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Odd question.. what if the HSR line went faster say 400 MPH and didn't need expensive rails?

No seriously.. What about a RST to STP shuttle flight that was able to let riders get through TSA faster given they are both smaller airports and allow them still reasonable transit from each airport ...

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Is the infrastructure removal in the freight ROW mandated by the original federal funding agreement? IIRC, a lot of those agreements require returning the corridor to its original state if service is ended within some sunset date.

The overall lack of "on the beat" cops in American cities in general - whether on foot, horseback, bike, whatever - is always baffling to me. It also makes hiring officers of all stripes more expensive, because "one cop" actually means "one cop plus a $150k cruiser".

Looking at a few maps, I'd say St Louis Park, Hopkins, Excelsior, White Bear Lake, South St Paul, North St Paul, and Stillwater. And although they are within city limits, most of the outer portions of Minneapolis and St Paul are effectively of a "streetcar suburb" built form, especially South ...

It's a great idea to consider commuter rail to walkable suburbs, but unfortunately many of them haven't preserved the rail ROW adequately. For example, the recent Chestnut St reconstruction in downtown Chaska, while overall a good piece of urbanism, destroyed the historical rail ROW across Chestnut ...

Silophant wrote: April 11th, 2025, 11:43 am Also, that Grocery logo in the renderings is an absolute masterwork of being obviously Aldi while maintaining plausible deniablity about it possibly being any grocery store.

"Grocery"? Kinda old-fashioned word choice, no?

Redevelopment adjacent to the park and ride station in Chanhassen. 325 units, an Aldi, and other retail (plus more parking)

https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2023/07/25/roers-cos-downtown-chanhassen-redevelopment-plan.html


The hotel has been torn down, looks like construction on this ...

MnDOT is interested in turning back West 7th to city or county ownership. It could be that just the portion east of 35E gets turned back or possibly the whole corridor from downtown all the way to the bridge.


Would this involve re-routing MN-5 onto Shepard Rd? This has always felt like such a ...

Minneapolis to Denver is overall a high-demand travel market, and is one of the busiest city pairs for MSP airport, and we should have rail alternatives for it.

There is certainly air travel demand between MSP and DEN, but how much of that is due to their status as air hubs, and how much is due ...

As a native South Dakotan, it's clear this plan was trying to thread a needle of state-wide support by connecting Sioux Falls & Rapid City, the major East River & West River population centers. (And Pierre I guess.) The problem there is that (1) that's a long distance with minimal population centers ...

A transit station tied in to the Lindau pedestrian overpass would have been the obvious choice, but I don't think MoA is/was very interested in prioritizing transit. I think they prefer it to be tucked away out of sight.

I'm hoping this 686 route at least demonstrates corridor demand and can accelerate American Blvd for aBRT consideration. This is actually a very useful route, connecting Green, Orange, Blue and Red lines.

I think 6 cents on the dollar means it lost 94% of its value, not 99.94%. But in any case, I still maintain that the value was lost awhile ago, it's just only being realized now. It is indeed terrible that we're losing such property values, but it's a done thing at this point - optimizing among bad ...

Agree with BoF above. If you take the loss of office demand downtown as a given (which I do), then a private sale at a loss to a creative, local owner is not a bad outcome. No bankruptcy, no foreclosure sale - this is just the market resolving a valuation reset via market mechanisms.

While this isn ...

Wow, way to predict the Cybertruck design years before it was a reality!

Wish there was a schedule or map.

Glad it's 7 days a week, but it looks like they are using repurposed prime minibuses rather than normal transit buses which is kind of disappointing (take a look at the contest page). 45 to 60 minute headways is better than I was expecting to be honest, but I ...

Thanks sdho!

I know I'm probably weird, but... how do I turn it back to light mode?