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- March 29th, 2024, 7:16 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: City living trends and predictions
- Replies: 133
- Views: 79928
Re: City living trends and predictions
An important difference from a Bearpath mansion is that an Urban Bearpath could someday be relatively easily repurposed into a normal apartment or condo building, whereas a Bearpath McMansion is a Bearpath McMansion forever.
- March 26th, 2024, 10:44 am
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
- Replies: 47
- Views: 30801
Re: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
Chaska has excellent urban form in its downtown (especially after the recent road diet on Chestnut) and Chanhassen has densified somewhat along its weird semi-walkabale-but-mostly-driveable main street, so I'm disappointed to hear it from those two mayors especially. At the end of the day, they fear...
- March 26th, 2024, 8:38 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5265
- Views: 1247584
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Getting back to the substance of the issue here - I could have sworn I read somewhere that the 25' clearance was needed for construction worker safety, which implies it's not an operational requirement. Can anyone verify that statement? Furthermore, it's stated in the article that the 25 foot cleara...
- March 14th, 2024, 11:59 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Uber/Lyft
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2861
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...
- March 7th, 2024, 10:58 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1749
- Views: 976480
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Agreed on the shorter track segments! I really think that the Midtown Greenway is the next logical step for a light rail extension after the SWLRT and Bottineau extensions. They shouldn't have nearly as difficult of a time with securing ROW and the county has left space in the trench for a light ra...
- March 7th, 2024, 10:01 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1194
- Views: 554051
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
One thing that bothers me with this project (and other transit projects) is how the cost of the Highway 5 bridge is being attributed 100% to this project, when in reality only a portion of the bridge reconstruction costs should be rightly attributed to this project. According to MnDot, that bridge (...
- March 7th, 2024, 9:51 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1749
- Views: 976480
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
As someone mentioned upthread, once the extensions are complete, we will be nearing a point where the track infrastructure and the color line designations will be less tied to each other - for example, a new "Silver Line" connection SPUD to Brooklyn Center becomes possible, or an EP to MOA...
- March 5th, 2024, 2:40 pm
- Forum: Greater Minnesota
- Topic: Greater Minnesota job market / employment news
- Replies: 24
- Views: 18188
Re: Greater Minnesota job market / employment news
There have been a number of experiments housed in the lab over the years. Basically, any experiment which requires ultra-low background / shielding from cosmic radiation is a good fit for an underground lab. Natural radioactivity in the rock overburden is then the background signal that you largely ...
- March 1st, 2024, 12:43 pm
- Forum: Greater Minnesota
- Topic: Greater Minnesota job market / employment news
- Replies: 24
- Views: 18188
Re: Greater Minnesota job market / employment news
Time to go read up on extraction techniques for helium. Hope these leases can provide meaningful benefits for all Minnesotans.
And as someone who used to work as a physicist in the Soudan Underground Lab, I can arrest to the acute need for helium in scientific research.
And as someone who used to work as a physicist in the Soudan Underground Lab, I can arrest to the acute need for helium in scientific research.
- February 29th, 2024, 9:28 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1749
- Views: 976480
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
I wish the Mpls to Robbinsdale section could be the "local match", and the extension to Brooklyn Park could be the (second phase) Federal match. That doesn't work in practice, of course, because: Inflation OMF is in the northern section Ridership projections seem to heavily favor park &...
- February 29th, 2024, 8:59 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1749
- Views: 976480
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Inflation is rough. And it sucks that by doing the prudent thing and having more conservative contingencies as a result of the SWLRT issues, this (at a surface level) appears to be feeding right into the "LRT cost overruns" narrative. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
- February 26th, 2024, 8:16 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Embarrassing Confessions of Urbanists
- Replies: 349
- Views: 98469
Re: Embarrassing Confessions of Urbanists
Can relate to this - I grew up in suburbia and had never considered the possibility of car-free living until I started grad school at the U of M. Stepping off the bus on campus that first day, knowing that *I didn't have a car nearby* was honestly terrifying to me. It was like an invisible tether ha...
- February 21st, 2024, 8:12 am
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
- Replies: 47
- Views: 30801
Re: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
Bill looks to supersede residential zoning rules across the state
Pleasantly surprised that this bill has bipartisan support - as it should!
Pleasantly surprised that this bill has bipartisan support - as it should!
- February 20th, 2024, 4:18 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News
- Replies: 227
- Views: 165885
Re: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News
Were all the Rainbows co-branded with Roundy's, or just the one I shopped at? I just remember "Chairman Bob approved" on all the bags.Anyone still old enough to remember rainbow?
- February 20th, 2024, 4:15 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Amtrak: Long-distance trains
- Replies: 5
- Views: 842
Amtrak: Long-distance trains
Don't know if this belongs here or in its own thread, but the FRA has been working on a long-distance passenger rail study and just released a new presentation. https://fralongdistancerailstudy.org/ Link to February 2024 presentation (preferred route map on page 53) I think this is just a list of re...
- February 19th, 2024, 10:43 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News
- Replies: 227
- Views: 165885
Re: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News
Hy-Vees close at 10pm here? I grew up in Hy-Vee country (Sioux Falls to be exact) and those things were open 24/7 except for the major holidays, probably 5 days a year tops. My high school freshman "hazing" involved being taken to Hy-Vee at 3:30am and singing I'm A Little Teapot over the P...
- February 16th, 2024, 11:31 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Northstar Commuter Rail
- Replies: 952
- Views: 222340
Re: Northstar Commuter Rail
For reference, the recently-completed (2022) I-94 expansion project from Maple Grove to Clearwater cost $350M. A separate project to fill in the gap from Albertville to Monticello will cost $101M (starting this summer). Not to say that these Northstar estimates are cheap, but we are spending almost ...
- February 13th, 2024, 9:08 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2909
- Views: 702252
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Wow - if I'm reading that right, LRT + BRT accounts for ~22M rides out of ~48M rides system-wide (~15M LRT, ~7M BRT). aBRT is without a doubt the best bang-for-the-buck investment MT is making right now, and it's not even close. Keep those letter lines coming!
- February 7th, 2024, 8:13 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2909
- Views: 702252
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Hmm, link doesn't seem to work for me.Has anyone seen the former zoo monorail at Sandland?
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYfdid ... f0Nx7ioOYw
- February 7th, 2024, 8:11 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Introductions
- Replies: 161
- Views: 71362
Re: Introductions
Your story is pretty similar to mine - replace "Cities: Skylines" with "SimCity 2000/3000/4", replace "discovering streets.mn" with "discovering Minnescraper", ditto on StrongTowns, and add in "reading Jane Jacobs", and you've got the general contour...