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by Nick
April 10th, 2024, 8:53 am
Forum: Suburbs
Topic: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News
Replies: 237
Views: 169451

Re: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News

EP's biggest culinary destination - Asia Mall - is actually pretty close to the Town Center station, at least as the crow flies.
I will unironically go to Asia Mall before 2035, when the train opens. It's actually pretty far away!
by Nick
April 9th, 2024, 11:26 am
Forum: Suburbs
Topic: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News
Replies: 237
Views: 169451

Re: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News

If they're going use TIF, they should at least try to get an Olive Garden or something over there--when the train opens in 2032 I will definitely take it out to the mall once for fun and it looks like Applebee's is currently the best suburban chain option they've got.
by Nick
April 6th, 2024, 5:04 pm
Forum: Local Politics and Governance
Topic: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
Replies: 58
Views: 32914

Re: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature

I would be interested to read some more behind the scenes reporting about why it didn’t work out. Reading between the lines a bit (and there’s something extra annoying about the word salad quotes from electeds on this one) it seems like the opposition was largely coming from the metro suburbs, which...
by Nick
March 25th, 2024, 6:40 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Replies: 5269
Views: 1254034

Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT

It's so wild to have followed this project for two decades and periodically have new political, professional, or computer characters emerge and assure me that, clearly, there's nothing to see here--all is well. It's a huge self-own on my part. Am I still going to be doing this in 2030? Very humbling.
by Nick
March 21st, 2024, 9:05 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Replies: 1392
Views: 609259

Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects

old timey cameras
That’s what I thought but figured that couldn’t be right.
by Nick
March 20th, 2024, 8:50 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Replies: 1392
Views: 609259

Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects

What are inside the red circles with the lines through them?
by Nick
March 14th, 2024, 8:55 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Uber/Lyft
Replies: 34
Views: 3751

Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)

I don't use it very often without a smartphone, but every two or three months with a group we might take a bus somewhere, and then get a car home at 1:30 AM instead of waiting for a bus. If they were to pull out (which seems extremely unlikely--you'd have to think the state will preempt it) probably...
by Nick
March 10th, 2024, 10:51 am
Forum: Suburbs
Topic: Southdale Area - Edina
Replies: 798
Views: 248315

Re: Southdale Area - Edina

If they're trying to inch up market a bit, hopefully someone will think to buy a vacuum for the movie theater.
by Nick
March 3rd, 2024, 12:01 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Replies: 1194
Views: 557641

Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar

I don't even think it's as thought out as politicians wanting to go to a ribbon cutting or spread out money to other side of the metro. It feels like it's more about the expectation that a government of a certain size has an office full of people whose job it is to talk about transit planning stuff....
by Nick
February 29th, 2024, 7:21 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Replies: 1194
Views: 557641

Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar

Ramsey County needs to get some love, so probably.
If I had to pick between this combined with the incoming huge flop of the Gold Line, and a $2.5 billion transit museum in downtown St. Paul, I'd maybe go with the museum. You could put a little train in the food court and ride it around :).
by Nick
February 29th, 2024, 2:54 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Replies: 1194
Views: 557641

Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar

So do any of you guys think this is actually going to happen?
by Nick
February 22nd, 2024, 9:36 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
Replies: 2030
Views: 789397

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics

I regret never going to the Pizza Hut sports bar...
by Nick
February 16th, 2024, 12:58 pm
Forum: Local Politics and Governance
Topic: Metropolitan Council
Replies: 178
Views: 60327

Re: Metropolitan Council

Sure, but how is the opposite of that going?
by Nick
February 16th, 2024, 10:01 am
Forum: Local Politics and Governance
Topic: Metropolitan Council
Replies: 178
Views: 60327

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 I...
by Nick
February 15th, 2024, 11:25 pm
Forum: Local Politics and Governance
Topic: Metropolitan Council
Replies: 178
Views: 60327

Re: Metropolitan Council

My actual best case scenario idea is that every unit of government in the metro area should be rolled into the Met Council, which would then be elected and coherent and understandable to normal people. A little too wacko to suggest, though.
by Nick
February 14th, 2024, 12:57 pm
Forum: Suburbs
Topic: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development
Replies: 219
Views: 87493

Re: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development

Not that I'm the market for it, but I was surprised to see "oh, there's an Oxendale's down here?" out the train window on Saturday.
by Nick
February 6th, 2024, 6:09 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Transit Crime
Replies: 280
Views: 1025368

Re: Transit Crime

Like all crime data, the number is basically made up--I wouldn't worry about the chart. The situation has been steadily improving for about a year, though my personal "days since experiencing a train fiasco" counter is only at five.
by Nick
February 3rd, 2024, 1:31 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Replies: 2921
Views: 710281

Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)

"I don't think that we should let things go unstudied just because nobody has done it," said Bloomington City Manager Jamie Verbrugge, who submitted a letter of support for the study.
Jamie, no!
by Nick
February 1st, 2024, 5:32 pm
Forum: Updates - Announcements - Problems - Suggestions
Topic: Forum Maintenance & Technical Issues
Replies: 385
Views: 128333

Re: Forum Maintenance & Technical Issues

I have once again forgotten to turn off the credit card autopay for our hosting--you all have an eleven month notice that this is going to go away if no one wants it.
by Nick
January 17th, 2024, 8:26 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Northern Lights Express
Replies: 510
Views: 502130

Re: Northern Lights Express

No one at any level of anything is going to get in trouble for it taking five times longer and it costing five times more than it should, but a lot of people will get a piece of the delay and overrun.