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- February 29th, 2024, 6:10 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1028700
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Projected ridership is also now estimated at 11,500 to 13,000 a day, so about the same as what the D line is currently doing. Yay.
- January 10th, 2024, 10:29 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1323058
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
If that was considered I'm guessing it was rejected because of visual blight of the bridge and the need for security fencing so people don't throw stuff onto the tracks or overhead wires. I attended the earliest public meetings where the options were shown including putting the bike trail on a brid...
- November 13th, 2023, 8:52 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1028700
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Metro transit re-ran the projected ridership numbers using the new FTA formula... it's not good. 18.5k daily riders down from 26.6k. Combine with the higher costs of this route with the new alignment and it's gonna be tough to get a federal match on this project as-is according to Scott Dibble. http...
- June 2nd, 2023, 9:58 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2974
- Views: 764675
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
There’s not a single corridor that has the ridership to justify rail in a post-pandemic world where ridership is down by half. Heck even the current blue and green lines, if planned at their current ridership, would never be approved as rail corridors.
- January 18th, 2023, 8:44 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Transit Crime
- Replies: 280
- Views: 1053879
Re: Transit Crime
https://www.startribune.com/metro-transit-crime-in-2022-on-board-trains-buses-increased-by-half-over-previous-year/600244564/ Unfortunately it looks like it's not just the perceptions of a few suburbanites this time. Per Metro Transit, overall crime reported up 54%. Narcotics violations up 182%. We...
- April 19th, 2022, 12:07 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
- Replies: 1298
- Views: 864604
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
Anyone have scuttlebutt on Target office thinking? I spent Christmas Eve with a fairly senior (design department head) Target worker, and when asked, their response was that they are never going back. They said maybe they’ll go in one day a week when there’s a special meeting or something. They wer...
- April 13th, 2022, 6:20 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Richfield - 66th Street - General Topics
- Replies: 304
- Views: 97841
Re: Richfield - 66th Street - General Topics
It's basically a big box strip mall, except they replaced the old rainbow foods with an apartment block. You're all kidding yourself if you think any of this retail will be truly street facing.
- February 11th, 2022, 9:09 am
- Forum: Saint Paul
- Topic: Saint Paul - General Topics
- Replies: 695
- Views: 420481
Re: Saint Paul - General Topics
https://www.startribune.com/st-paul-reveals-early-plans-for-1-5-mile-river-balcony/600145447/ James Connor Field (same people as who did the Nicollet Mall redesign) just revealed their concepts for the long-awaited St. Paul River Balcony. No mention in the article of specific costs or how STP plans ...
- January 25th, 2022, 4:36 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1323058
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Star Trib is reporting it's more like $210m and 30-34 month delay:
https://www.startribune.com/extra-210m- ... 600139538/
https://www.startribune.com/extra-210m- ... 600139538/
- December 9th, 2021, 1:39 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1028700
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Mike Opat's hubris is the single biggest reason BNSF walked away from this project and left us with this mess.
- October 28th, 2021, 11:26 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Nicollet-Lake - greater Kmart area
- Replies: 494
- Views: 327858
Re: Nicollet-Lake Area - to Kmart...and beyond!
^ speaking of which, looks like the homeless shelter at 1st and 28th street will be expanding from 1 to 5 floors: https://www.minnpost.com/metro/2021/10/ ... in-county/
- July 13th, 2021, 2:06 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1028700
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
I highly recommend you all actually listen to or watch the video about W. Broadway. The Met Council is basically like, "Center running is the only way," and then community members pipe in and say basically, "We don't see how you're going to fit this in here at all without tearing dow...
- July 13th, 2021, 8:31 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1028700
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
What's wrong with parking cars on the concrete directly under the elevated rail deck, between the support poles? you could probably fit quite a few if you did angled parking to make up for the loss of curbside parking. Or am I missing something obvious here.
- July 13th, 2021, 7:47 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1028700
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Only one travel lane and no parking isn't going to go down well to say the least. How they'll fit stations in too is beyond me.
- June 22nd, 2021, 8:38 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
- Replies: 2032
- Views: 838505
Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
A plan to ‘reanimate’ downtown’s Nicollet Mall Great to see business leaders step up here. It will be hard to make downtown vibrant again without more downtown workers coming back, but OTOH if these groups can do some programming to make nicollet less dead it will hopefully entice more office worke...
- March 28th, 2021, 8:48 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Retail News
- Replies: 1432
- Views: 520686
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Retail News
It's certainly bad all over, but the impacts are far more noticeable downtown (as in impactful on the quality of life). Basically the draw of downtown is the things that have been crushed as a result of the pandemic (walkable vibrancy). The 'draw' of Eden Prairie doesn't change all that much even i...
- March 11th, 2021, 10:49 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
- Replies: 1298
- Views: 864604
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
Well 1m sq. feet of office space can now be filled by...something. Maybe we'll see more creative re-use of this space like we've seen before with more AirBnB/investor apartments. In the meantime I'd tap the breaks on the grand mass-transit plans because this won't be the only large downtown company ...
- October 26th, 2020, 10:38 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Uptown - LynLake - The Wedge - News & General
- Replies: 1502
- Views: 621344
- February 13th, 2020, 1:07 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1028700
Re: Bottineau LRT (Blue Line Extension)
Or the county could just admit they screwed up, offer BNSF the crystal connection they want, and move on. If the railroad still won't budge after that then it looks far worse on them.
- February 11th, 2020, 1:00 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Gold Line BRT - Downtown St. Paul to Woodbury
- Replies: 495
- Views: 170873
Re: Gold Line BRT (Gateway Corridor)
FTA drops gold line ranking to "medium low", imperiling federal funding unless changes are made. Article specifically mentions bolstering the park-and-ride elements.
http://www.startribune.com/gold-line-bu ... 567764922/
http://www.startribune.com/gold-line-bu ... 567764922/