urbanMSP

I've biked up and down 17 god know how many times and I would prefer the multiuse over the track. I hope they don't do the on street bikes lines, although they might not since correct me if I'm wrong but hopkins doesn't have a lot of them (only one I can recall is a bit on Blake south of Boyce st.)....

There's an easy way to reduce demand on 94 to justify getting rid of a few lanes.
Fully toll it between the two downtowns, although that might be the single option that would piss everyone off.

I will say though, I get the need to keep people away from an active construction site but many of the trail closures look like they could easily be reopened if there was an actual desire to do so. I think they just give up after a point and just let people on. I can't recall the section from Louis...

Do kids nowadays even care about Peanuts, or is the idea that the theming is targeted at nostalgic adults, who are the ones taking their kids there? My hunch is Thunder Canyon will be the next ride to dissappear. 1) It's old. 2) There's been some high profile incidents involving old raft rides 3) T...

It might just be nostalgia talking but I wouldn't mind Valleyfair expanding family attractions. Specifically renaming planet snoopy to camp snoopy and adding something that isn't just a kiddy flat ride since while I was like 7 or 8 when MOA lost the peanuts branding, I still have some strong memorie...

I've been down a weird rabbit hole of theme park essays and videos for some reason and buried in it was apparently during the freeze event a few months ago the general manger of the park mentioned to a few creators that attended that Valley Fair is most likely going to get a new coaster in 2025 or 2...

If the supra-national EU is comparable to the United States in terms of population, economic power, and international politics, then why are the EU "states" (countries) not comparable to US states? For example, Norway has almost the same population as Minnesota (5.4m vs 5.7m), similar GDP...

I disagree, trying to compare a state to a country is ridiculous. Whenever I here someone from California or Texas say they would be in the top 10 countries if they were independent, I can feel my eyes start to roll. Plus most of the world cares more about US cities rather than states when they both...

Or more likely the rest of the world still views Minnesota along with the rest of the Midwest scratch Chicago as a flyover state.

They do like their own stations, but mostly for land development reasons. I could see two scenarios where they would be open to using existing infrastructure: - Union Depot gives them the space and means to create their own customer experience at the station, similar to airport lounges for preferre...

I'm of the opinion every single state flag that uses the same blue background, slaps a seal in the middle regardless what said seal may or may not represent, and plasters it's name on the damn flag, is trash and any excuses to redesign them are welcome.

Lets see them win another world series first before they start asking for a new stadium. Should of actually been a condition for funding US Bank since that might of meant the Vikings finally winning something.

This might be a hot take but let me cook.
Brightline probably won't really look at the route for another 10 years
Target Field will be 23 years old at that time
The Twins moved out of the Metrodome after 25 years and Metropolitan Stadium after 20.

I really doubt they would choose Eau Claire over Rochester if their end goal was a new Chicago route. If their other projects follow suit with the way they developed Florida and they build an initial operating segment while they continue developing and negotiating further extensions, MSP-Rochester ...

Ok I'm a bit more willing to believe Brightline (or a real private company and not some Chinese scam company this time) coming to Minneapolis might be possible in 10ish year, but based on what I've seen from the FL and Vegas projects I'm willing to bet 2 things 1) they'll probably build their own st...

Would be nice if we could get Brightline on board, but they'd probably want it to be a Twin Cities-Rochester-Madison-Milwaukee-Chicago HSR service, which is a route that makes the most sense if we were to have any HSR service in our region, but it would be difficult from a political and economic st...

Feel like it might be worth reviving the thread since the gag order was lifted and there's a little discussion in the Dan Patch thread. Said it before but I don't see much happening unless Amtrak wants a third route to Chicago via Rochester, but who knows what will happen since TBH I really didn't t...

Assuming the extra dollars go to purchasing trainsets, in lieu of renting, does that effectively reduce the ongoing operating costs? I'm hoping they can leverage that into either lower fares, or banking an operational profit margin to pay for future (speed) improvements. Lower fares are needed. Wit...

I'm happy for the dan patch gag order being lifted, but still think ziprail has a snowball's chance in hell of happing (at least the true HSR 220mph proposal) regardless unless they can extend it to Chicago.

so venture coaches and chargers instead of then used amfleets 2 and or genesis then?
What was the proposed consist gonna be again, I think I remember hearing it something like 3-4 coaches with one train and one cab car.