Probably just me in the fantasy thread: viewtopic.php?p=153485Has there been any proposal to have any kind of rail their downtown in the past 30 years?
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- December 19th, 2023, 8:34 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
- Replies: 1803
- Views: 1081747
Re: Bicycle Infrastructure
- December 19th, 2023, 8:29 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Future Cars: Electric and Autonomous Vehicles
- Replies: 545
- Views: 212667
Re: Future Cars: Electric and Autonomous Vehicles
Doomsday preppers want old trucks before computer-controlled engines (EMP hardened) running on diesel (easier to bulk store for long term without degradation). And not just one bug-out truck, but a menu of vehicle options to survive different scenarios.
Or so I've heard...
Or so I've heard...
- December 15th, 2023, 12:47 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1015597
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
So they've looked at a viaduct over the CR 81 viaduct to get the station on the North Memorial side of the intersection, and they've looked at leaving it at grade under the CR81 viaduct. But why not just have a station at the same level as the CR81 viaduct with vertical circulation on each side?
- December 15th, 2023, 11:55 am
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Minnesota State Flag and Seal Redeisgn
- Replies: 55
- Views: 249993
Re: Minnesota State Flag and Seal Redeisgn
"People probably need to do some self reflection," whether true or not, isn't the political sales pitch one may think it is.
- December 11th, 2023, 9:03 am
- Forum: Greater Minnesota
- Topic: Rochester
- Replies: 590
- Views: 457430
Re: Rochester
Really sad how the only walkable streetscapes in Rochester is under threat, both the Broadway project above and the news of the long-time Dooley's spot (the only redeeming street-life-creating part of the parking ramp they built across their only historic streetscape less than two decades ago) closi...
- December 4th, 2023, 9:26 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Transit Crime
- Replies: 280
- Views: 1047930
Re: Transit Crime
better social safety net, transit not being seen as a place of last resort A majority of the issues with Metro Transit right now are failures of the state and federal governments to provide enough social services and housing, issues a transit agency has neither the funds nor ability to solve. Are t...
- December 1st, 2023, 12:01 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: MSP Airport / Metropolitan Airports Commission
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 372498
Re: MSP Airport / Metropolitan Airports Commission
Those two new FIS-connected gates on G (which block other FIS gates) won't keep up with this growth. The final draft 2040 plan plans a mid-term project to rebuild the Green/Gold ramps (oldest/closest to the T1 drop-off) with that space having expanded curbside areas and a new FIS facility. A reconst...
- November 30th, 2023, 11:19 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 576488
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
An old option to get rid of those tight ramps, which would be compatible with their desire to use the northern half of the lower/existing bridge deck for trains with a tight turn west of the Ft. Snelling chapel.
- November 1st, 2023, 8:50 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
- Replies: 1298
- Views: 852427
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
This Wall Street Journal article features Downtown Minneapolis and highlights the high office vacancy rate and conversion of some buildings to housing: https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/commercial/wrecking-ball-targets-empty-downtown-offices-d0e3391 archive without paywall https://archive.ph/bTdX0#se...
- November 1st, 2023, 8:40 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
- Replies: 2032
- Views: 826386
Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
They better keep the plan to have a gondola cross the river and enter the west side of the post office for its downtown terminus.
- October 18th, 2023, 11:17 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Dan Patch Intercity Regional Passenger Rail
- Replies: 181
- Views: 166345
Re: Dan Patch Intercity Regional Passenger Rail
A little history lesson on the Dan Patch Line: With a north-south route that has/had several connections to east-west railroads and avoiding the busy rail yards in Minneapolis and St. Paul, the Dan Patch Line was quite successful with interchange traffic going from one major railroad to another maj...
- October 2nd, 2023, 6:01 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Freight Rail News and Happenings
- Replies: 247
- Views: 131816
Re: Freight Rail News and Happenings
I expect TC&W to request funding to repair some track in Savage so then maybe they'll finally start running grain trains on the Dan Patch Line again. But then again I've heard rumors CPKC isn't very supportive of that initiative, even though TC&W has trackage rights on the Dan Patch Line. N...
- September 13th, 2023, 2:37 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: MSP Airport / Metropolitan Airports Commission
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 372498
Re: MSP Airport / Metropolitan Airports Commission
Has anyone seen which terminal LH will use? Aer Lingus was in T1 along with the other oneworld airlines American and Alaska (though Alaska is new to oneworld since Aer Lingus' previous suspension). Lufthansa's Star Alliance friends United and Air Canada are in T1 as well. But T1's international arri...
- September 12th, 2023, 4:29 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Thrivent HQ & Moment apartments - 500 7th St & 650 Portland Ave
- Replies: 225
- Views: 415479
Re: Thrivent HQ & Moment apartments - 500 7th St & 650 Portland Ave
Does this have an interior skyway connection even if on the main floor?I wonder why Starbucks would close the store on the Commons and reopen over here so quickly?
- September 12th, 2023, 4:28 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Eagan, Apple Valley, Burnsville - General Topics
- Replies: 135
- Views: 172027
Re: Eagan, Apple Valley, Burnsville - General Topics
Too bad, because some combination of the following would be great: - Realign Fort Road Bridge to connect with Shepard instead of W 7th. W 7th could end at Davern for connection to Shepard/Hwy 5, and the existing W. 7th corridor cutting through the grid could stay for streetcar/LRT from the bridge to...
- September 11th, 2023, 12:38 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Eagan, Apple Valley, Burnsville - General Topics
- Replies: 135
- Views: 172027
Re: Eagan, Apple Valley, Burnsville - General Topics
I wonder why the skyway wasn't connected to the west side of the freeway... that could have provided some TOD as well.
- September 6th, 2023, 7:28 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Better Bus Routes - Metro Transit
- Replies: 34
- Views: 66938
Re: Better Bus Routes - Metro Transit
Are there enough N-S crosstown trips to justify not going through downtown and depriving many other riders of the trips and transfers available downtown? While E-W crosstown routes are different, seems like Minneapolis' grid (downtown askew) and geography (Bassett Creek, river corridor, etc) are fav...
- August 22nd, 2023, 8:40 am
- Forum: Updates - Announcements - Problems - Suggestions
- Topic: Forum Maintenance & Technical Issues
- Replies: 385
- Views: 134041
Re: Forum Maintenance & Technical Issues
Which reminds me: someone should take over the forum! Who wants it? Let Sean know!
- August 21st, 2023, 8:20 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1015597
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Imagine a history where instead of assuming railroads would play nice in swampy low-intensity corridors, we had done elevated driverless automated light metros from the start with 3-4 minute headways regardless of driver shortages.
- August 21st, 2023, 8:17 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
- Topic: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics
- Replies: 964
- Views: 364092
Re: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics
The history of hotels outside the CBD is fascinating. Back when I worked at WFHM, some of our consultants who'd fly in to work with us would stay at the Midtown Sheraton because it was close enough to walk, but others would stay downtown or in the burbs. Anyone know the disposition of the old Midtow...