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Poor Dayton’s . Sounds promising though!

If they have to do something in the suburbs, Excelsior out to Hopkins would be nice, but combining it with the 23 rather than going downtown seems weird. There are a lot of apartments and destinations along Excelsior and the surrounding land is mostly on a grid and infillable. I was taking the 612 a ...

I had crazy people acting erratically on my train cars at both 4:00 PM and 8:30 PM today. After a while it's really started to make me feel like I'm the one losing my mind.

Thank you for driving the train.

https://www.startribune.com/will-the-ne ... /601232770

Reading this article feels like taking a time machine back to 2015, which now that I think about it, I would like to do, so good for them.

I noticed this morning that there does appear to be an orange placard on the front door.

I had heard (barber gossip) that there had been an offer to do just that

I think it looks nice. I hope they get something interesting on the street level soon.

It might be fun to take bets on what Gold Line ridership will be.

Febuary

You know, actually—how are downtowns doing in other countries? Hard to compare downtown Minneapolis to a nice Western European city center for 1,000,000 reasons but what about Calgary or whatever? Are Perth and Riyadh back to their regular Monday lunch rush? Can you get a skyscraper for 97% off in a ...

Silophant wrote: January 28th, 2025, 9:03 pm a good reality check from the Bluesky consensus

So no one's really learning any lessons from the past decade, huh?

A good rule is that you always want to be on the opposite side of whoever is using the term “one size fits all” pejoratively.

I feel like some of the underlying assumptions on this kind of thing don’t always make sense. Is a freeway armpit apartment building with a surface parking lot and water retention pond 30 miles from downtown better than five houses? Ideally, less people would be living that far out, which the five ...

https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-how-we-need-now-a-capacity-agenda-for-2025/

I thought this report was a pretty good read, and relevant to many of the things that people on here are interested in, e.g. train costing five times as much in the United States vs. Europe while taking five times as ...

Propping up the grad school industrial complex is in many peoples’ best interest, even if very indirectly. You too could someday be producing lucrative studies no one reads!

I…er…is that a bot?

Yeah—instead of having the dumpo temporary fencing around the Government Plaza water feature for five months maybe you can just turn it into an actual ice rink? Not much walk up retail/restaurant potential around that block, though.

There was no "other side" because no one wanted to point out what direction the wind blows. Minnesotans!

I'm also deeply skeptical that Democrats would have performed better in the world where our local elected officials routinely told activists "the thing you're concerned about is stupid."


I think it's extremely clear that this would have, in fact, helped. There were double digit swings towards ...

It's likely my own broken brain that is making me type this out on the computer, but the HERC situation came to mind for me as a good, relatively low-stakes example of the governance problems common across the blue states. It's an issue where everyone involved knows what they're doing is stupid, but ...