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by Didier
February 23rd, 2022, 1:44 pm
Forum: Saint Paul
Topic: Saint Paul - General Topics
Replies: 694
Views: 385680

Re: Saint Paul - General Topics

Then getting anywhere outside of my neighborhood would become much more of a hassle.
by Didier
February 23rd, 2022, 1:38 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Interstate 94
Replies: 321
Views: 139356

Re: Interstate 94

I lived in the Prospect Park area for about a decade, so in the shadow of 94. In a perfect world the highway wouldn't be there, but the build environment surrounding 94 has developed in weird ways that wouldn't be easy to reconnect. From a logistical standpoint, reconnecting south Minneapolis over 3...
by Didier
February 22nd, 2022, 10:23 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Interstate 94
Replies: 321
Views: 139356

Re: Interstate 94

I still contend that there are large swaths of 94 that wouldn't greatly benefit from being connected, especially for what it'd cost. It's really not until you get east of Lexington that you start to have neighborhoods on both sides of the highway.
by Didier
February 22nd, 2022, 12:51 pm
Forum: Saint Paul
Topic: Saint Paul - General Topics
Replies: 694
Views: 385680

Re: Saint Paul - General Topics

Not directly part of Town & Country, but there's a ton of room for improvement on Cretin. The road is really cramped now and doesn't even have a sidewalk on the west side. What'd I'd really like to see, though, is a parkway treatment with a median. For such a major entrance into the city (and al...
by Didier
February 20th, 2022, 8:56 pm
Forum: Saint Paul
Topic: Saint Paul - General Topics
Replies: 694
Views: 385680

Re: Saint Paul - General Topics

It's way more random than I anticipated. I was thinking the townhouses would be like two stories, so the main building was visible behind them. I can't imagine the appeal of these two buildings so close together. You could never open your window!
by Didier
February 11th, 2022, 9:26 pm
Forum: Cities Around the World
Topic: Phoenix
Replies: 12
Views: 6472

Re: Phoenix

It's interesting to hear positive takes on Phoenix here. I'm not among the hardline urbanists on this forum, but I found Phoenix to be the definition of a car sewer and a city lacking of culture. Everywhere you look it's a six-lane road and a chain store.
by Didier
February 10th, 2022, 10:34 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Future of the forum
Replies: 66
Views: 44929

Re: Future of the forum

While we're doing this, whatever happened to FISHMANPET?
by Didier
February 8th, 2022, 2:06 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Future of the forum
Replies: 66
Views: 44929

Re: Future of the forum

It was way weirder than even that, though. There was an army of sock puppets on LinkedIn, weird renderings that looked like they came from a newspaper in a 1980s sci-fi film, claims of pitching local projects to Donald Trump. It had all the hallmarks of the weird online conspiracies that we have gro...
by Didier
February 8th, 2022, 12:25 am
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Future of the forum
Replies: 66
Views: 44929

Re: Future of the forum

Some of us are still getting over it
by Didier
February 4th, 2022, 10:20 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: 800 Washington Av S (Guthrie ramp liner) - AECOM / City of Lakes Community Land Trust
Replies: 125
Views: 65387

Re: 800 Washington Av S (Guthrie ramp liner) - AECOM / City of Lakes Community Land Trust

Is there a reason buildings here don't do the thing where the first floor is raised like a half floor above the sidewalk level? That also creates the possibility for basement units, which in theory would be more affordable. There are so many first-floor units in Minneapolis where you could basically...
by Didier
February 3rd, 2022, 8:28 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Future of the forum
Replies: 66
Views: 44929

Re: Future of the forum

Shoot Venmo also asked for your birth date and ssn. Any help?
by Didier
January 25th, 2022, 9:36 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Civilian Shoveling Corps
Replies: 29
Views: 10229

Re: Civilian Shoveling Corps

That's not the point, though. There are plenty of people who are perfectly capable of either shoveling their sidewalks or contracting someone to help and simply don't do it. I'm looking for some teeth here!
by Didier
January 16th, 2022, 2:10 pm
Forum: Saint Paul
Topic: Saint Paul - General Topics
Replies: 694
Views: 385680

Re: Saint Paul - General Topics

Does anyone (aka seanrichardryan) know what the plan is for the new building going up at Marshall and Finn (the one across from Marshall at Finn)? It almost looks like there will be a separate line of row houses in front of the main building.
by Didier
January 7th, 2022, 4:52 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Civilian Shoveling Corps
Replies: 29
Views: 10229

Re: Civilian Shoveling Corps

Put two *city employees* in a truck two days after a snowfall, give them two shovels and there’s no way they don’t pay for themselves. But again, if the city doesn’t have the resources to do it themselves, setting up a marketplace for private contractors shouldn’t actually be that hard, and every jo...
by Didier
January 7th, 2022, 12:22 am
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Civilian Shoveling Corps
Replies: 29
Views: 10229

Re: Civilian Shoveling Corps

The idea of a central city shoveling service is obviously absurd. Let's take a system that works 95 percent of the time and replace it with an incredibly complex and expensive government program. No! (Assuming you were suggesting that tongue in cheek, but still) What I really don't understand is why...
by Didier
January 4th, 2022, 9:39 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Civilian Shoveling Corps
Replies: 29
Views: 10229

Re: Civilian Shoveling Corps

There's an (unoccupied?) duplex a block over from mine that hasn't been shoveled from the last snowfall. If the current system can't figure out how to handle single properties like that, I don't think getting the city *more* involved is going to help. The thing is, shoveling is actually really easy....
by Didier
December 30th, 2021, 3:16 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Civilian Shoveling Corps
Replies: 29
Views: 10229

Re: Civilian Shoveling Corps

In other words, what I'm saying is if anyone here is an app developer and/or a venture capitalist, let's go for it.
by Didier
December 30th, 2021, 3:13 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Civilian Shoveling Corps
Replies: 29
Views: 10229

Civilian Shoveling Corps

Here's my idea: The Civilian Shoveling Corps. Or, more specifically, a city program that pays people who go out and take care of unshoveled sidewalks. So, it snows. Two days later, anyone with the MPLS CSC™ app gets an alert: Go for it. You head out to your neighborhood. See an unshoveled sidewalk? ...
by Didier
December 9th, 2021, 11:14 pm
Forum: Local Politics and Governance
Topic: Minnesota Governor Election 2022
Replies: 39
Views: 13344

Re: Minnesota Governor Election 2022

This is beside the point, but if Walz wins doesn't he have to be considered a pretty legitimate option for presidential candidate? I mean, he's an outstate Democrat, stable governor of a Midwestern state, national guard, only 57 years old, doesn't have a funny name like Hickenlooper. I'm convinced t...
by Didier
November 19th, 2021, 2:19 pm
Forum: Updates - Announcements - Problems - Suggestions
Topic: Forum Maintenance & Technical Issues
Replies: 385
Views: 124188

Re: Forum Maintenance & Technical Issues

And we're back to normal. No idea why, but must have been to do with my browser. It wasn't the zoom in/out issue, though. I had tried that. Thanks for the tips!