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This one could end up being a political mess… park board tends to want to make everything by the river a park. A lot of the Saint Anthony West neighborhood is suburban style development with a strong nimby faction. Currently designated as corridor 4 in the zoning but I think ideally would be 6+ (imo ...

This one could end up being a political mess… park board tends to want to make everything by the river a park. A lot of the Saint Anthony West neighborhood is suburban style development with a strong nimby faction. Currently designated as corridor 4 in the zoning but I think ideally would be 6+ (imo ...

The only concern I see with this design is that seems to hide the station a little too well between the two road bridges. Maybe not the best design as far as public safety / "eyes on the platform", but really good on all other fronts. I suspect this design will stick.

Revisiting these images ...

Haven't really thought about this until now, but the turns to/from Snelling to get between Marshall and Selby are likely going to be a big driver of delays on the B Line when it opens next month. Before the system restructure for the Blue Line opening in 2004, the 21 used Marshall to Fairview to ...

Seven Points redevelopment is back from the dead. Scaled down, but better than nothing. https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2025/04/30/seven-points-development-update-uptown-minneapolis.html
I can’t see the whole article behind the paywall, would this replace just the former cb2 and ...

Anyone know how close Metro Transit is to bringing back 10 minute frequency for light rail? I was hoping we would have that by now, especially with the additional transit funding.


Well, considering a large chunk of that extra funding is on the chopping block, 10-minute frequencies may be a ...

Anyone know how close Metro Transit is to bringing back 10 minute frequency for light rail? I was hoping we would have that by now, especially with the additional transit funding.

mattaudio wrote:When Northstar was once just a dream, 25 years ago: https://www.pbs.org/video/commuter-rail-13905/

Description: Minnesota is scheduled to run trains from St. Cloud to the Twin Cities in 2004

I have to disagree with people saying there aren’t very many good options here. There isn’t a rule saying that all good transit lines must be X miles apart from each other. In fact, having multiple services available is necessary for building truly transit oriented communities. For example, don’t ...

I'm curious, which are our streetcar suburbs?
Main suburbs that were at least partially developed during the streetcar era: St Louis Park, Hopkins, Robbinsdale, Columbia Heights, Minnetonka, Deephaven, Excelsior. Other parts of Lake Minnetonka were served by ferries.

On the east side, south ...

I have this growing feeling that after the road construction is done and both the B *AND* E lines run right through its heart that Uptown is going to see a revival. The streetscape improvements are making it much nicer of a walking environment, and the urban amenities are just too good to be in a ...

This discussion reminds me of this article from last year:

https://www.minnpost.com/cityscape/2024 ... -the-best/

I wonder if anyone is actually planning on following this plan

NHL franchise playing in your city is worth a whole lot more than one 20 story building next to a light rail station

Been a hot streak for downtown Minneapolis news lately. Paywalled article from MSPBJ about how Hempel will be opening a food hall on the ground floor of the Lasalle Building, occupying the space that used to be filled by the Rock Bottom Brewery.

https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2025/03 ...

So, first day impressions, at least for me, were very positive. The infrastructure was really smooth running and pretty quick (the 35 minute runtime goes fast). Those flyovers were really impressive to ride over. I especially liked the stations. Nice, roomy shelters with good visibility to prevent ...

The initial 17 potential candidate corridors for the J, K, and L lines have been identified! You can subscribe to the newsletter and leave a comment on the interactive map now.

1. 38th Street / Excelsior
2. 46th Street
3. 63rd Avenue / Zane
4. 66th Street
5. Bloomington / Lyndale
6. Broadway
7 ...

I will chime in with my own baseless prediction: gold line will struggle to break 1000 daily riders in 2025. Downtown Saint Paul has much less pull than Minneapolis, and the orange line will probably start to break 2000 for the first time this summer.

I am optimistic that it will outperform the ...

Curious what the risk is of the Mpls extension being successful, but the entire service getting lower frequencies due to low ridership. IMO this is why it might not hurt to have an overlay branding for the downtown to downtown segment. That way a future Purple Line or even an ABRT line could pick ...

Gold Line now shows up on Pantograph. It looks like the weekend schedule is every 15 minutes (with steep morning and evening cutoffs), and every 10 minutes on weekdays. Good to see that they can start off with such a robust schedule, hopefully ridership warrants it!
I have trouble imagining it ...

Very interesting! One thing that stands out is the A line not cracking the top 10 in either year. And the orange line too but that isn’t a surprise. Also interesting to see how much the 6 dropped in the rankings, maybe because the corridor is wealthier/more 9-5 commute based than many other local ...