urbanMSP

Thanks.

Just hoping arrival of so many vehicles would overwhelm Franklin barn and force progress!

BBC has an article on 'Hyperloop', supersonic ground transport.
Some are evidently taking it seriously.


http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23666173

With all the vehicles arriving, is Cenral East terminus storage barn going to be used, soon?
When could it be ready as a simple covered parking lot?

Our family had our first one, 79 rabbit that my bro literally drove the wheels off of (it wasn't a turbo, just diesel), now they have two VW TD's. Efficiency is insane. The diesel farm trucks get in the low 20's, also remarkable because they're so much heavier than a half ton. EPA did a study using ...

Come to think of it, I don't recall seeing freight pass Cedar with any frequency- It was my daily running circuit while in the Guard.
North of Cedar, yep.

Politics. Central went thru both Hennepin and Ramsey county, Hiawatha; Hennepin and Dakota, so there was even more cooperation needed. Both these lines hit un debatable 'Winner' locations, so there was no question of the merit. Here we have to fabricate terms (i.e. "Near North") to justify...

But it shouldn't stop any project when alternatives are either to not do it or ... I've heard concerns echoed here again and again, that the line has questionable value in the first place. The specific alignment is undoubtedly contested! and is even more so now. So tearing down 26 of someones homes...

Sure- And it may be as the TPSSes (Traction Power Substation) that buying rolls of copper to leave hanging, unused, is very expensive.

Any word on if they're doing more underpower testing at the U?

What's important is that it's someone's home!?
wow.

Interesting. The 'forcity' uses independant wheels (no common axle) so its über low floorand doesn't squeel around corners. Dunno what model Seattle has (cell phone or I'd google). They seem to custom design vehicles for each city, althogh the Prague forcity had others listed and driver was German. ...

If you're talking articulated busses, why not PRT? Question makes exactly as much sense I shoul've titled thread 'elevated rail', as monorail is just a subset. Every line discussed, planned or built interferes (or can't be built) because of a ground obstacle; Traffic Bike lanes Pedestrians Buildings...

interesting piece about the closing of a monorail and remarks about Wuppertal

http://m.smh.com.au/comment/railing-aga ... 2ov2d.html

That video, sounded like they were going to do a whole lot of testing on entire line very soon with vehicles.

I was surprised at lack of progress on overhead lines too; they went almost up to Hamline 1.5x weeks ago, but it was just strung up.
didn't go DT St Paul

Here's a Skoda video http://www.skoda.cz/en/products/tramcar ... e-tramcar/,
their numbers don't seem to jibe with their spec sheet.


Capacity is immense, it's narrower than a bus and comes with a hot German operator.

So it's a mono bus?

Sry, am on cell phone or I'd look it up

Underground? Elevated!
IS there a viable way to fund this????

Perhaps this should be a different thread

Still there. I wonder why they used so course a grinding wheel, or why it wasn't done in stages (course, med fine wheels)? Seems 55 lights might be a little better. I do cheetah flips when there's 100 cars at idle and none using the cross streets. Another question; why were Warehouse and Nicollet sp...

Any news of defects from the run??????

Otherwise, I'll assume the train runs!

Since it runs, when can we ride it to the U?????? Lets get cracking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't people in North deserve some support for development?

wow.

Like a line that went into density of North, so people didn't have to pile into buses like cattle?

Or how about a token station in an area thats "North" in name only so you can say, loudly, that it does serve North?

Pioneer Press had an article on difficulties of construction:

http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_ ... cities.com