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- May 3rd, 2024, 9:05 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
- Replies: 1407
- Views: 650096
Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Might finally be possible to cross the street to get to Hai Hai without risking your life.
- April 23rd, 2024, 10:27 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 372
- Views: 155759
Re: Interstate 94
If I-94 were replaced with a boulevard and gentrification actually occurred, frankly that would be an unbelievable success for the City of St. Paul. That would mean that the redesign had succeeded in creating a truly desirable parklike transportation corridor, with real transit service, and as a res...
- April 22nd, 2024, 8:28 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2961
- Views: 758784
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Per an email from Friday: F Line construction will begin in 2028 instead of 2025, to take advantage of MnDOT's broader work on the whole Central corridor. That will probably mean that the line will launch with the final pick of 2029 instead of the final pick of 2026, although Metro Transit notes tha...
- April 17th, 2024, 12:36 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1317678
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
I've definitely posted this before, but just out of college I lived along the Green Line when it opened and I had an internship in downtown St. Paul. I would frequently take the train to work in the morning when it was cold and I was bleary eyed. Then in the afternoon, I would bike back home. That k...
- April 17th, 2024, 12:18 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2961
- Views: 758784
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
I thought this Tweet was interesting: @Nerd4Cities I’ve been checked by fare enforcement on (Twin Cities) Metro Transit more times in the last four days than I’ve been checked on basically all other light rail systems combined in the last five years. Not saying it’s good or bad, just saying it’s int...
- April 10th, 2024, 8:45 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News
- Replies: 244
- Views: 185833
Re: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News
But it seems as though the Eden Prairie Town Center Station will have no access to the north (Costco direction)? Really unfortunate if that remains the case, a situation that calls for some political pressure.
- April 5th, 2024, 11:31 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Fantasy maps
- Replies: 310
- Views: 157822
Re: Fantasy maps
I last posted my MSP transit map two years ago , but I've been working on it again a bit recently and wanted to share some of the progress. The main design changes are that the METRO lines were doubled in thickness (while not sounding like much, I had to redraw almost all of the downtown areas to ma...
- April 2nd, 2024, 3:36 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Gold Line BRT - Downtown St. Paul to Woodbury
- Replies: 495
- Views: 168515
Re: Gold Line BRT (Gateway Corridor)
They can, if it's a road project!... but I'm glad that this will show that transit projects can be built on time and under budget.
- March 19th, 2024, 10:08 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
- Replies: 721
- Views: 233016
Re: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
Probably belongs in the fantasy category but wouldn't it work to having Midtown Rail Line enter a tunnel right after Cedar travel under Pioneers & Soldiers Cemetery the Hi Lake Shopping Center have an underground stop below the Blue Line then day light and stop on east side of Minnehaha? You wo...
- March 18th, 2024, 11:00 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Retail News
- Replies: 1432
- Views: 517661
- March 15th, 2024, 2:14 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Uber/Lyft
- Replies: 34
- Views: 8845
Re: Uber/Lyft
Metro Transit already runs microtransit service in select areas at a steep subsidy. There's no aspect of the rideshare/TNC model that public ownership solves to make it profitable. If the state wants to run a transportation company that doesn't run efficient fixed routes and doesn't rule out exploit...
- March 15th, 2024, 10:23 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Uber/Lyft
- Replies: 34
- Views: 8845
Re: Uber/Lyft
I'm pretty skeptical that the city level is the correct place for regulation of rideshare companies. But I have no sympathy for the companies themselves. From the start, they've abused information asymmetries with their "employees" to subsidize their anti-competitive pricing. The entire mo...
- February 15th, 2024, 2:32 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development
- Replies: 219
- Views: 95593
Re: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development
I think people really underestimate how many people it takes to turn a greenfield into an actual market for goods and services. The good news, I guess is that there is absolutely enough space in this area to keep adding more homes, offices, and whatever else to activate it. The bad news is that even...
- February 8th, 2024, 1:57 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
- Replies: 2032
- Views: 834144
Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
It's gonna grow by a lot next year as well. Between the Block One, O2, North Loop Green, Duffey 2.0, Strutwear, Northstar Center, and other projects, there are nearly 2,000 units of housing currently under construction which should all mostly be complete in the coming months. There is nothing coming...
- February 7th, 2024, 1:23 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Transit Crime
- Replies: 280
- Views: 1052590
Re: Transit Crime
Yeah, I ride public transit more than most people (although I don't rely regularly on the light rail), and it's been basically non-existent that I've seen crime in the literal sense of someone doing something that they could plausibly be prosecuted for. When people talk about crime on transit, they'...
- February 2nd, 2024, 1:39 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Harmonia - 255 2nd Ave S - 25ish / 20ish / 10ish stories
- Replies: 31
- Views: 34088
Re: Harmonia - 255 2nd Ave S - 25ish / 20ish / 10ish stories
It is a great idea to move the transit layover here from Gateway Ramp, but I suspect it won't happen because neither Metro Transit nor the City have asked for that. We don't know what they have or haven't asked for, or whether they have even considered it. Would Metro Transit turn down a brand-new ...
- February 2nd, 2024, 10:43 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Harmonia - 255 2nd Ave S - 25ish / 20ish / 10ish stories
- Replies: 31
- Views: 34088
Re: Harmonia - 255 2nd Ave S - 25ish / 20ish / 10ish stories
New renderings and a new brand name (Washington Yards) for this project: https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2024/02/01/sherman-downtown-minneapolis-development-office.html The current plan seems to be three buildings; one half-block office building facing Washington, one tall market rate ho...
- January 4th, 2024, 11:58 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1024831
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Between Target Field Station and the Lowry/North Memorial Station, there should be a maximum of four stops. Really, I had hoped there would be three. But four has got to be the absolute limit. Moving the proposed Lyndale Station to the east (Could it sit on the highway bridge? I imagine there are st...
- December 29th, 2023, 2:32 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2961
- Views: 758784
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Metro Transit's November weekday ridership numbers are out, and they're even better than October. Ridership on most services fell surprisingly little in real numbers between those two months, less than is typical, and so November 2023 achieved 59.5% of November 2019 ridership, the best recovery perc...
- December 21st, 2023, 2:37 pm
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Minnesota State Flag and Seal Redeisgn
- Replies: 55
- Views: 252566
Re: Minnesota State Flag and Seal Redeisgn
Snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. The commission flirted with some awful ideas but picked a great one. I've seen people conflating "simple" with "safe." But the chosen design is actually fairly bold, defaulting to a tricolor would've screamed 'FLAG!' and given more colors...