urbanMSP

Because the world is aching to hear the transgressive voice of bored white rich kids getting gnarly.

Way to put millions in one neat little category.

Ha Ha. Skateboarders take your shitty concrete and make it art. If you're scared GTFO of the way, but they're not going to hit you or your kids. Skateparks are fun, but they are analogous to the climbing gym, good for training but not the real thing. Climbing actual rocks outside is real, as is repu...

You're confusing the problem of poverty with the problem of being uncomfortable by the presence of poverty.

The Transport Politic recently made the case against mixed traffic streetcars. http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2015/03/23/does-seattle-offer-the-path-forward-for-the-national-streetcar-movement/ I've said many times on this site that putting down rail without it's own right-of-way is an unproduct...

MPR posted some great historical photos of Minneapolis mostly taken in 1939.

http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/05/20/vachon

The current public seating spaces are now the domain of the homeless , panhandlers, people living in shelters, thug wannabes, etc. That will only increase with more available seating. That's the demographic reality that's been glossed over in this renovation process, which I guess is for fear of be...

I'm not going to comment on the redesign yet, because it doesn't seem to be loading right on work browser so I'll judge after they work out the bugs. But I've been thinking lately about the last redesign where they changed the comments options from a thumbs up / thumbs down option to only being able...

I get your point, but sooner or later (probably later) they're going to have to cut a deal. Killing SW in that deal gives the Republicans a victory for killing the "boondoggle" and allows the democratics to ditch their albatross, blame it on Republicans and get money for transit.Win/win. R...

I've been wondering about that too. The cost increase news was released at the perfect time to set up that type of deal.

What? No way. FMP, said it perfectly.

I don't think anybody here buys the claim that SWLRT is going to much of anything for the Northside, but by all means, keep banging that drum. It's amazing how much more urbanists on the Internet know about the needs of Northsiders than all the actual Northsiders who have vocally and repeatedly tal...

Northside would benefit a lot more if just a small portion of the SW money was redirected to aBRT and bulding better bus stop amenities. "I don't think anybody here buys the claim that SWLRT is going to much of anything for the Northside, but by all means, keep banging that drum." Thank yo...

Well, then my recollection is off. It seemed like a while ago. But before they were out of business entirely they changed their hours to more of a weekend only situation, so maybe it seems longer to me. I used to go there when I had a few minutes to wait for my bus after work. Once they ended their ...

They closed maybe two years ago.

This news really stings. It’s hard to accept that this light rail plan should be tossed into history’s dustbin with the many unrealized rail plans that came before. It’s difficult to change course after $59M of sunk costs. Yet, I think we have to treat this news as an opportunity. Before the news of...

That's true, but the pushback has been primarily from the left, not the right. I mean, the Miracle in Minneapolis article even wrote about our gaping disparities, but I still had to have an endless assault of links to the [insert left-wing blog/"news" site here] takedown from every one of...

That snow is an asset. The powderiest snow in the US, from what I hear.

I think news of our success does get pushback because it's so widely attributed to liberal policies. Seattle and Portland are West Coast cities, Denver is near mountains, Salt Lake City has mild weather, mountains, and mormons, and Houstan has the booming energy industry. We're just a town on the pr...

But you're presenting this as if it was a choice. The Vikings and Gophers were never going to play in the same stadium long term, regardless of whether the Average Joe believed they should. You've bought into the Vikings bluff hook, line and sinker. It certainly was a choice to build a shared facil...

I can see the smoke pouring into the sky from my downtown office.