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- February 18th, 2024, 12:21 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Northstar Commuter Rail
- Replies: 952
- Views: 247993
Re: Northstar Commuter Rail
New Northstar Study has dropped. https://www.dot.state.mn.us/passengerrail/northstar/index.html 2036-2038 implementation is absolute BS Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Most seem to suggest a 2040 in-service date. That's just a short 16 years from now! I'm confident our train-riding president Joe...
- December 25th, 2023, 4:25 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1320551
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
If I was King I'd just run trains from EP to West lake LRT service as an express route then a bus bridge from West lake to downtown via Lake St & Hennepin Ave. Also would extend Greenline Officially to Farmers Market, and Penn Stations. Until the tunnel was ready ..but I'm not so I can't... sorry?
- August 2nd, 2023, 3:06 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
- Replies: 1803
- Views: 1092363
Re: Bicycle Infrastructure
Here’s How to Get Your Very Own Boulevard Bike Rack wow, that's really interesting and awesome. I would never had thought they would just let people build their own bike parking spaces like that. I definitely would have built two one for me and one for my neighbors. Don't we have some bike activist...
- June 5th, 2023, 12:41 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
- Replies: 1803
- Views: 1092363
Re: Bicycle Infrastructure
Shall we invite the children from kars4kids.org to watch as well?
- May 30th, 2023, 7:14 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Red Line (Cedar Avenue BRT)
- Replies: 538
- Views: 237206
Re: Red Line (Cedar Avenue BRT)
The Red Line 147th St Station received 7 million in the Transportation Omnibus bill to build a skyway between the northbound and southbound platforms. All I can think of is what a waste of 7 million dollars. Yes, a complete waste! However, hypothetically speaking.. If there was by chance a redevelo...
- May 30th, 2023, 6:59 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
- Replies: 1803
- Views: 1092363
Re: Bicycle Infrastructure
Here is a quote from Minneapolis's Vision Zero Action Plan. "Due to a variety of factors, Minneapolis Police stopped fewer than 3,000 people in 2021 for moving or equipment violations—compared to about 16,000 traffic stops in 2019 and about 90,000 traffic stops in 2012" If traffic laws ar...
- May 30th, 2023, 6:48 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Dan Patch Intercity Regional Passenger Rail
- Replies: 183
- Views: 168291
Re: Dan Patch Intercity Regional Passenger Rail
I'm happy for the dan patch gag order being lifted, but still think ziprail has a snowball's chance in hell of happing (at least the true HSR 220mph proposal) regardless unless they can extend it to Chicago. Ya the 220 mph proposal will likely never happen. But for a new greenfield corridor somethi...
- May 24th, 2023, 8:16 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Northern Lights Express
- Replies: 521
- Views: 534635
Re: Northern Lights Express
What is the expected service, like hourly or once every 2 hours during the daytime? It can’t be as infrequent as the Northstar line with only just a few trips a day right? What are the projected ridership is it accurate or unrealistic? Just wondering if anyone here has fact based opinion as to if th...
- March 27th, 2023, 7:32 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Public Bathrooms
- Replies: 20
- Views: 16333
Re: Public Bathrooms
When are we gonna make pay toilets legal again? MN State Statute prohibits them, but public bathrooms are too hard to find. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/145.425 Pay toilets ARE legal. Many different subscription plans and locations between competitors. I usually liked Snap Fitness pay t...
- March 27th, 2023, 7:24 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)
- Replies: 733
- Views: 372779
Re: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)
Wait so the terminus might be in fact a Park and Ride? ...it's beginning to look a lot like Red Line . Somewhere living in the downtowns area is a parking lot fanatic who doesn't drive. he or she is surely the most happy fan of our METRO network. We build all of our lines terminating in big beautifu...
- March 14th, 2023, 4:12 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Northstar Commuter Rail
- Replies: 952
- Views: 247993
Re: Northstar Commuter Rail
Northstar rail post pandemic study results presentation to Transportation Committee; https://metrocouncil.org/Council-Meetings/Committees/Transportation-Committee/2023/March-13,-2023/Info-1_Northstar-Study-for-Trans-Comm_Mar-13-2023_.aspx Ouch.. I think we need to have a conversation of extending t...
- March 13th, 2023, 1:05 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1320551
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
I'll attempt to rank the possible alternatives to the tunnel, in terms of cost-benefit ratio. Hindsight being 20/20, I'd maybe have gone with: 1. Put everything at grade and call the bluff of Minneapolis (Hodges administration, c. 2014-15) to deny municipal consent. In this scenario, Met Council / ...
- March 7th, 2023, 4:26 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
- Replies: 1803
- Views: 1092363
Re: Bicycle Infrastructure
https://racketmn.com/no-nice-ride-bike-share-program-minneapolis-this-year-lyft/ Well this is truly a shame. Nice Ride (and well as Car2Go) was a service that made NOT owning a car superior. You had the flexibility to bike to work and then take the skyway home if it was raining. Or take the bus. Th...
- March 7th, 2023, 3:47 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1320551
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Correct me if I'm wrong... but the entire issue is JUST between The North side of the channel just south of the Burnham Rd. bridge and north of West Lake St. crossing and the challenge of fitting in the bike trail back in once the LRT lines are constructed correct? Knowing what we know now.. it woul...
- February 22nd, 2023, 4:21 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: North Loop Green - 350/360 N 5th St - 35 stories - 393'/418'
- Replies: 205
- Views: 181939
Re: North Loop Green - Hines - 350 N 5th St(?) - 35 stories - 393'/418'
Now visible from the skyway over 4th St between 4th and 5th Ave. https://i.imgur.com/MwZBbLd.jpg Apologies for being a bit off-topic but... Wouldn't it be wonderful if DID Ambassadors were our aggressive champions in helping keep bike lanes clear? Like, they would have traffic control on speed dial...
- February 20th, 2023, 12:27 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1320551
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Can we just fill in the tunnel and do it at grade Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I wonder if an at-grade LRT track AND an underground bike trail would have been a cheaper option from the start? Just imagine, a somewhat-heated winter tunnel to warm up in during a long bike commute during the col...
- February 1st, 2023, 8:04 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis LRT Tunnel Discussion
- Replies: 49
- Views: 23174
Re: Downtown Minneapolis LRT Tunnel Discussion
Ok I like the idea of an underground LRT tunnel.. I think of the possibilities! An underground connection directly into the US Bank Stadium, A direct connection to the Hennepin county courthouse tunnel/skyway corridor, An merged Hennepin/Nicollet Mall station that provides a pedestrian-only corridor...
- January 24th, 2023, 8:26 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Retail News
- Replies: 1432
- Views: 519429
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Retail News
...Remember back when we were all talking about a downtown Minneapolis Casino? Imagine if we could find a way to build a casino downtown, imagine an "upscale outlet mall" built into an urban format. Imagine we were able to get Duluth Trading Company to anchor a "Native Minnesota Brand...
- January 24th, 2023, 7:39 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Northern Lights Express
- Replies: 521
- Views: 534635
Re: Northern Lights Express
That's great news, but we really are going to have a Duluth to Minneapolis train transit line that dumps people out on an outside platform under the 94 entrance ramp bridge? Would be nice if they could lease a floor or half a floor in the Ford Center and build a skyway to the platform or an at-grade...
- November 16th, 2022, 11:25 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Retail News
- Replies: 1432
- Views: 519429
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Retail News
A lot of talk about building owners needing to attract new business downtown but...do businesses even want to be downtown? My job is mostly remote, but I was in the office last week and walking around during a break, there's no other way to describe it other than a ghost town. It's kind of a Catch-...