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by UrbanMPLS
March 14th, 2024, 2:24 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Uber/Lyft
Replies: 28
Views: 2704

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

Will Uber and Lyft really leave Minneapolis? Maybe. Here's how it could play out. I don't use Uber/Lyft and don't know anyone who drives for them, so I have the luxury of being a disinterested third party in this. At minimum, if Uber/Lyft withdrew and no other rideshare service replaced them, I'd b...
by UrbanMPLS
March 6th, 2024, 1:38 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Replies: 1749
Views: 976175

Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT

Exactly what twincitizen said. I think Chicago gets this right. This makes the lines identifiable not only be color, but by destination as well. Being consistent with this avoids the need for the signs to say “Blue Line.” Even if someone is color blind, they can know they’re on the right train by th...
by UrbanMPLS
February 9th, 2024, 11:20 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Transit Crime
Replies: 280
Views: 1023657

Re: Transit Crime

Perhaps also roll out some PSAs showing the cleaning crews who have to clean up other people's messes on buses, trains, and stations. Like smoking, it confounds me that so many people just don't care about littering on our taxpayer funded vehicles and stations. When it comes to littering and smokin...
by UrbanMPLS
January 20th, 2024, 11:21 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Replies: 2909
Views: 701245

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

Fare Collection System Upgrade presentation for the upcoming Transportation Committee. https://metrocouncil.org/Council-Meetings/Committees/Transportation-Committee/2024/January-22,-2024/Info-Item-_-Cubic-Upgrade.aspx That’s great news. The ability to pay directly with a debit or credit card remove...
by UrbanMPLS
January 19th, 2024, 1:40 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Transit Crime
Replies: 280
Views: 1023657

Re: Transit Crime

Metro Transit leadership posted some takeaways from their listening tour. While acknowledging a problem is not the same as fixing it, I was pretty impressed by their willingness to be straightforward and admit the current state of the system is unacceptable. It’s also exciting that several talked ab...
by UrbanMPLS
November 30th, 2023, 3:21 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Transit Crime
Replies: 280
Views: 1023657

Re: Transit Crime

While I agree that fare gates are not the answer system wide, they could be implemented where they’re most needed and practical (Lake Street seems like an obvious choice). On a broader transit crime note, I was recently in Paris, London and Amsterdam and was astounded by how clean and orderly their ...
by UrbanMPLS
September 7th, 2023, 2:29 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Better Bus Routes - Metro Transit
Replies: 34
Views: 64933

Re: Better Bus Routes - Metro Transit

This comment could go in the aBRT thread or here, but I wonder if going with lettered rapid lines instead of numbers is going to seem like a good idea long-term, once we're in the middle of the alphabet. Instead of A-K (minus I), the first ten aBRT routes could have been labeled Routes 1-10. Obviou...
by UrbanMPLS
September 6th, 2023, 2:37 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Better Bus Routes - Metro Transit
Replies: 34
Views: 64933

Re: Better Bus Routes - Metro Transit

Yeah, the obsession with killing the downtown hub-and-spoke in favor of a cartesian grid is truly baffling to me. You're benefiting hardly anybody, and hurting lots of people who do want to go downtown (or who would like to make a different connection there). Chicago has a great bus grid, but I thi...
by UrbanMPLS
August 30th, 2023, 2:53 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Replies: 5265
Views: 1246763

Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT

Meant to say September 2013 when talking about the testing at Stadium Village station.
by UrbanMPLS
August 30th, 2023, 10:08 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Replies: 5265
Views: 1246763

Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT

Anyone old enough to remember when the blue and green lines where being built recall roughly how long it took from them being "almost done with construction" to fully open to the public? Not really an answer to your question, but I did some poking around on street view to try and get a ti...
by UrbanMPLS
August 25th, 2023, 8:24 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Replies: 1749
Views: 976175

Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT

Imagine a history where instead of assuming railroads would play nice in swampy low-intensity corridors, we had done elevated driverless automated light metros from the start with 3-4 minute headways regardless of driver shortages. A world where every top 30 metro area in the country tried to copy ...
by UrbanMPLS
March 16th, 2023, 10:59 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Transit Crime
Replies: 280
Views: 1023657

Re: Transit Crime

Here in Chicago, the CTA is paying $31 million for security on trains. So far, it’s pretty universally regarded as a failure. They usually just sit around chatting or looking at their phones. One time I was riding a train with guards sitting across from me and a man lit up a cigarette. I had to poin...
by UrbanMPLS
May 21st, 2020, 3:55 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Replies: 5265
Views: 1246763

Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)

I believe this is what they do in Seattle.
by UrbanMPLS
May 21st, 2020, 1:45 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Replies: 5265
Views: 1246763

Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)

Looks like the first LRT cars for this are being delivered today.
Are these cars identical to the previous Green Line cars?
by UrbanMPLS
March 5th, 2020, 8:28 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
Topic: Nicollet-Lake - greater Kmart area
Replies: 486
Views: 306783

Re: Lake & Nicollet Redevelopment (Kmart site)

I’ve always thought Nicollet-Central would do well as LRT, especially with a tunnel between Lake and Lowry. Medtronic to Southtown, or something like that. So bear with me: is there any chance they’d build a subway station here during this? Seems like if it’s ever going to happen, now would be the t...