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- September 6th, 2023, 10:55 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Better Bus Routes - Metro Transit
- Replies: 34
- Views: 66540
Re: Better Bus Routes - Metro Transit
Yeah, the obsession with killing the downtown hub-and-spoke in favor of a cartesian grid is truly baffling to me. You're benefiting hardly anybody, and hurting lots of people who do want to go downtown (or who would like to make a different connection there).
- September 5th, 2023, 12:51 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Better Bus Routes - Metro Transit
- Replies: 34
- Views: 66540
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
I think I've asked this before, but does the 4 layover at the Gateway Ramp?
- August 21st, 2023, 9:29 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5287
- Views: 1288497
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
That's interesting. If you look at google maps for what has been built so far, you can see that they've left space to widen the LRT bridge next to HERC to the north, so that must be the plan.
- August 18th, 2023, 11:07 am
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Hennepin County Commissioner Districts 1, 5, 6, 7 (2020)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11621
Re: Hennepin County Commissioner Districts 1, 5, 6, 7 (2020)
That's fine, we'll just deduct the extra costs of the special election this will require from his paychecks over the next year.
- August 17th, 2023, 2:36 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
- Topic: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics
- Replies: 964
- Views: 357754
Re: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics
Yeah, not sure what the office vacancy levels are like in St. Anthony Main, but I could definitely see some of that space getting converted to a boutique hotel.
- August 17th, 2023, 2:32 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5287
- Views: 1288497
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Does anyone know if they are building out all of the track junctions/switches needed for BLRT as part of the SWLRT project? Although BLRT will now go up 7th rather than Olson, it was always proposed to leave that track junction and cross 7th/Olson at grade. I have to imagine some of that was includ...
- August 4th, 2023, 1:16 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
- Topic: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics
- Replies: 964
- Views: 357754
Re: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics
Heaven forbid people are able to sit at a bar or restaurant and enjoy a view of the river.
- August 4th, 2023, 1:13 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 356
- Views: 148598
Re: Interstate 94
I have no idea about actual vehicle counts, but when 35W was under construction through south Minneapolis (not fully closed), the traffic impacts were very significant on all of the parallel surface streets. It was a major relief for the surrounding residents to have that work completed.
- August 3rd, 2023, 5:29 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 356
- Views: 148598
Re: Interstate 94
Not to mention all of the impacts to other traffic that you generate by removing the grade separation. Traffic lights are more frequent and cycles are longer, and the impacts ripple across the area. It really does boggle my mind that people think pushing this amount of traffic (or even a fraction th...
- July 28th, 2023, 10:38 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: The Dayton's Project
- Replies: 354
- Views: 262118
Re: The Dayton's Project
Only if they're able to work out air rights with the adjacent property owner to cut in some more windows on the back side of the building.
- July 26th, 2023, 11:23 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Chanhassen - Chaska - Carver County
- Replies: 119
- Views: 122034
Re: Chanhassen - Chaska - Carver County
I don't think the Dinner Theater is any sort of trouble, at least not by outward signs. I've seen decent crowds there and they seem to advertise heavily whenever a new show comes out. I didn't mean to suggest that they were in trouble financially, only that they're sitting on a big piece of land th...
- July 25th, 2023, 9:27 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Chanhassen - Chaska - Carver County
- Replies: 119
- Views: 122034
Re: Chanhassen - Chaska - Carver County
Makes you wonder how much longer the dinner theater will be able to hold on.
- July 20th, 2023, 10:17 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 356
- Views: 148598
Re: Interstate 94
I still think that it's profoundly silly that we're even discussing removing grade separation here. If you can't even get half of the people on this forum to agree that it's a good idea, just imagine how this will play in broader constituencies.
- June 29th, 2023, 11:39 am
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Minneapolis City Politics General Discussion
- Replies: 430
- Views: 153610
Re: Minneapolis City Politics General Discussion
Yes, and it sounds like the proponents also could have moved to table the motion, but they didn't. Here's the Strib's write-up. This chunk towards the end of the article seems particularly damning, almost as if the arch-progressive block was more interested in using the issue as an election wedge is...
- June 29th, 2023, 7:09 am
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Minneapolis City Politics General Discussion
- Replies: 430
- Views: 153610
Re: Minneapolis City Politics General Discussion
Frey was absolutely going to veto this, and the council definitely didn't have the votes to override, so it was dead either way.
- June 28th, 2023, 12:00 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
- Topic: Bassett Creek Valley Redevelopment
- Replies: 47
- Views: 47240
Re: Bassett Creek Valley Redevelopment
Based off of the renderings, I'm pretty confident that TAB is right.
https://bkvgroup.com/projects/shelby-commons/
Note also that the Border Avenue extension to Glenwood is located right next to this project. If that's still a thing?
https://bkvgroup.com/projects/shelby-commons/
Note also that the Border Avenue extension to Glenwood is located right next to this project. If that's still a thing?
- June 15th, 2023, 11:56 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: MPS Comprehensive District Design
- Replies: 39
- Views: 46922
Re: MPS Comprehensive District Design
$976 million budget for 28000 students? If my calculator is to be believed then they are spending 34,857 per student. I have no idea what the typical student costs but that strikes me as a bit high (especially so given student performance in MPS). Not sure how that jibes with this quote from the ar...
- June 15th, 2023, 10:58 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: MSP Airport / Metropolitan Airports Commission
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 366562
Re: MSP Airport / Metropolitan Airports Commission
I looked it up because I was curious, and I was honestly really surprised how few flights were happening at St. Paul -- around 40k per year, which is about 1/3 of what's happening at Flying Cloud. That said, I think that the nature of the flights out of St. Paul is a different mix than the other rel...
- June 14th, 2023, 2:25 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: MSP Airport / Metropolitan Airports Commission
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 366562
Re: MSP Airport / Metropolitan Airports Commission
I think that the St. Cloud airport is just a little too far out. They've tried for years to market it as an option for people living in the Northwest suburbs, but it's never caught on. Paine Field near Seattle is trying to develop itself as a back up airport option with some success, but it's much c...
- June 13th, 2023, 1:14 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: MPS Comprehensive District Design
- Replies: 39
- Views: 46922
Re: MPS Comprehensive District Design
Hard to believe that was the outcome, when the teacher's union was negotiating against a board made up of stern capitalist pencil pushers... [checks notes] endorsed by the teacher's union.