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There was a train derailment on CP's Paynesville Subdivision in Plymouth between I-494 and Northwest Boulevard. Around a dozen cars off the tracks. The locomotives didn't derail and there's no injuries. Not sure how fast they were going. I think max speed on that segment is 40 mph?

You underestimate the amount of people who treat the speed limit as a suggestion and go 10+ over the limit.

https://www.startribune.com/speed-limit ... 600031541/

Just what we need, instead of people speeding at 60 now they're going to be speeding at 70. I've already seen this on Highway 100 since they raised the speed limit through Edina and St. Louis Park.

Would it be beneficial and feasible to have all traffic stop at Hennepin & Lake while pedestrians and bikers are able to freely cross the intersection no matter which direction they're going? I've only experienced it in Santa Monica and it was nice to be able to cross diagonally instead of cross...

Would the bus lanes be used all day, or only during peak time in peak direction and at all other times used for parking?

I've heard nothing but bad things about BYD so my personal opinion is we should just avoid doing business with them. For now it seems like New Flyer is our best bet. Battery technology is always advancing, so hopefully the Met Council and Metro Transit will come around to trying electric buses again...

Have they been using the electric buses on the C Line through the winter? Is it a climate issue, charging issue, both, or something else?

Response from the B Line project team about adding a station at France & Lake: "West Lake Street Station has been proposed as the western endpoint for the B Line because it will create a critical transitway connection following completion of the METRO Green Line Extension and will provide f...

Here's the final report on the Midtown Corridor study from 2014: https://www.metrotransit.org/Data/Sites/1/media/midtown-corridor/midtown-corridor-final-report-low-res.pdf For light rail/streetcar on the Greenway, they assume it would be single car LRV or modern streetcar that's approximately 94 fee...

I wonder if the Midtown Greenway Coalition and/or other neighborhood groups would demand trains run on batteries instead of overhead wires. Since they really want to preserve the character of the corridor wouldn't overhead wires impact that?

Atlanta might use that for their streetcar too? I rode it while visiting a few years ago, and it was obviously the same vehicle as the Metro Transit Type II LRVs, but felt off in a way I couldn't quite place. Could have been that. Yes, Atlanta uses the Siemens S70. Not sure if theirs are shorter th...

Renderings I've seen of a Midtown "streetcar" show a single small LRV similar to ones in Seattle and Portland. The coalition definitely has a fashion over function philosophy, whereas I have the opposite thinking. Doesn't mean the trench has to be significantly modified, but I don't see th...

Where is the line drawn between fantasy and reality? I don't agree with Trademark's idea but it's within the realm of possibility. However, considering the "experts" ignored designing the Green Line Extension in a way to easily allow interlining with Midtown LRT at West Lake, then it lead...

Where is the line drawn between fantasy and reality? I don't agree with Trademark's idea but it's within the realm of possibility. However, considering the "experts" ignored designing the Green Line Extension in a way to easily allow interlining with Midtown LRT at West Lake, then it leads...

I might've said this already on here, but in my (potentially unpopular) opinion the Greenway should be BRT. There is no way to interline a Greenway LRT with the Green Line Extension at West Lake due to the tunnel, and on the east end the only alignment being considered (that I know of) are trains go...

My theory is they have so much stuff in their garage that they can't fit their car in there, so they park it on the street instead. At least that's what I think for neighborhoods like Bronx Park in St. Louis Park where there's tons of cars parked on the street and it basically makes the road 1 lane,...

Whenever I drive to Ingebretsen's or any other place on or near Lake Street I park on a side street. You couldn't pay me to park on Lake Street unless I have something the size of a Fiat 500. However, I'm sure residents and businesses will argue that taking away parking along Lake Street means more ...

Somewhere along the Minneapolis Diagonal Trail there's at least one sign about the right-of-way being owned by HCRRA for future light rail purposes, which I assume would be part of the proposed Northeast Corridor to White Bear Lake if it ever got built. Another interesting segment is the Lake Minnet...

Wasn't Eden Prairie one of the fastest growing suburbs when Southwest LRT was proposed in the 80s? There was also the opportunity of using railroad right-of-way the Chicago & North Western abandoned through Eden Prairie and Minnetonka in 1991, but that ended up not being the chosen alignment.

But with Lake recently funded and Central designated as a corridor now, it sure feels like we're waving the white flag on ever getting more trams/LRT/streetcars built along urban corridors (with the possible notable exceptions of Bottineau and Riverview, if those projects make it out of the plannin...