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by COLSLAW5
April 23rd, 2025, 6:44 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
Replies: 1832
Views: 1549248

Re: Bicycle Infrastructure

shocked on my way in this morning but it looks like they are going to be installing a curb to protect the bike lane on Hennepin down to the basilica. now they just need to extend it across the river and we will have an awesome bike connection across downtown
by COLSLAW5
April 14th, 2025, 8:09 am
Forum: Suburbs
Topic: Hopkins
Replies: 392
Views: 193427

Re: Hopkins

From the sounds of it on the MWCD website the stormwater management part of the project will start construction this year. Sounds like this area contains the last 3 projects of a 15 year plan to help re-meander the creek and prevent toxic run off from making its way into the creek. On their website ...
by COLSLAW5
April 11th, 2025, 4:13 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Replies: 3129
Views: 1006383

Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)

This year with the temperature swings has caused the most rail breaks in one season apparently. The plan is to fix the west half up to Raymond excluding DT MPLS over the last weekend in May and the East half into STP in Mid July.

Rail shut downs are coordinated half a year or more in advance ...
by COLSLAW5
April 10th, 2025, 1:34 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Northstar Commuter Rail
Replies: 1032
Views: 348362

Re: Northstar Commuter Rail

Wild, Metro transit can't even operate buses to Big lake and Elk River. So the farthest they will go is Ramsey Station and they are saying that it will take 15 minutes longer from Ramsey. Sounds from the survey that they will try to set up some other route to just serve big lake and elk river then ...
by COLSLAW5
April 8th, 2025, 11:56 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Replies: 1444
Views: 878533

Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects

don't know how you would do it but i would love to see a city wide map with all these plans overlaid on it so we could see how the network is coming together over the next several years.

sorta like this

https://app.publiccoordinate.com/#/proj ... OBline/map
by COLSLAW5
March 25th, 2025, 7:03 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Downtown Minneapolis General Discussion
Replies: 2079
Views: 1089734

Re: Downtown Minneapolis General Discussion

Sounds similar to the on they built in Milwaukee 3rd street market. It was a really good vibe when I was there and had a lot to welcome more families with play areas and games
by COLSLAW5
March 18th, 2025, 11:17 am
Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
Topic: Uptown - LynLake - The Wedge - News & General
Replies: 1515
Views: 856395

Re: Uptown - LynLake - The Wedge - News & General

Permits from the city call it a coffee cafe. But it is owned by Umbra Arts and they look like they set up an art gallery/gift shop in there.
by COLSLAW5
March 13th, 2025, 2:26 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Riverview Corridor B̶u̶s̶ S̶t̶r̶e̶e̶t̶c̶a̶r̶ Bus
Replies: 1303
Views: 758901

Re: Riverview Corridor Not Streetcar

page 7 of the presentation has a pretty well shown drawing of that new ramp. seems like really minimal work
by COLSLAW5
March 13th, 2025, 8:42 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Riverview Corridor B̶u̶s̶ S̶t̶r̶e̶e̶t̶c̶a̶r̶ Bus
Replies: 1303
Views: 758901

Re: Riverview Corridor Not Streetcar

I feel like we need to break out what the cost of a road rebuild alone will be. This needs to be done either way and I can only imagine it is at least 30% of the cost of this project. This is a similar length to the gold line with massively less bus only infrastructure and they are saying it is ...
by COLSLAW5
March 7th, 2025, 8:22 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Replies: 3129
Views: 1006383

Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)

Metro Transit is sponsoring "Royale" the premium subscription for the Transit App. Sounds like they are actually using the survey data that the app collects on vehicle and stop cleanliness which is awesome to hear
by COLSLAW5
February 24th, 2025, 7:25 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Replies: 1444
Views: 878533

Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects

They should look to the Nicollet ave project they just finalized in Richfield. I know their city has a lot more interest in safe street design and they are putting up money for a lot of the street features but would be great to see this just copied down into Bloomington. Raised crosswalks ...
by COLSLAW5
February 18th, 2025, 8:57 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Better Bus Routes - Metro Transit
Replies: 41
Views: 98809

Re: Better Bus Routes - Metro Transit

kinda funny they are eliminating the 61B branch as Metro Transit is going to be occupying 2 buildings along that stretch of Industrial BLVD.
by COLSLAW5
February 14th, 2025, 12:05 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Replies: 1444
Views: 878533

Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects

I really like that we are doing these road diets with better ped bike and bus infrastructure. But we need to move onto the next steps of better intersection design. Raised crosswalks and other treatments to better protect people from turning onto and off this road. Also raised intersection make ...
by COLSLAW5
February 13th, 2025, 11:50 am
Forum: Suburbs
Topic: West End area - St. Louis Park / Golden Valley
Replies: 217
Views: 150216

Re: West End area - St. Louis Park / Golden Valley

I was looking on google street view and it looks like that building has never been occupied since it was built which is kinda crazy. Makes sense that they would add more office back since they are planning on tearing down the two buildings across the street.

I still feel like it was a major miss ...
by COLSLAW5
February 5th, 2025, 8:08 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Federal Building & Post Office redevelopment speculation
Replies: 20
Views: 6343

Re: Federal Building & Post Office redevelopment speculation

i never realized the post office was expanded in the early 90s adding on the whole back half of the main building. the parking ramp got added in the 70s
by COLSLAW5
February 4th, 2025, 2:12 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Replies: 1848
Views: 1411808

Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT

Also just noticed that they are now showing a two way bike lane on 6th ave into the north loop that was not there in municipal consent plans
by COLSLAW5
February 4th, 2025, 2:02 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Replies: 1848
Views: 1411808

Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT

I have been watching the construction on this bridge and screaming to myself that they should just be doing all the work for blue line so its good to see someone else thinking ahead
by COLSLAW5
February 3rd, 2025, 10:32 am
Forum: Updates - Announcements - Problems - Suggestions
Topic: Forum Maintenance & Technical Issues
Replies: 403
Views: 192623

Re: Forum Maintenance & Technical Issues

Not sure if it is a me thing but the browser icon on the tab is not showing for me anymore. Just showing the generic globe on chrome
by COLSLAW5
January 31st, 2025, 3:44 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
Replies: 1832
Views: 1549248

Re: Bicycle Infrastructure

Also went by the bike path between Hiawatha and Nokomis the other day. I didn't realize their planned infrastructure upgrades were actually happening. The path is already moved and the piers are poured for the new bridge across the creek.

https://www.minneapolisparks.org/park-care-improvements ...