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- February 16th, 2024, 10:01 am
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Metropolitan Council
- Replies: 178
- Views: 65044
Re: Metropolitan Council
Man could you imagine a more cohesive super region. more equal transportation network, more spread out response to low income housing. Maybe even being able to equitably spread out school funding across the entire region. Obviously bigger isn't always better for bureaucracies but it could be cool I...
- February 15th, 2024, 11:25 pm
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Metropolitan Council
- Replies: 178
- Views: 65044
Re: Metropolitan Council
My actual best case scenario idea is that every unit of government in the metro area should be rolled into the Met Council, which would then be elected and coherent and understandable to normal people. A little too wacko to suggest, though.
- February 14th, 2024, 12:57 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development
- Replies: 219
- Views: 93443
Re: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development
Not that I'm the market for it, but I was surprised to see "oh, there's an Oxendale's down here?" out the train window on Saturday.
- February 6th, 2024, 6:09 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Transit Crime
- Replies: 280
- Views: 1047345
Re: Transit Crime
Like all crime data, the number is basically made up--I wouldn't worry about the chart. The situation has been steadily improving for about a year, though my personal "days since experiencing a train fiasco" counter is only at five.
- February 3rd, 2024, 1:31 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2953
- Views: 747576
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Jamie, no!"I don't think that we should let things go unstudied just because nobody has done it," said Bloomington City Manager Jamie Verbrugge, who submitted a letter of support for the study.
- February 1st, 2024, 5:32 pm
- Forum: Updates - Announcements - Problems - Suggestions
- Topic: Forum Maintenance & Technical Issues
- Replies: 385
- Views: 133767
Re: Forum Maintenance & Technical Issues
I have once again forgotten to turn off the credit card autopay for our hosting--you all have an eleven month notice that this is going to go away if no one wants it.
- January 17th, 2024, 8:26 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Northern Lights Express
- Replies: 510
- Views: 526076
Re: Northern Lights Express
No one at any level of anything is going to get in trouble for it taking five times longer and it costing five times more than it should, but a lot of people will get a piece of the delay and overrun.
- December 13th, 2023, 11:11 am
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Minnesota State Flag and Seal Redeisgn
- Replies: 55
- Views: 249653
- December 2nd, 2023, 9:37 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Transit Crime
- Replies: 280
- Views: 1047345
Re: Transit Crime
better social safety net, transit not being seen as a place of last resort I wish we could have a conversation around these things instead of having to convince people who never ride transit not to spend all our transit money on useless gates and fences. A majority of the issues with Metro Transit ...
- November 27th, 2023, 6:17 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Transit Crime
- Replies: 280
- Views: 1047345
Re: Transit Crime
https://www.minnpost.com/cityscape/2023 ... good-idea/
Bill has managed to be the first person in the media to describe how and why the turnstiles are physically not workable. Good work, Bill.
Bill has managed to be the first person in the media to describe how and why the turnstiles are physically not workable. Good work, Bill.
- November 23rd, 2023, 9:13 am
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Minnesota State Flag and Seal Redeisgn
- Replies: 55
- Views: 249653
- November 19th, 2023, 11:58 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Red Line (Cedar Avenue BRT)
- Replies: 538
- Views: 234802
Re: Red Line (Cedar Avenue BRT)
“If you keep doing things that are a bad idea, it may eventually be a problem”
- Me in 2013
“Shut. Up!”
- everyone in charge of anything in 2013
- Me in 2013
“Shut. Up!”
- everyone in charge of anything in 2013
- November 6th, 2023, 2:45 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: New Third Precinct Station
- Replies: 12
- Views: 42631
Re: New Third Precinct Station
Didn't there used to be one in Uptown next to the McDonald's?
- November 1st, 2023, 5:53 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
- Replies: 2032
- Views: 824994
- October 25th, 2023, 4:39 pm
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Local politics, shenanigans
- Replies: 100
- Views: 109987
Re: Local politics, shenanigans
Some personal news--I'm so excited to announce that I've accepted a position as the city administrator of East Bethel.
- September 28th, 2023, 4:25 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: HERC - Hennepin Energy Recovery Center
- Replies: 33
- Views: 76700
Re: HERC - Hennepin Energy Recovery Center
Which I also haven't heard much about--there are non-garbage ways to produce steam (there are other steam plants downtown) but presumably the electricity for that comes from somewhere?
- September 26th, 2023, 4:49 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Fare-Free Transit
- Replies: 24
- Views: 42168
- September 26th, 2023, 4:28 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1014170
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
At this point, I have a medium-length list of places in my head where there was a redevelopment and we missed an opportunity to reconnect the grid. We blew a lot of money on watercolors for unnecessary small area plans in random parts of the city from ~1990 to ~2015, while there were a lot of areas ...
- September 21st, 2023, 2:52 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
- Replies: 1298
- Views: 851079
- September 21st, 2023, 2:51 pm
- Forum: Cities Around the World
- Topic: Denver
- Replies: 108
- Views: 100350
Re: Denver
You generally have to do the companion certificate pretty far in advance. They've gotten real stingy with it. Had to layover in Atlanta like an animal on the way back from North Carolina on Sunday.