urbanMSP

I managed to resist ever reading SSC or really getting involved in any of this consortium stuff, but good god these last few days have been entertaining to watch.

It will be interesting to see how many of them City Center is able to relocate down to the 15k of vacant space past the GNC. It's hard to say how much of the traffic on the east end of City Center is due to the restaurants and how much is due to the natural crossroads in the skyway. Perhaps with May...

It would be nice if it was built in such a way that you could also run slower but more local service on the line, I don't really know what European best practices are for that, but I'm sure they do it all over. Besides perhaps a second Dakota Co stop a bit closer in, what's the point of local servi...

There's probably good reason that they're just going to use regular TV monitors instead of proprietary LED message boards. I mean, we have the NexTrip thing available for each stop number...it does seem to be the smartest way to go. Definitely aesthetically superior to an LED message board. Plus, s...

A Metro Transit spokesman said the agency loves that a dog appreciates public transit.

http://www.startribune.com/nation/288350731.html

I would however be interested in pinching and pulling at the fringes of those qualifiers, to see if you could get a bigger network with a 6:30-6:30 window of service, instead of 6am-7pm, or by easing or eliminating the Saturday requirement. What if the Saturday requirement was 30-minutes?? I think ...

I was also taken aback the first time I went through the public spaces of the building. Disrespectful is a good way to describe it.

My initial online-only deal was something like $5 for 8 weeks. I cancelled that once they charged me the regular rate, which is way too high. They continued to beg for my return with email offers, and eventually I jumped on one that was like $20 or $25 for 6 months of access, plus TWO FREE STATE FA...

Paying the rack rate for the Strib is ridiculous. I just renewed for another year of online access for $20. I would have paid up to $60-80, but that's what they offered me. After an initial renewal invoice for ~$140 for a year. Paying for journalism is important, but so is getting a good deal. Curi...

But I still see no evidence tall buildings visually draw people to a certain location in an urban environment. I will say that every time I have been to Michigan Ave, I have specifically walked to the north end, where there isn't much but the Hancock Tower. Sorry, but those buildings kind of prove ...

I don't have a list in front of me right now, but there are a whole host of suburbs and smaller cities that allow ADUs-- though with heavy restrictions that really make them a whole different animal than what is being proposed in Minneapolis and the sort of examples that most of us picture when we t...

If this ends up being 24hr (or at least open to 11 or 12, as opposed to 8 at the current Walgreens), it would be huge for downtown's livability. With the residential and hotel growth on this end of downtown, I could see it. A large convenience store with good hours within easy walking distance is a ...

v important buisness 4 u 2 consider

https://streets.mn/2014/11/14/transporta ... -analysis/

Very well done.

I did once see a woman bring two live chickens on a public bus (they were in cages).

On that note, did anyone outside of Jacob Frey and a few neighborhood group members ever see DLC's rejected "500-unit/6-story" proposal? Local media never got around to sharing renderings. Are you sure? I feel like there was a vague rendering floating around while it was in the news. I'm ...

I think it was down a good portion of day... I was unable to connect this morning.

It's a lot of fun! The lines get kind of long at a some of the sites (I waited well over an hour each for Tribune and Jewlers two years ago), but at least the event is doing well. This year I made it to 190 LaSalle, Board of Trade, Union Station, Old Republic, Chicago Temple (my only repeat that I c...

There apparently was (is?) an existing tunnel connecting the two Strib buildings.

EDIT: Sorry, just looked at the PDF -- this clearly isn't what was being referred to.

Off topic at this point, but yes, there was one.

For me it was an article about this weekend's gun violence: 40 wounded, 5 dead. Damn. If you aren't familiar: http://heyjackass.com/ Back on topic: I have never understood this project. Then again, I have never understood any (able-bodied) person who will do an intermodal transfer to go such a shor...

I'm sure a few of you have seen this already, but after seeing "the City Council recently banned the word "vibrant"" in the pitch video, I had to share it here.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/91 ... t-urbanity

All that and none of you stuck around for the hysteria-free farmstand ammendment?!

Good concise points, guys.