.startribune.com/local/south/267427891.html

Should surprise nobody here that the red line isn't going to meet its first year ridership goals. 839 average weekday ridership vs the projected 976.

A lot of what this is straying towards is already covered in the recent discussion on this thread:

https://forum.streets.mn/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1137&start=140

The buildings are spread out, i'll give you that, but there aren't acres of surface parking like you'd expect. Lots of green space. The other thing is, IIRC, these roads get almost no auto traffic during the day. Maybe a few trucks coming and going to the warehouses during the day followed by the sc...

http://blogs.mprnews.org/cities/2014/05/a-stop-by-stop-look-at-southwest-lrt/ 2,964 riders per day, more than EP town center. I guess since I'm from the area I'll give a little support: This station is much closer to the heart of EP's industrial/tech job center, which most people bypass while flying...

More white collar office workers living or working downtown will lead to more service and retail jobs downtown to serve them. However, the industrial or light industry jobs are never coming back downtown and from an environmental standpoint that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Are the aBRT lines going to have METRO branding (/map prominence) or are they going to be under their own brand? It seems like it would be strange to have them anywhere else, but maybe that's the plan. Nah they will get the name Rapid Bus or something and be labeled A, B, C ect. They don't have ded...

The resolution to do the study passed 6-4, but an amendment was added to hold off on it until the Ramsey County study of the revived Riverview Corridor is done. We'll see how long that one takes. I'm not sure if that will have any effect on the B Line bus service. Wow, that's awesome. I'm glad they...

I read somewhere that the deadline has been pushed back til August 29th and Minneapolis hasn't scheduled a vote til August 19th. If that is true, how will it affect the timeline of this project? Why does this need to take another month and a half? I'd rather have this thing done before 2020.

^ Or they will just expand at their current suburban campuses.

I could maybe see US Bank consolidating their Richfield employees downtown, but what I've heard is that realistically they will just move them out to Portland. You're right though, most of the largest employers already have suburban office campuses in addition to or instead of downtown locations. It...

Or a commuter rail connection between SPUD and TFS.

We'd have to revise our ridership projections for pretty much every corridor under study. Bottineau and SWLRT are already above the 20k per day threshold for LRT. SWLRT can't be expedited much more than it is since funding is already pledged and the main constraint is engineering and construction at...