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So, how many dedicated lanes do the Red and Orange Line have? Very Little. Red: Uses the Highway 77 shoulder to bypass traffic if needed. Orange: The tunnel under 494, MN-Pass Lane(but it shares that with carpool traffic), Marq2 So honestly Purple Line will have more dedicated lanes, so in my opini...

Why is this still being billed at a colored metro line. This seems more in line with our lettered BRT. It hardly looks like its getting dedicated lanes where it matters most. Technically Bruce Vento Trail isn't off the table yet, but I just looked over the 15% design plans from 2020, there is still...

https://finance-commerce.com/2023/12/checking-in-on-rivernorth-development-plan/ Rivernorth development is moving ahead and is asking Metro Transit to put a station at Broadway/Washington, which makes a lot of sense. But in my opinion then the Lyndale Station should be moved down to Fremont for bett...

The office building proposal at the corner of Washington and Broadway that popped up back in 2022 has blossomed into a proposal to redevelop all four corners of the Broadway/2nd St N. intersection . According to this (locked) Finance & Commerce article, the ION Corp office/production facility i...

I've always wondered though how SWLRT's ridership will be reported, since it is an extension of the existing Green Line. I hope it is both reported separate and together with the existing Green Line.

1,750 ft supertall, second tallest in U.S., proposed. June and Retiredbanker unavailable for comment. https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2023/12/18/developer-to-build-2nd-tallest-building-in-the-us-for-okc-apartments/71937684007/ https://www.oklahoman.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2023/12/1...

I went running near the construction in Kenilworth the other day. They've laid several segments of track in the corridor. My untrained eye says they have to be closer than 3 more years of construction. But who knows? Civil construction as far as I am aware will be done in 2025, I'm assume then they...

SWLRT.JPG Some major milestones on Green Line Ext have happened. South Cedar Lake LRT Trail is reopened between Beltline and France, and a little over 11.5 contiguous miles of LRT track guideway has been laid between EP and West Lake. Sometimes with how done most of the project looks, it hurts that...

Why not just use Marquette and 2nd? The infrastructure is all there and underutilized and I doubt the express bus network is ever coming back like it once was. Connections on 5th St and 7th St become tricky in my opinion, you want them to be smooth and seamless, and Marq/2 doesn't do that as well a...

I'm curious if this will be redeveloped or will have to be taken for the Blue Line Extension. Either way it is an ugly car centric building and happy to see it go. on current plans for the blue line it show the building needing to be demolished so i would assume they will be looking to buy it hopef...

This is arguably North Loop, but the Wells Fargo site at Olson Memorial and 7th will be closed and sold. Branch relocating closer to North Minneapolis. https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2023/12/05/wells-fargo-close-branch-olson-memorial-highway.html I'm curious if this will be redeveloped...

There was a joint presentation from Public Works and Metro Transit to the Council today on the legislative directive to study removing buses from Nicollet Mall. ( Report version ). Notably, there's a (soft?) deadline in play - Metro Transit needs to inform the FTA by April if there's going to be a ...

If it's not a fully dedicated LRT, I would rather this just be a bus. Let's not waste a billion dollars and immense amounts of political capital on a streetcar please. This project is also the evidence we need to prove that transit planning in the Twin Cities is woefully broken. The fact that the M...

I’m a fan of option 1. The fact that the bus option can’t interline with the blue line is a pretty big downside.

Along with, we could have had aBRT in 2017, to waste all the time looking at a rail option and then go back to aBRT would be a massive waste.


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Long awaited update. Slide presentation for the Dec 5th CAC meeting available: https://www.ramseycounty.us/sites/default/files/Roads%20and%20Transit/Riverview/2023-12-05%20RCEPE_CAC_Presentation_final.pdf The big change is that they are looking at Kellogg for the downtown routing for the streetcar ...

Guess they're prepping to get started on the East Gateway project. I had completely forgotten about it.

https://themixmn.com/

It has a new development name and website. It's called The Mix.

Down to the final 6 flags, any bets on which one it's gonna get chosen?
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/11/2 ... state-flag

We started a new thread under Politics to talk about the flag, FYI

Here are the 6 finalists for the State Flag:

Huh, ridership shouldn't be a primary metric of a transit agency? The Red Line cost $115 million to build in 2013 dollars and now has fewer than 350 riders per day. There's got to be some connections to spending millions of dollars and the number of people who will ride the service. Maybe this regi...