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The only thing about the lakes I might argue is people from the western suburbs might favor the western lakes over the ones in the chain of lakes either because its their "home lake", less crowded, more to do, etc.
Although one thing I might say that the SWLRT has is that it already parallels an ...

This is and a few other projects makes me wonder how much debt/bonds is the state allowed to issue every year? Because while several people have already pointed at things that probably makes it cost a lot, I still think the fact that there's no big pile of cash reserved for transit projects ...

Looking at the timeline and thinking of other projects around the metro, I wonder if the bloated timeline is a little bit of "we don't have enough money right now so where gonna extend things and hope we get the rest later" or "where gonna make this a coinvent political football for the next few ...

I saw on a local railroad Facebook group that 2 locomotives and 8 coaches are on the move this evening heading to Texas, where they're being leased by Trinity Railway Express of Dallas/Fort Worth for the World Cup. It had me wondering if TRE would end up buying and keeping them, but TRE has ...

Kwik trips attempted expansion to the inner ring suburbs continues, this time eyeing a lot on Minnetonka Blvd. and 169 where the old Sinclair gas station is/right across the street from the outlook apartments.
https://www.minnetonkamatters.com/kwik-trip
https://www.minnetonkamatters.com/32364 ...

That reminds me of a video that showed up in my feed awhile ago
https://youtu.be/gtiiHXsnsrY?si=GP3x20L7DQfJpF6Z
Maybe being viewable on street view should be a condition.

Thanks for all the links, this really helps me out because maybe it's due to frequenting more rail biased places but a surprisingly amount of them paint road/highway infrastructure as not existing before the intertstate system beyond some mud, dirt, or maybe archaic cobblestone roads and that most ...

Don't know if this is the best place/thread to ask but does anyone know any good books or reports on road and highway projects, construction etc. of the state from before WWII/the interstate system.
I have a school report I'm working on related to it and know a few users have written some quite good ...

wouldn't it just be cheaper to hire more staff or security to be a permanent presence and some of these stations?

Maybe, this is just some of the back of the napkin math but assuming you want at least one officer at each station at all times that's 6,935 billable hours, assuming it still runs ...

as a counterpoint, I think I recall something about the new turnstiles for the new york subway being a bit underwhelming for their cost at best, think so far its cut down evasion by 20-30% but the cost was about 1.1 billion.
I am personally split on the issue, on one hand I do think a small form of ...

It was one mans decision that indirectly caused ridership to drop and depending on how recent events play out it ridership might spike because of a different decision by the same man.

I actually know a little bit about about EPR because I was looking at the company a few years ago.
Some background info the might be helpful about REITs is that they are one of the two business in the US that take advantage of a tax loophole where if they give over 90% of their earnings to ...

Do people really find peak/off peak confusing?
Don't get me wrong I have found them annoying on more than one occasion, especially when the bus being late is what caused me to pay peak instead of off peak, but it could always be worse, we could have zones where prices can vary wildly if you cross an ...

It might be possible since the reason why the empire builder didn't try backing up to target field is because the train sets where probably too long to navigate the wye/yard without being forced to move at a snails pace (what's it at currently, 10 sleepers and one baggage car?) and the trains where ...

Am I the only one who thinks the blue line extension and green line extension should of been reversed since,
The original blue line is mainly in its own ROW but the extension seems like to be mostly shared/in the middle of the street
While the original green line is mostly shared/in the middle of ...

The lack of trees is more of a nitpick, mainly because the lack of shade on the trail, but it by no means makes it the worst trail in the metro.
That dishonor would probably go to the luce line between Minneapolis and Plymouth.

While it wasn't official open, it was open enough that crews really didn't care putting in any secure barriers aside from some cones and signs, so I did sneak in once before the snow came, and unfortunately it doesn't really feel like a heavily wooded area anymore. Maybe they can replant a few, but ...

The closest we have to regulations is SAE levels of autonomous driving where anything between level 0-2 has no restrictions (2 being stuff like adaptive cruse control and lane centering), levels 3-5 has some regulations depending on the state (MN actually doesn't have any)
Aside from that the only ...

I think the technology is interesting but I don't think it will "solve" transportation like some people where claiming 10 years ago although most people seemed to have abandoned that native and pivoted to something along the lines of being an infinite money glitch.
Although one thing waymo expanding ...

While I will have frequent arguments with some coworkers over whether or not their chicken strips are better or worse then places like canes, I'd argue that it still has probably the best gas station food in the area, a somewhat decent grocery section for milk, eggs, meats, etc. and from what I've ...