urbanMSP

I biked this from Opus all the way back to lake street station yesterday and I have to agree. The level of development and planning that has gone in around the stations is impressive. I was really liking the wayfinding signs, I really feel like signage is something that can always be improved and he...

its more than a few I think they are up to 7 which is wild because its normally from expansion and contraction from really cold weather which we havent really had.

Interesting little takeaways I didn't consider before is one of the reasons LRT is much more expensive is that there's not many construction firms who specialize in building out LRT where for better or worse I'm sure there's serval dozen companies in the state alone who have been fine tunning road ...

looking at the design plans and property lines it looks like EP owns the road along side Emmerson. Im wondering if they want to eventually build the street between singletree and technology drive There was also supposed to be a sidewalk connection at the end of the cul de sac toward the bowlero that...

Anyone know why the sidewalk on the north side of the new 21st bridge looks like it's about 30 feet wide, plus a painted median? I'm all for comfortable sidewalks, but this looks a little, uh, generous for the context. Couldn't we save a lot of money with a more narrow bridge? Im wondering/assuming...

holy wow looks like they have done a lot of good work in minneapolis to improve the pedestrian and bike environment. It even looks like they got rid of on street parking along N washington Ave. I hope they finish it off by including a good landscape design with lots of trees. Main thing I saw was th...

looks like the 25' comes from a federal railway workplace safety. Anything under 25 feet gets put into a different category for worker protection rules

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/s ... I/part-214

old timey cameras

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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.

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.

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...

is the plan to use the Green line O & M for this project?

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

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

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