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by Nick
March 14th, 2024, 8:55 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Uber/Lyft
Replies: 25
Views: 1999

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: 797
Views: 239533

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: 545823

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: 545823

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: 545823

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: 2027
Views: 770764

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: 56247

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: 56247

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: 56247

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: 84609

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: 999886

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: 2909
Views: 692555

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: 122981

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: 504
Views: 476500

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.
by Nick
December 13th, 2023, 11:11 am
Forum: Local Politics and Governance
Topic: Minnesota State Flag and Seal Redeisgn
Replies: 55
Views: 230514

Re: Minnesota State Flag and Seal Redeisgn

That is wild.
by Nick
December 2nd, 2023, 9:37 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Transit Crime
Replies: 280
Views: 999886

Re: Transit Crime

better social safety net, transit not being seen as a place of last resort I wish we could have a conversation around these things instead of having to convince people who never ride transit not to spend all our transit money on useless gates and fences. A majority of the issues with Metro Transit ...
by Nick
November 27th, 2023, 6:17 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Transit Crime
Replies: 280
Views: 999886

Re: Transit Crime

https://www.minnpost.com/cityscape/2023 ... good-idea/

Bill has managed to be the first person in the media to describe how and why the turnstiles are physically not workable. Good work, Bill.
by Nick
November 23rd, 2023, 9:13 am
Forum: Local Politics and Governance
Topic: Minnesota State Flag and Seal Redeisgn
Replies: 55
Views: 230514

Re: Minnesota State Flag and Seal Redeisgn

It’s gotta be the snowflake.
by Nick
November 19th, 2023, 11:58 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Red Line (Cedar Avenue BRT)
Replies: 538
Views: 218594

Re: Red Line (Cedar Avenue BRT)

“If you keep doing things that are a bad idea, it may eventually be a problem”

- Me in 2013

“Shut. Up!”

- everyone in charge of anything in 2013
by Nick
November 6th, 2023, 2:45 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
Topic: New Third Precinct Station
Replies: 12
Views: 37842

Re: New Third Precinct Station

Didn't there used to be one in Uptown next to the McDonald's?