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by DThompson
July 16th, 2020, 10:53 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Replies: 5265
Views: 1247074

Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)

For those with long commutes, the drive is worth it for one of 4 things typically: the pay of the job, the size of the house they have, the amount of land they have, or the location of the land. Driving further to have land in the country with a decent size house on it is worth it for some. I’d add...
by DThompson
July 14th, 2020, 11:33 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Replies: 5265
Views: 1247074

Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)

^^^ I think that's really the gist of it. I can see someone from Eden Prairie taking the Green Line once in a while to a Wild game. I don't see a lot of people taking it to their job in downtown St. Paul because you would have had to have been a masochist to live in Eden Prairie and take a job in S...
by DThompson
July 10th, 2019, 2:13 pm
Forum: Saint Paul
Topic: Saint Paul - General Topics
Replies: 694
Views: 385618

Re: Saint Paul - General Topics

Developers plan 450+ apartments at Luther Seminary site in St. Anthony Park

https://www.twincities.com/2019/07/10/d ... hony-park/
by DThompson
June 13th, 2019, 7:07 am
Forum: Suburbs
Topic: Stillwater Development News
Replies: 50
Views: 27295

Re: Stillwater Development News

Stillwater is nuts. I have never had to park further than three blocks from the main street. I used to go a lot in the middle of the summer and would park at the post office which is .2 miles from main street and there was never anyone parked there.

Does anyone even use the parking ramp?
by DThompson
June 12th, 2019, 1:28 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Replies: 2909
Views: 701608

Re: Public Transit News and Current Happenings

Metro Transit ridership falls 7% during first quarter

http://www.startribune.com/metro-transi ... 511185882/
by DThompson
June 6th, 2019, 1:36 pm
Forum: Saint Paul
Topic: The Heights - former Hillcrest golf course
Replies: 25
Views: 23000

Re: Hillcrest golf course redevelopment site

Isn't it technically zoned Urban Neighborhood? According to the 2040 plan that is pretty broad. "Urban Neighborhoods are primarily residential areas with a range of housing types. Single-family homes and duplexes are most common, although multi-family housing predominates along arterial and col...
by DThompson
September 19th, 2018, 11:31 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Bike Share
Replies: 336
Views: 74168

Re: Bike Share

We already have a system of fixed location bike stations. The point of dockless, with enough bikes, is they can be pretty much everywhere. Hubs only stand in the way of them actually working like that.
I guess I am just more in favor of expanding hub locations.
by DThompson
September 19th, 2018, 10:08 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Bike Share
Replies: 336
Views: 74168

Re: Bike Share

As for finding a bike if there's no hub, you need to use the app anyway, which will tell you where the bikes are, and the presence off a hub doesn't mean there will be bikes there (there were none at the 46th St Station this morning and one at the hub at 21st and Bloomington last night). A hub does...
by DThompson
September 19th, 2018, 7:52 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Bike Share
Replies: 336
Views: 74168

Re: Bike Share

According to the map, it doesn’t look like people are parking them in the hubs. I still don’t fully understand the idea of the hum. In my opinion, I feel like it contradicts the whole idea of dockless share. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I guess the idea of the hub is it's cheap to create a hu...