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- March 23rd, 2023, 1:12 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1015642
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
There was a Blue Line Extension meeting yesterday at the Capri Theater. As you can see in the materials posted the last page (accessible here ) have basically refined two alternatives for the North/South segment north of Target Field and Broadway and four alternatives for the East/West segment east ...
- March 23rd, 2023, 9:03 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: North Loop Neighborhood
- Replies: 1096
- Views: 520273
Re: North Loop Neighborhood
So much for a small format grocery store in the Duffey 2.0 project, the 20k SF retail space in the new building will be a drinks and minigolf place . Do we have a term for these types of businesses? Similar to Pinstripes and all the axe throwing places. Maybe "adult arcade"? They're fun an...
- March 14th, 2023, 4:30 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
- Replies: 1404
- Views: 642444
Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Without annotation of those road widths, it's a bit hard to understand how they can do sidewalks and bikeways on Segment 4 and not on Segment 2, despite both having the same effective width (and Segment 4 even having a narrower legal width). I am guessing they are planning on taking more of the lega...
- March 14th, 2023, 4:20 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1015642
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Right, but the reason they are giving the "East of 94" option a hard look, despite the increased time and significantly increased cost, is because of opposition to the train on Lyndale N.
- March 14th, 2023, 3:01 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1015642
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
The Met Council's unwillingness to use grade separation to improve operations is definitely a source of ongoing frustration, especially when contrasted with their seeming eagerness to use grade separation to placate small localized opposition. But also, these are complex projects, the Bottineau LRT ...
- March 14th, 2023, 2:46 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Northstar Commuter Rail
- Replies: 952
- Views: 245340
Re: Northstar Commuter Rail
I sort of have a romantic idyll of trains to St. Cloud, Duluth, Winona, etc. (Rochester someday?) having more locally focused branding. I've always liked the livery of the Northstar trains and hoped the Northern Lights Express trains would have a design with a similar motif, but perhaps different co...
- March 7th, 2023, 11:28 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
- Replies: 1803
- Views: 1081771
Re: Bicycle Infrastructure
We happen to live just a block away from an Evie charger, and it has been very very helpful to get to some destinations (the X for a Wild game for example, where it also saved us the need to fight for parking). But our circumstance is obviously quite ideal for Evie use. It is frustrating that the pr...
- March 7th, 2023, 11:23 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1305856
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Yeah, I do sometimes think that the talk about this project misses how localized the biggest problems are. The three things that caused the price to increase were: adding Eden Prairie Town Center back in (after it was removed to cut costs), adding the crash wall (irritating), and the revisions to th...
- February 22nd, 2023, 11:21 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1305856
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
There are going to be three really low ridership stops on the Mpls portion of the SWLRT, but the Bassett Creek Valley Station and Bryn Mawr Station bug me more than the 21st Street Station for two reasons. First, the 21st Street Station should allow for a useful connection with the #2 bus. Second, I...
- February 20th, 2023, 2:02 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2953
- Views: 749201
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
I've believed for a while that the 38th St corridor is one of the most underrated in the Twin Cities. A while back I did an analysis of boardings for each stop along various corridors , and 38th Street leapt out as the second most efficient corridors per stop, per bus. It should be a route with 10 m...
- February 8th, 2023, 11:00 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Dan Patch Intercity Regional Passenger Rail
- Replies: 181
- Views: 166352
Re: Dan Patch Intercity Regional Passenger Rail
I guess my point is, I don't think Dan Patch is a particularly good route. It's winding, indirect, and has a lot of bad station locations relative to the activity centers you've listed above. It's a weird modal fit, the length of the Blue or Green Line LRT when fully extended, but serving nowhere ne...
- February 8th, 2023, 10:09 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Dan Patch Intercity Regional Passenger Rail
- Replies: 181
- Views: 166352
Re: Dan Patch Intercity Regional Passenger Rail
I get that people have been pining over the Dan Patch line forever, but at this point I'm not sure why it would be prioritized over a route running through Rosemount and Farmington before hitting Northfield (and then onward to Faribault, Owatonna, and Rochester, although either line could hit these ...
- February 1st, 2023, 9:45 am
- Forum: Greater Minnesota
- Topic: Greater Minnesota job market / employment news
- Replies: 24
- Views: 21597
Re: Greater Minnesota job market / employment news
So... anybody know why window makers are concentrating in this area? What's the competitive advantage for this region?
- January 23rd, 2023, 12:00 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1015642
- January 20th, 2023, 3:54 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis LRT Tunnel Discussion
- Replies: 49
- Views: 22963
Downtown Minneapolis LRT Tunnel Discussion
I mentioned this recently on Twitter, but this month the FTA made some substantial revisions to the entry requirements of the Core Capacity CIG program, which (to avoid getting too technical) significantly eased the crowding metrics needed to qualify. It continues to bug me that there hasn't been a ...
- January 20th, 2023, 3:35 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Transit Crime
- Replies: 280
- Views: 1047950
Re: Transit Crime
I had some time to kill last evening, so I hopped on a bunch of trains and rode in each of the cars around downtown Minneapolis, and it was... a lot better? Maybe I just got lucky a bunch of times in a row, and certainly riding around rush hour probably lowered my chances, but there was not a single...
- January 16th, 2023, 1:46 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Northern Lights Express
- Replies: 510
- Views: 526770
Re: Northern Lights Express
Since this looks increasingly realistic, I have some basic questions for people more in the know: - Would this be double tracked the entire way? Or would there be timed passes? Or would there be just a single trainset operating each day, going back and forth? - Assuming it would use diesel locomotiv...
- January 8th, 2023, 10:09 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Park and Portland Avenues
- Replies: 103
- Views: 29667
Re: Park and Portland Avenues
Yeah, it's going to be an improvement. But I've been a bit disappointed that nobody thought to dream a little bigger. What about returning one of the streets to two-way traffic and remaking the other as a greenway and linear park? Instead, the I-35W reconstruction status quo has just gotten baked in...
- January 6th, 2023, 10:11 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Amtrak: Empire Builder and Borealis (TCMC)
- Replies: 631
- Views: 411838
Re: Amtrak Empire Builder and TCMC
I've always felt that the Twin Cities to Rochester boosters have suffered from a bit of tunnel vision. This city pair makes sense a lot more sense as part of a longer route. That could mean a locally focused route serving Rosemount (26.6k), Farmington (23.5k), Northfield (20.7k), Faribault (24.4k), ...
- December 27th, 2022, 5:16 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Retail News
- Replies: 1432
- Views: 512502
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Retail News
I guess my question is; what has prevented these people from stepping to the plate earlier? What advantage or opportunity have they lacked so far that this working group will provide? I'm not saying that this working group will fail; I think they will come up with many suggestions and act on a few o...