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I'm glad you said "if necessary", because I'm sure we could all come up with better ways to spend ~$800 million of state transit dollars than a leisure train going to Duluth a few times a day. If it's one vs. the other, I'd spend that money on improving urban public transit service (not just in the ...

Does anyone have any insider info on the decision to cancel the 21 and bring back the 27 instead?

The plan all along had been to run the 21 between Uptown and Minnehaha and that was still the case in the Network Now draft. In the final version of Network Now they pivoted to cancel the 21 and bring ...

This update is a couple months old now, but they chose a new design for Lowry Station: https://metrocouncil.org/News-Events/Transportation/Newsletters/Design-change-approved-for-Lowry-Station.aspx

The new design not only avoids any at-grade crossings of tracks and streets, it also completely ...

I've experienced that issue on iPhone with Safari browser. 'Remember me' doesn't seem to work. Desktop with Chrome browser has no issues staying logged in.

The entire 3rd floor of Gaviidae Common can be yours for just $2.6 million: https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/651-Nic ... /31643272/

Edit: yep, it's the former offices of United Properties.

That's a good bill and I hope it passes, even if watered down from the current text. If there's overwhelming opposition to allowing duplexes on every lot, they should drop that portion and still pass the bill. IMO the minimum lot size piece is the most important part of this bill when it comes to ...

In the TCMC study that resulted in the Borealis service, IIRC they studied using the Fridley Station (as well as St. Cloud) as a potential terminal if the route extended west of SPUD. Fridley makes a lot of sense based on easy highway access for the entire north & northwest metro area and a large ...

I live a block away from here and use the 45th St entrance when I ride. After a conversation I had with a Metro Transit rep a couple weeks ago, I'm not too worried about that access closure actually happening. Definitely staying tuned to the situation though, just in case pushback is needed. I ...

With ample opportunities to transfer to LRT or other BRT, ideally yeah I would want this hypothetical Cedar-Johnson route to skirt downtown. A northbound Cedar BRT rider wanting to go downtown could hop off and get on the Blue Line at Franklin (bit of a walk), or Green Line, H Line, or 22 at West ...

Get your comments in by Friday April 25: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MNORGMETC/bulletins/3dca591

Nicollet is obviously a slam dunk pick. However I think it should go "somewhere" and not just dead-end/turnaround at American & 2nd Ave.

It's hard to not pick Johnson-Lyndale too since ...

Improvements to crosswalks at Hiawatha & 46th and a new signalized pedestrian crossing at 45th: https://www.dot.state.mn.us/metro/projects/hiawathaavempls/


Meeting tonight at Nokomis Community Center, 5-7pm. No formal presentation, so I think it's one where you can just drop in, look at the ...

For those that haven't been thinking about how to rework this area for a decade or more, we have an old thread with links and maps (both fantasy and from an actual study): https://urbanmsp.com/viewtopic.php?t=466

Even with the shift in the vision for Shepard Rd (parkway, not highway), it still ...

Sounds like they are trying to keep up with the Quad Cities River Bandits: https://www.milb.com/news/gcs-101040800

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 ...

I went to the first public meeting tonight. Learned a couple things not apparent from the project website.

This project would actually replace MnDOT’s planned project which was just a “mill & overlay plus” and not a full reconstruction. That does lengthen the timeline by a few years but ...

Bill to change the definition of “blight” include “vacant or underused properties”.
https://finance-commerce.com/2025/04/minnesota-office-to-residential-conversion-bill/ (unlocked)


As these bills are being discussed to create additional incentives for conversion, I'd urge the legislature to be ...

Some new additions to the project site since the announcement 3 weeks ago. Meetings are coming up next week.

1. Interactive map to post comments: https://app.publiccoordinate.com/#/projects/West7/map?point-categories=0a7f1270-a0fe-ef11-90cb-000d3a634eba

2. PDF map showing potential bus lane ...

What's interesting is closing and redeveloping HERC could be the shared interest that binds urban environmentalist progressives and rich sports team owners/Chamber of Commerce booster/Rybak-Frey types.


Yeah I agree that tying the arena approval to the closure of HERC might be the only way to ...

Without getting into the minutiae of MN liquor laws, it likely has to do with who holds the liquor license and whether that same entity also owns/operates the restaurant(s) directly. If the business entity owning/operating the food hall holds the liquor license but doesn't operate any of the ...

Improvements to crosswalks at Hiawatha & 46th and a new signalized pedestrian crossing at 45th: https://www.dot.state.mn.us/metro/proje ... haavempls/