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- September 26th, 2023, 1:08 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2953
- Views: 735672
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
TSP was installed quite a while ago on Central Ave, but it seems that it was turned off at some point. These stop cuts are long overdue. 4th, 6th, 18th, and 19th are all maybe 300 feet or so from the adjacent stop. 28th, 30th, and 34th don't have a paired SB stop, and 36th is adjacent to the railro...
- September 25th, 2023, 9:39 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2953
- Views: 735672
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Surprise (to me, at least) stop consolidation and TSP coming to the Minneapolis portion of the Rt. 10 in a couple weeks. Looks like it will generally drop stop spacing down to every other block in the areas that currently have a stop every single block. https://twitter.com/h_pan3/status/170632561438...
- September 25th, 2023, 9:34 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1001689
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Glad to hear it! Honestly an embarrassing article from Janet Moore, who's usually pretty good. Just transparently bad faith to uncritically repeat arguments that removing car traffic from 10th would make it worse to walk on. My bike commute goes through there and I see people get almost hit by cars ...
- September 24th, 2023, 8:38 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1001689
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
In a twist no one could have expected, the gambit to avoid the NIMBYs on Lyndale by routing down 10th and Washington has run into NIMBYs on 10th.
- September 24th, 2023, 8:20 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
- Topic: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics
- Replies: 964
- Views: 356495
Re: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics
This article from May about the Wayzata Red Cow said that the NE development was next on the list, probably in 2024. I guess demoing now tracks with starting construction in the spring? Can't really blame them for canning the brewery component with the current issues in that market. But the mixed-u...
- September 21st, 2023, 8:49 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
- Topic: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics
- Replies: 964
- Views: 356495
Re: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics
Three story redevelopment at 201 Lowry. Brewpub on the ground, office on 2nd floor. More dining on 3rd. https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2019/07/02/red-cow-plans-brewpub-in-northeast-minneapolis.html The Little Jack's building is being demolished today. I guess this project might still b...
- September 20th, 2023, 9:36 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Uptown - LynLake - The Wedge - News & General
- Replies: 1498
- Views: 603297
Re: Uptown-LynLake-Wedge - News & General Topics
Seriously. Lots of opportunities open up if someone can crack the code on 4-6 story single-lot developments. I guess this isn't quite a 40' wide standard lot, but it's gotta be easier to assemble a 60' wide site on Hennepin or Central or Nicollet or wherever than a half-block.
- September 20th, 2023, 7:52 am
- Forum: Cities Around the World
- Topic: Denver
- Replies: 108
- Views: 97870
Re: Denver
My spouse and I just did a car-free weekend in Denver at the end of July, and definitely didn't run out of stuff to do. The Art Museum and Capitol are right downtown, and the zoo and science museum at City Park are not too bad of a bus ride. We found the RTD transit buses and trains to be reliable, ...
- September 14th, 2023, 12:52 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2953
- Views: 735672
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
I wonder how much of the transportation use would have to be retained to prevent issues with federal grants. Leaving a little space open for a theoretical streetcar was apparently good enough for the Gateway block to be redeveloped, would a 100ish-stall public parking component of a redevelopment do...
- September 14th, 2023, 11:02 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2953
- Views: 735672
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Today is the last day for the Hawthorne Transportation Center. Greyhound, Jefferson Lines, Flixbus, and Land to Air will all be moving to Ramp B starting tomorrow.
- September 7th, 2023, 9:35 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2953
- Views: 735672
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Metro Transit is increasing Northstar service starting October 2. They'll be adding a third peak direction trip and a reverse trip every weekday, and adjusting the existing trip times to allow the first peak trip, reverse trip, and third peak trip to use the same trainset. There will also be servic...
- September 5th, 2023, 7:34 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Better Bus Routes - Metro Transit
- Replies: 34
- Views: 66486
Re: Better Bus Routes - Metro Transit
If I remember correctly, Route 4 scored the highest (like, even higher than the 10 and 18) on the rubric they were using to select the recent wave of aBRT lines a couple years ago, implying that it would get aBRT'd soon, but they didn't actually confirm it would be next. I'm still holding out hope t...
- September 5th, 2023, 7:20 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2953
- Views: 735672
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Mod note: I moved the aBRT posts over to the dedicated thread I created for easier searchability a couple years ago then promptly forgot about.
- September 5th, 2023, 12:36 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Better Bus Routes - Metro Transit
- Replies: 34
- Views: 66486
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
https://twitter.com/MetroTransitMN/status/1699128290798170582 Route 4 is up next for better busification. It's probably too much to ask to have all trips go up to Silver Lake Village, but it would be cool if the north endpoint of the 4 could be at Central/Hennepin/8thish so that all trips crossed t...
- August 25th, 2023, 9:54 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
- Replies: 1298
- Views: 840545
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
Sounds like they think there'll eventually be Target people downtown again to interact with.
- August 23rd, 2023, 12:13 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Suburbs - General Topics
- Replies: 1138
- Views: 364285
Re: Suburbs - General Topics
In "lol suburbs" news, Boston Scientific is building a new facility on the old gravel pits east of Arbor Lakes. It will include 1,238 parking stalls for "at least 256 employees". There will be a solar array, though, so don't go calling them eco-unfriendly.
- August 18th, 2023, 3:26 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
- Replies: 1803
- Views: 1069416
Re: Bicycle Infrastructure
The official detour for that section is unpleasantly circuitious, but cutting through on Park Glen Rd and the parking lot of that long commercial building works well.
- August 17th, 2023, 8:01 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5287
- Views: 1285685
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
It occurs to me that there's a silver lining with construction being delayed: if it was actually opening this fall as planned, we'd be running, what, probably 30 minute frequencies at best? The way it's going it may very well take 3-4 more years to staff up to however many LRV operators they need to...
- August 11th, 2023, 12:56 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 356
- Views: 148238
Re: Interstate 94
The fact that there wasn't (as far as I know) a peep of opposition to turning the outer lanes of that section of Lake into bus lanes with the B Line is a good indicator of how overbuilt it is.
- August 10th, 2023, 7:56 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1001689
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Can't wait to sit waiting for lights at the extra eight grade crossings, secure in the knowledge that wasting all the time of all of the thousands of Blue Line riders is saving a couple dozen homeowners from the unthinkable horror of having the speeding traffic on Lyndale be replaced by a quiet elec...