urbanMSP

Excellent points. One could argue that Roe wasn't judicial policy-making, but rather an articulation of constitutional policy / rights that were always implicitly present but not yet "discovered". When viewed in that way, I think this problem is a symptom of our 230+ year old constitution....

It is pretty funny that you can file a lawsuit and the courts will spend six years on procedural back and forth with laypeople skimming the 500 word articles throughout thinking that they are addressing whether or not the thing is good or bad. Agree - a little civic literacy would be nice. Elected ...

Nice to see that Northstar has now surpassed (checks notes) vanpool to be the second least used transit mode in the metro.

It seems like eventually all intercity service to the Twin Cities should stop at both TFS and SPUD. To go from SPUD to TFS (or vice versa), you have to back in/out of both stations, so it actually seems to work out operationally, since trains would always be facing the "right way" after ar...

I believe the annual ridership estimate for Borealis was 100k+, so some napkin math (100k divided by 365 days per year divided by two trips per day [one each way]) gets you to something like 130 expected passengers per trip. Combined with the Empire Builder trips, and that's an expectation of severa...

(Do people have a legitimate problem with CityNerd? Or is it just a taste thing? His voice is a bit grating to my tastes, but I enjoy his content.)

Obviously that church playground was generating an unacceptable amount of traffic - good riddance! /s

Yes, only two lines, but ~52 miles once both extensions are complete, which (according to Wikipedia) is comparable to Denver's LRT system which has 8 lines. If we really wanted to, we could claim 4 lines once the extensions are open by running an EP to MOA service plus Brooklyn Center to St Paul ser...

So would the Blue Line extension be grandfathered in, or would the Hennepin County funding (presumably with the transit sales tax dollar) be required to change, along with handing off the whole project to MnDot?

Do you reckon there are any lane centerlines / offramps / curbs that are 7 inches off of their design specs in the 35W south Minneapolis rebuild? I daresay you could probably find one or two spots like that. I leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine which piece of infrastructure will have...

What effect would this have on the Blue Line extension? I can't recall how that project is currently proposed to be funded, but this feels like a significant mid-stream change in both the planning and funding of the line.

This is the second LRT article in a few weeks with a sensationalized headline, in which actual experts or project managers literally say "it's not a problem", "there's no concern", but continues to just credulously quote and both-sides the NIMBYs.

I have read that the St Anthony bridge (35W) was designed to be "LRT-ready", and your map obviously takes advantage of that, but I've always wondered what that actually means. Like one lane in each direction could handle the weight of LRT vehicles and rails?

I know, imagine the horror of having 6-unit apartment buildings intermixed with single-family homes.

Absolutely right - it's all predicated on the assumption that infrastructure has been built *just so* and no further, and any changes (even the small, incremental changes which the bill would have encouraged) will cause it all to hit a tipping point. Never mind that most of the municipalities in gre...

Virtually no project of any kind gets done in most of greater Minnesota without the city providing financial assistance through grants, waiver of fees, tax increment financing, or tax abatement. This quote astonishes me. I don't even know how true it is, but the statement at its face is an admissio...

I read the data slightly different than you, but I still draw most of the same conclusions. I wouldn't say C Line has "no pattern" - it appears to be following the same "January dip" pattern as most of the lines, albeit with a higher amplitude than the others. I also wouldn't say...

Found the area plan: Study, land use concept