urbanMSP

You know what the biggest head scratcher for me about O'Toole. its this little stub from his Wikipedia page under personal life While critical of government subsidies to all forms of transportation, O'Toole is a fan of passenger trains and an amateur rail historian. His web site, Streamliner Memorie...

IIRC CalTrain instead of opting for the FRA crash standard went with the International Union of Railways (UIC) standards and is the reason the FRA gave them a waiver Although I'm a bit skeptical at the chances of the Dan Patch corridor being electrified. Since it was already brought up I'll use CalT...

did they change the plans for future development around the Shady oak station or did they just not render it (kinda fell out of the loop on t he SWLRT progress)

you know I've kind of been wondering why they go with a sales tax increase rather then a real estate or something since one of the main benefits to a new transit lines is that they are a magnet for new economic development around it. But then again I know absolutely nothing about how MN tax works so...

So anyone go to SPUD yesterday for train days, dropped by to look around and got some packets but didn't really have time to ask any questions for the people running each booth.

with this hopefully most of the drama around SW dies down aside from a few shouts here and there from a small group of individuals. That being said funding for operating the line becomes the main issue (which might be better suited for the Minnesota Transportation Funding thread) but if I had one id...

Mini Jimmy's" for $6 http://www.citypages.com/restaurants/you-can-get-jimmy-johns-sandwiches-on-sun-country-flights-now/420890393 OK I work at a JJ's and am somewhat used to the debatable overpriced sandwiches, but 6 bucks for a Mini which is only half of a normal sandwich, you have to be kidd...

Might be a bit late to voice my opinion on driverless cars, in theory I like them but the biggest issue I see them from becoming reality is one very big monkey wrench, human drivers. The test footage I've seen of driverless cars seems like there only operated on close tracks/very quiet streets and t...

I'm curious if they do start setting up retail at some of the station whether or not some of the money will go back to metro transit to help pay for the systems overall operating costs and whether or not it will help that much. Also this kind of reminds me of an idea a friend had where metro/Hennepi...

Speaking of Florida, anyone else kepping tabs on brightline: the private passenger train set to begin service in about 3ish months, or is that just me...

They do have ticket machines but there not on the station platforms which is probably the biggest issue trying to implement it into our system, it kinda works like how you trsnsfer from bus to bus here where you insert your ticket in a machine then spits it back out.

Might only be me but with the fair increase I kind of hope metro starts talking about the possibility of adding more zones besides the 2 downtown ones as well as an easier way to pay for them. For instance I know I'm being a little idealistic but I kind of imagine something like the London undergrou...

Bit out of nowhere but anyone know or have a source listing the most used/visited stations on the green line, just for curiosities sake.

The only thing I'm scratching my head about is why they didn't attempt this first if its for the good of MN to stop the swlrt since because of there earlier attempt to literally different funds to roads seems like a last ditch attempt to direct money elsewhere.

I kind of which they could of started earlier or later so that construction wouldn't interfere with the Raspberry Festival in July, specifically Saturday and Sunday when its already kind of a nightmare trying to navigate downtown, but you cant have everything. Also I'm willing to bet once the Artery...

This is interesting, always thought it was a little bit of a waste to have the line never getting to st cloud. Since it looks like at the moment 1 roundtrip a day I imagine that its going to use one of the weekday trains so if your coming from st. cloud you don't have to hop on the northstar link th...

Since at the moment it looks like the project is using the same rolling stock (Siemens Charger) as Brightline in Florida I wonder if the service proves successful this summer, it might make BNSF or MNDOT take a few notes for the NLX.

So I take it at best construction will start in summer which around the Hopkins might be a bit of a nightmare with that and the 169 bride of nine mile closed in till October and as whether the FTA funding will be pulled i'm kind of leaning towards the side of it probably not going to happen since we...

Any idea when construction is supposed to start, I know it was said it would start this year and run into 2020 with service beginning in 2021 but given how its still being heavily fought over in the capital I hope I'm wrong but I kind of have a gut feeling than the December 31st will roll around and...