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- September 29th, 2015, 7:08 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
- Topic: The Link at Prospect Park - 2929 University Ave SE
- Replies: 202
- Views: 47739
Re: RISE at Prospect Park - 2929 University Ave SE
I agree that the parking entrance is a missed opportunity being placed across from the LRT station. Most of the car traffic will be coming off of 29th, with probably Malcolm second, and 30th third (as both Malcolm and 29th are signalized and a vehicle can cross the LRT tracks). But it sure seems li...
- June 4th, 2015, 11:38 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5283
- Views: 1275993
Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)
The numbers are obviously off, everyone knows that, but one of the problems is that you are assuming land use changes, and the forecasting procedure did not/was not allowed to based on federal regs. See this by Eric Roper http://northloop.org/stay-in-the-loop/2014/8/10/ridership-projections-reveal-t...
- October 31st, 2014, 6:34 pm
- Forum: Updates - Announcements - Problems - Suggestions
- Topic: UrbanMSP/streets.mn merger
- Replies: 63
- Views: 30716
Re: Updates and Changes
And if streets.mn wanted more posters from urban about construction development architecture and design why didn't they just ask. Most of us in that profession wouldn't see our insight as relevant to that blog so why would we just randomly submit? Please write more about urban construction developm...
- October 22nd, 2014, 5:24 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Twin Cities Future Transit Map
- Replies: 377
- Views: 80505
Re: Twin Cities Future Transit Map
The #2 bus will continue down Franklin to 21st Station on SWLRT, won't it (equity etc.)?
- September 30th, 2014, 4:39 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line LRT
- Replies: 1297
- Views: 94231
Re: Green Line (Central Corridor LRT)
The real reason for the transitway routing is that it was needed to get the slope right for the tunnel under Washington Avenue. They of course dropped the tunnel under Washington Avenue. But the EIS was done, so they kept the alignment. There are BS reasons like University Avenue wasn't wide enough,...
- September 3rd, 2014, 11:50 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line LRT
- Replies: 1297
- Views: 94231
Re: Green Line (Central Corridor LRT)
@mdcastle - I don't think you'd need an too many fixed time plans for Nick Musachio's Always Green. They key would be making sure the signals were clock timed, and only releasing the train from the station when there is a window of green lights for the next N traffic signals. Since the train speed c...
- August 2nd, 2014, 6:53 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Gold Line BRT - Downtown St. Paul to Woodbury
- Replies: 495
- Views: 157406
Re: Gateway Corridor
Yeah, but if they can free ride a freeway BRT on a MnPASS lane (with inline stations, which aren't free), the economics change a lot. It would serve both local collector/distributor buses with a straight line to downtown and P&R trips at stations.
- July 27th, 2014, 9:44 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
- Topic: Hampton Inn Prospect Park - 2812 University Ave SE
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5978
Re: 2812 University Avenue SE
This is hardly suburban, there is parking in the back, but the building fronts the sidewalk. You can't have a hotel in the modern world of Minneapolis without parking. My guess is the economics for structured parking don't work here, since land is still plentiful. This is far better than either of t...
- July 10th, 2014, 12:20 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bus Shelters
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2698
Re: Bus Shelters
Not to defend the policy, but a rationale may be that the because the suburbs have lower frequency, this comes closer to equalizing person time spent in a shelter. I still think we have far too many bus stops (which reduces the number of persons per stop, and thus the likelihood of the stop qualifyi...
- May 23rd, 2014, 1:06 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Como-Harriet Streetcar Line
- Replies: 66
- Views: 11820
Re: Como-Harriet Streetcar Line
Yeah, if someone wants to make a GTFS file from this network, we can do an Accessibility Analysis. We will give you a huge acknowledgment, or perhaps even co-authorship if you do some writing. This requires knowing the schedules.
- May 21st, 2014, 6:11 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Como-Harriet Streetcar Line
- Replies: 66
- Views: 11820
- May 2nd, 2014, 9:58 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
- Topic: Doubletree by Hilton - 501 Huron Blvd SE
- Replies: 88
- Views: 21643
Re: Huron and Essex Hotel
I'd guess taxi and chartered bus as well. The Commons (nee Radisson) has Chartered buses for sports teams all the time.
- April 9th, 2014, 1:19 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: MN Highway 610
- Replies: 75
- Views: 13421
Re: Hwy 610
Has anyone identified who the actual beneficiary land-owners are? This would be interesting.
- December 30th, 2013, 11:44 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line LRT
- Replies: 629
- Views: 254579
Re: Blue Line (Hiawatha LRT)
Whether it is doing better than forecast depends on which forecast. The Alternatives Analysis predicted ridership of 37,000, the Final EIS lowered this number.
See Table 7 http://www.fta.dot.gov/documents/NSPA2007_Final(1).pdf
See Table 7 http://www.fta.dot.gov/documents/NSPA2007_Final(1).pdf
- December 10th, 2013, 7:02 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: POLL: Name the Vikings Stadium!
- Replies: 39
- Views: 15837
Re: POLL: Name the Vikings Stadium!
The advantage of US Bank Stadium is that it pairs nicely with TCF Bank Stadium, so we would have the East Bank and the West Bank.
- September 6th, 2013, 6:10 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
- Topic: Gould Apartments - 501 15th Ave SE
- Replies: 64
- Views: 20011
Re: (501 15th Avenue Southeast)
Yes, the property records explode in 1900. See this movie for a visualization of that + streetcars.
http://www.nexus.umn.edu/Movies-Full/TC ... _movie.m4v
http://www.nexus.umn.edu/Movies-Full/TC ... _movie.m4v
- August 30th, 2013, 10:55 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5283
- Views: 1275993
Re: Southwest Corridor (Green Line Extension)
"In contrast, there are no policies at any level of government supporting the continued existence of cookie-cutter 1980s middle-class townhomes." Um, the 5th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain just sayin' At any rate, assuming...
- August 12th, 2013, 8:20 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: West End area - St. Louis Park / Golden Valley
- Replies: 206
- Views: 92700
Re: The Flats at West End - St. Louis Park
That is because of Mn 100 (The Lilac Way) being the "beltway", not because of US12, which wasn't upgraded fully until ~1994 (I-394).
There is a nice documentary on The Lilac Way, http://www.restorelilacway.com/Mn_DOTs_Partnership.html
There is a nice documentary on The Lilac Way, http://www.restorelilacway.com/Mn_DOTs_Partnership.html
- July 29th, 2013, 1:39 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Pleasant Street and Pillsbury Drive Roundabout
- Replies: 44
- Views: 5292
Re: Pleasant St and Pillsbury Dr Roundabout
I biked through this going through on Pleasant St, and I thought it was fine. Traffic should be pretty light here once buses are going back down Washington. And I'm fine with the barriers currently, as it's just an experiment on how the traffic works. The cameras in the intersection say "Depar...
- April 22nd, 2013, 9:09 am
- Forum: Saint Paul
- Topic: New Bell Museum/Planetarium
- Replies: 51
- Views: 12136
Re: New Bell Museum/Planetarium
The Twin Cities could have a great (or at least very good) Science and Technology Museum if you combined the Bell, with the Science Museum, with a Planetarium, with the Bakken, with the Works. (Just as it could have a great Transportation museum, ...). There are network effects to combining faciliti...