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by COLSLAW5
March 15th, 2024, 12:22 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: North Loop Neighborhood
Replies: 1096
Views: 486191

Re: North Loop Neighborhood

Barcelona wine bar looks to be opening this summer in the Duffy lofts retail space based on city permits

https://barcelonawinebar.com/

The cuisine is clean and rustic, with tapas shaped by Mediterranean, Spanish, and South American influences. Nearly 400 wines are featured on the wine list.
by COLSLAW5
February 24th, 2024, 9:34 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Replies: 1194
Views: 545827

Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar

Damn I think that this is honestly a really hard call. On one hand aBRT is much cheaper and provides a marginally faster service and likely would be implemented much sooner. But on the other a Street Car has the better potential draw people from from the airport to take transit especially since it c...
by COLSLAW5
February 16th, 2024, 7:49 am
Forum: Suburbs
Topic: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development
Replies: 219
Views: 84610

Re: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development

Does anyone know what the plan for long meadow circle down there was? It looks like a company bought up and tore down a bunch of single family homes then never did anything with it
by COLSLAW5
February 16th, 2024, 7:48 am
Forum: Local Politics and Governance
Topic: Metropolitan Council
Replies: 178
Views: 56247

Re: Metropolitan Council

Man could you imagine a more cohesive super region. more equal transportation network, more spread out response to low income housing. Maybe even being able to equitably spread out school funding across the entire region.

Obviously bigger isn't always better for bureaucracies but it could be cool
by COLSLAW5
February 9th, 2024, 7:05 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Transit Crime
Replies: 280
Views: 999908

Re: Transit Crime

They already do staff cleaning crews at Target field for the trains, I believe they are trying to add more to Mall of america and union depot. Lake street light rail and brt stations each have a mostly permanent staff during the week. other than that they have 30 or so people that drive around the s...
by COLSLAW5
January 12th, 2024, 3:03 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)
Replies: 733
Views: 337579

Re: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)

Why is this still being billed at a colored metro line. This seems more in line with our lettered BRT. It hardly looks like its getting dedicated lanes where it matters most.
by COLSLAW5
January 10th, 2024, 11:26 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Replies: 5248
Views: 1220768

Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT

yea other than the riverview corridor and Blue line I think we will only see and hear about BRT build out for the next 15 years.
by COLSLAW5
December 6th, 2023, 12:21 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: North Loop Neighborhood
Replies: 1096
Views: 486191

Re: North Loop Neighborhood

I'm curious if this will be redeveloped or will have to be taken for the Blue Line Extension. Either way it is an ugly car centric building and happy to see it go. on current plans for the blue line it show the building needing to be demolished so i would assume they will be looking to buy it hopef...
by COLSLAW5
November 30th, 2023, 3:03 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Replies: 1194
Views: 545827

Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar

is the plan to use the Green line O & M for this project?
by COLSLAW5
October 31st, 2023, 7:44 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
Replies: 718
Views: 212608

Re: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit

It will be interesting to see how the changes in uptown go next year too with the addition of bus lanes and a short bike lane addition too
by COLSLAW5
October 30th, 2023, 11:43 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
Replies: 718
Views: 212608

Re: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit

yes we should get the B, E and Gold line all launching in 2025. They had to push the opening due to delays on getting the additional road work completed in the area
by COLSLAW5
October 20th, 2023, 7:27 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Fare-Free Transit
Replies: 24
Views: 39534

Re: Fare-Free Transit

If equity is the reasoning then we should just expand the reduced fare program. I feel like handing out free bus passes to everyone in the 7 county area under a certain household income would be a good option as well before going all fare free
by COLSLAW5
October 6th, 2023, 1:12 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
Topic: Nicollet-Lake - greater Kmart area
Replies: 486
Views: 303238

Re: Nicollet-Lake - greater Kmart area

Looks like they plan to have the site fully demolished by the end of next May. Everything goes except the fence around the site and the parking lot surface
by COLSLAW5
October 5th, 2023, 10:04 am
Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
Topic: Nicollet-Lake - greater Kmart area
Replies: 486
Views: 303238

Re: Nicollet-Lake - greater Kmart area

If that diagonal path were well programmed, it could be a fantastic experience. If it's not, it will be an unpleasant and dangerous feeling space.

We don't have a great track record on things like this, I'm afraid.
what are you referring to?
by COLSLAW5
October 5th, 2023, 6:06 am
Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
Topic: Nicollet-Lake - greater Kmart area
Replies: 486
Views: 303238

Re: Nicollet-Lake - greater Kmart area

New Nicollet Redevelopment Survey - Phase II, Part 2 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NewNicolletPart2 New survey on the options for Nicollet ave kmart reconstruction personally I think concept C and a transit mall would be the best option. The diagonal path would do a good job connecting 1st and blai...
by COLSLAW5
October 4th, 2023, 12:23 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Replies: 1372
Views: 590216

Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects

I have always thought someone should take a similar dollar value worth of MnDot projects and compare cost and time overruns on those with transit projects. Just off the top of my head you have the Third Ave bridge and the 35w Storm water tanks that are 1 year plus over schedule and who knows how muc...
by COLSLAW5
October 3rd, 2023, 6:43 am
Forum: Cities Around the World
Topic: Salt Lake City
Replies: 9
Views: 9536

Re: Salt Lake City

I was just looking at their light rail system and was floored to learn they actually share track with a local freight company. Not really sure how that works, does anyone here have any experience with that?
by COLSLAW5
September 29th, 2023, 12:50 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: HERC - Hennepin Energy Recovery Center
Replies: 33
Views: 69536

Re: HERC - Hennepin Energy Recovery Center

The U of M one runs on natural gas but Center Point wouldn't upgrade their pipe size so they get curtailed to diesel on high demand days. They also have a small coal fired one left as well but it doesn't get used as much anymore
by COLSLAW5
September 22nd, 2023, 6:22 am
Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
Topic: Buzza Lofts of Uptown
Replies: 106
Views: 91059

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

don't know what they are doing but that tunnel was there the trains would come off the main line and supply the buzza warehouse.
by COLSLAW5
September 5th, 2023, 6:28 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
Replies: 1800
Views: 1002405

Re: Bicycle Infrastructure

I think the most needed part is providing another layer of security to the rack like putting it inside a locked fence with obvious surveillance.