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I just want them to open up the trail again, the ceder lake/Kenilworth loop was exactly 12 miles depending where you hopped in and was probably my favorite route in school if I wanted to do a quick ride.

*The ghost of ziprail has entered the chat

So is commuter rail and regional rail basically the same cities and same infrastructure, except commuter rail scheduling is optimized for commuting and regional rail scheduling is optimized for living?

Now that I think about it, maybe since a handful of commuter rails have switched over to more ...

I think an issue I see with regional rail in the state is a lot of the cities are either close enough that LRT might be better, too far that it be better suited for a intercity (or does anyone want to argue whether a service to Rochester or Mankato would be regional instead of intercity), or too ...

I've been wondering why there's been little progress on the rest of the site for awhile, does anyone know what the initial timeline was and how much Alatus is supposedly behind on?

Feels weird that the state is more likely to get more trains if the talk of Wisconsin looking in to a second borealis is true then any MN lead project when 15 years ago Walker killed the proposed HSR project and zip rail was still in the state wide plan.

Aerial drawing of the Footprint proposal at Mainstreet and 5th.

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20250321/c2d1ef68e218dfe75c8b9fb4a1626314.jpg

I think the fill in will be a nice change for this block and corner at the east end of Mainstreet.

Yeah these look good, but if we really want to ...

I assume it'll depended whether the current administration will try to spin it as "blue state returning the money the stole" and want the money back or "look how even make state governments more efficient" and wave the amount because I'm 90% certain the MN GOP are banking on the later.
If they do ...

I think I remember someone saying the city wants to market itself towards single vehicle families, families who would normally have 2 or 3 cars anywhere else but can get around fine in the city with just one.
I don't know If whoever said this is actually involved with planing or is just assuming ...

Someone who actually remembers this stuff probably should chime in but from what I've heard 2nd hand from older coworkers, Ventura was all for it and if he had a 2nd term it probably would of gotten to St. Cloud. But Pawlenty didn't want it at first and only changed his mind after mndot proposed a ...

https://x.com/callaghanpeter/status/1894072363567681587?s=46

They just announced they are planning to transition to bus service in the Northstar Corridor.


Again gonna take this with a bucket of salt because how many studies have there been to shake up the status quo in the 2ish decades since ...

https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/state-legislator-seeks-to-kill-twin-cities-northstar-commuter-rail/
Looks like it's the annual empty threat to "kill Northstar" again
I swear there has been an attempt even year or so and I take them as seriously as when someone pushes a bill to ...

That reminds me of something a little baffling, apparently it costs so much to build new transmission wires because of nimbyism there's a idea that it's cheaper to throw a battery on a flatbed and and send it via train.

Although this was pitched by a startup and we all know many startup rail ...

Just checking there are no land bridges/wildlife overpasses in the state right?
Only asking because last year when I was visiting relatives down south we stopped by a 150 ft wide land bridge they turned into a little nature park/walking trail and while the sound of the highway was still present it ...

Remind me how long was it for both the green and blue lines to go from "construction is finish" too "the line is officially open" because I can think of a few horror stories about some lines that where fully built, but took 3+ years to start service because of some issue found while testing.

I used to have several older coworkers who used to tell me a place called Boston garden used to be the best restaurant on mainstreet but never recovered after the main cook passed away. I think last time I checked there's 15 restaurants, 2 of which are the only chains. But I do have a suspicion some ...

There was a Sam's club which as a broke middle and high schooler with no car fed me and several friends for multiple summer vacations. Now iirc it's just some offices.
But if I had to bet why Louisiana exists, probably politics where there was an unspoken agreement that SLP gets 3 stations or was ...

At this point I kind wonder which has more passengers
Northstar with it's 4 round trip weekday only schedule
or Borealis/Empire builder's daily schedule only counting stops between St. Paul, Redwing, and Winona.

I was trying to joke a bit with the "at this rate" part, but I'm still curious where things will stand 10 years from now because the way I see the sprawl we have isn't as uniformly spread out but clumps along they major highways and interstates because outside of 494/694 we don't have any massive ...

I think a follow up question would be where does the MSP region spawl end and greater/rural MN begin because a decade ago I wouldn't even consider some of southern suburbs apart of the region
At this rate, in 10 years we might be talking about how sprawling St Cloud is as a suburb or how Faribault ...