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If only we had, like, decades of experience to know that plowing curb to curb is actually quite difficult, and becomes impossible once snowbanks reach a certain height such that plowed snow falls back into the street. And if only somebody could have predicted that introducing all sorts of physical i...

Seriously, the city has been designing recent projects without any acknowledgement that it snows here, and the only reason they haven't gotten burned on it until now is that most of the substandard lanes they've built so far can cheat into painted bike lane separation zones when the snowbanks build ...

I haven't been in there since the remodeling wrapped, but the building footprint didn't change, so the dining room is still there, right? They're just not using it? (Which they have been doing since Covid hit, I'm pretty certain.)

1. This should have as few stops as possible. It's paralleling the Green Line, which already does a great job of serving intermediate destinations.
2. This should definitely stop at Huron. The UofM is a massive trip generator.

It's worth remembering that a lot of the suburbs have formed cooperative agreements with neighbors or their county to provide municipal services more efficiently.

When they say first floor, I assume that they mean the ground floor with frontage facing northeast? If so, that's going to become a very congested little area, with a pretty terrible parking layout for a grocery store. Looks like the Kowalski's will be on the upper floor of the old Herberger's (fac...

Please explain to me why these issues with privately owned infrastructure is now the responsibility of the state.

Especially since railroads have been such good neighbors and always willing to work hard and negotiate in the interest of the greater good.

Don't forget about all of the tourists visiting St. Cloud.

I'm skeptical but hopeful that NLX to Duluth will be successful, but I'm really quite certain that Amtrak to St. Clould will somehow have even fewer riders than Northstar.

I saw somewhere from a totally unknown source that they discovered some structural issues when they started the Southgate project and had to bail on the original plans.

Wasn't one of the big takeaways of the original Blue line and Green line that it's better to run trains down the middle of roads rather than on the side? And if so, why do we have so much side running rail in these plans? I can't tell from the plans -- are they still proposing to cross the 7th St/6t...

For what it's worth, the argument went that should buy the railroad so that TC&W wouldn't be a stumbling block in negotiations, not that they would shut it down. They could have done the necessary reroutes and then resold it to a private company as-is, or hired somebody to operate it on their be...

As soon as I saw who wrote that I clicked out of it.

Magrino again?

The excursion train thread reminded me that at one point the Renaissance Festival was supposed to be relocating, due to their lease with the quarry around them ending. A little googling found their new proposed location outside of Jordan, but then radio silence. Did I miss that they were able to som...

That fairly pronounced path that cuts down along the side of the bluff -- anybody know the story behind that? It seems too deliberate just to be a desire path.

It's stupid, but I'm sure the issue is that if they make any improvements that encourage people to cross here, and then somebody crosses and gets run over by a train, they'll be liable.

It may be a pipe dream, but I think there's still a decent chance that the Bassett Creek Valley station will eventually be surrounded by some pretty dense TOD.

Has anybody seen any updates on the big redevelopment project at Roseville?

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The City and County are making plans to reconstruct the 1st Avenue S, 10th Avenue S, Nicollet Avenue S and Pillsbury Avenue S Bridges over the Midtown Greenway.

Source.