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- March 3rd, 2021, 1:38 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Hennepin Avenue Reconstruction (Douglas to Lake St)
- Replies: 272
- Views: 18404
Re: Hennepin Avenue Reconstruction (Douglas to Lake St)
I really dislike Minneapolis' recent love affair with two-way bike paths. It can sometimes be justified, but we just reconstructed Hennepin south of Lake with separate bike lanes, so we're forcing a weird two-way maneuver for southbound bikers at one of the busiest intersections in the city! It wou...
- March 3rd, 2021, 11:48 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Calendar
- Replies: 0
- Views: 37
Calendar
Is there anyway that we could have a single place whether it is this forum post or something else integrated into the website with all of the dates and times of various meetings about various projects. That way it would be easier to show support for urbanist projects. Right now usually I find out a ...
- March 3rd, 2021, 11:38 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Embarrassing Confessions of Urbanists
- Replies: 328
- Views: 39825
Re: Embarrassing Confessions of Urbanists
I'm a instacart driver and love it even though I know that I'm driving so many miles and adding to the congestion in the area and that instacart should be a union. I've worked a lot of terrible jobs and the ability to work when I want to is so freeing plus since my car is a beater I usually make abo...
- March 3rd, 2021, 11:28 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2455
- Views: 300911
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
I think that using electric buses on some routes (especially shorter ones or aBRT) is a good idea but we should wait until the product advances before transitioning the majority of the fleet to electric. Buses are not cheap and if the technology is not there then we will just have to buy new ones so...
- March 3rd, 2021, 11:18 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Hennepin Avenue Reconstruction (Douglas to Lake St)
- Replies: 272
- Views: 18404
Re: Hennepin Avenue Reconstruction (Douglas to Lake St)
I was skeptical of how they would fit in bike lanes while still keeping the corridor able to do it all needs to do with the right of way constraints but I have to say I'm impressed with how Option 1 manages to do that. If people have a problem with the biking in the cycle track (I know some do) I th...
- March 2nd, 2021, 1:25 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
- Replies: 643
- Views: 67415
Re: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
Here's the final report on the Midtown Corridor study from 2014: https://www.metrotransit.org/Data/Sites/1/media/midtown-corridor/midtown-corridor-final-report-low-res.pdf For light rail/streetcar on the Greenway, they assume it would be single car LRV or modern streetcar that's approximately 94 fe...
- March 1st, 2021, 11:31 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
- Replies: 643
- Views: 67415
Re: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
I wonder if the Midtown Greenway Coalition and/or other neighborhood groups would demand trains run on batteries instead of overhead wires. Since they really want to preserve the character of the corridor wouldn't overhead wires impact that? Especially as the Greenway is extended into st Paul I hop...
- March 1st, 2021, 11:13 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
- Replies: 643
- Views: 67415
Re: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
I think the length of single track sections also matter. Like for example if single track was just required for a quarter mile that doesn't require much coordination to work around and if it saves significant money then that would be worth it. I think as long as this can still support 8-10 trains pe...
- February 28th, 2021, 10:47 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
- Replies: 643
- Views: 67415
Re: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
Where is the line drawn between fantasy and reality? I don't agree with Trademark's idea but it's within the realm of possibility. However, considering the "experts" ignored designing the Green Line Extension in a way to easily allow interlining with Midtown LRT at West Lake, then it leads me to be...
- February 28th, 2021, 10:22 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
- Replies: 643
- Views: 67415
Re: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
Where is the line drawn between fantasy and reality? I don't agree with Trademark's idea but it's within the realm of possibility. However, considering the "experts" ignored designing the Green Line Extension in a way to easily allow interlining with Midtown LRT at West Lake, then it leads me to be...
- February 28th, 2021, 12:34 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
- Replies: 643
- Views: 67415
Re: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
I might've said this already on here, but in my (potentially unpopular) opinion the Greenway should be BRT. There is no way to interline a Greenway LRT with the Green Line Extension at West Lake due to the tunnel, and on the east end the only alignment being considered (that I know of) are trains g...
- February 28th, 2021, 12:26 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
- Replies: 643
- Views: 67415
Re: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
Sorry to sidetrack here but in a nutshell was there a reason to keep this on Marshall as opposed to turning at Cretin and running through St. Paul on Grand? Is there a different plan for Grand? Or just trying to keep the route as simple as possible? In a perfect world I agree with you on summit. Bu...
- February 27th, 2021, 11:02 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
- Replies: 643
- Views: 67415
Re: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
Sorry to sidetrack here but in a nutshell was there a reason to keep this on Marshall as opposed to turning at Cretin and running through St. Paul on Grand? Is there a different plan for Grand? Or just trying to keep the route as simple as possible? That's where I think Greenway rail should extend ...
- February 21st, 2021, 3:34 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Nicollet-Central Streetcar
- Replies: 895
- Views: 101417
Re: Nicollet-Central Streetcar
You actually the more I think about it the more I like the idea of a streetcar. With Central and Nicollet not being one connected bus line having a streetcar that gets the bulk of the urban neighborhoods just outside of downtown would be convenient. Sure I’m late to the band wagon, likely right bef...
- February 18th, 2021, 11:35 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Orange Line / 35W@94: Downtown to Crosstown Project
- Replies: 850
- Views: 108482
Re: Orange Line / 35W@94: Downtown to Crosstown Project
Because the Mall of America is a big destination from Richfield. And they are trying to keep the 515 high frequency. If people are going to the VA they can catch the blue line from moa. But that area of Minneapolis just isn't a huge draw. I'm curious what the ridership numbers are for route 515. Lo...
- February 16th, 2021, 2:56 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Orange Line / 35W@94: Downtown to Crosstown Project
- Replies: 850
- Views: 108482
Re: Orange Line / 35W@94: Downtown to Crosstown Project
The reasoning stated in the presentation behind abandoning the 515 branch to the VA and the branch down Longfellow Ave is to serve Bloomington Ave south of 66th. What I don't understand is why not extend route 14 instead since it is already on Bloomington Ave and ends at 66th? Then they wouldn't ab...
- February 13th, 2021, 1:05 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bottineau LRT (Blue Line Extension)
- Replies: 1263
- Views: 152843
Re: Bottineau LRT (Blue Line Extension)
I very much lean towards constructing a tunnel under W. Broadway because it will speed up service and leave room to redesign the corridor. The street needs to become far less car dominated with traffic calming, wider sidewalks, and tree-line boulevards/ streetscape in order to improve access to the...
- February 12th, 2021, 12:53 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bottineau LRT (Blue Line Extension)
- Replies: 1263
- Views: 152843
Re: Bottineau LRT (Blue Line Extension)
Still haven't seen a layout for putting dedicated guideway LRT on an 80' street that wouldn't be deeply awful for pedestrians, transit, or both. Are we just going to reprise the discussion from a couple months ago about Houston? Is this ideal? No. Is it workable? Yes. "Deeply awful" overstates the ...
- February 11th, 2021, 8:51 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bottineau LRT (Blue Line Extension)
- Replies: 1263
- Views: 152843
Re: Bottineau LRT (Blue Line Extension)
That is great to hear! When is the next one? I wish they had a calendar on streets.mn with all urbanist relevant political meetings that could be attended. If we could get the streets.mn and urban.msp followers mobilized more effectively there is a lot of difference that could be made.
- February 11th, 2021, 8:49 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)
- Replies: 4660
- Views: 458663
Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)
I've been driving thru areas of construction on this route a lot and I really think overall this is going to be a jewel of a project. Correct me if I'm wrong but I can't think of a singlw point in the route where the train has to stop for anyone. It uses right of ways very well to keep speed high an...