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It did happen when 35W was closed, though. Park and Portland got their buffered bike lanes turned into overflow lanes, and even so I heard a lot from my south metro coworkers about how bad Lyndale and Blaisdell were for those years. I think there are real differences in traffic reactions between te...

Whatever happened to the Bike Coalition? You never hear about them anymore. I am sure I am missing the joke, but they are Our Streets Minneapolis now, and they have been pretty prominent in pushing for the return of 6th Ave N and replacing 94 with a boulevard. Or is it that these things are not suf...

Do you have an opinion on how 2.2 billion people should interpret their religious texts with respect to abortion and gay rights?

I do not. Interpret how you want. Just don't expect anyone else to have to live by your rules.

Counter-thought: The three who were not in the room were all strong proponents of rent control, and they 100% knew the vote was happening at this meeting (which, again, had already been rescheduled from Thurs to Weds in efforts to avoid conflicting with Eid...until the holiday changed just 10 days ...

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. However, some of the people on the council routinely blame mediocrity as a reason to do nothing (see: Palmisano's logic that because we do a bad job plowing streets, we shouldn't even try to plow sidewalks), so it's not a ma...

There is a lot of law around construction, ranging from extensive and detailed contracts to statutes and regulations to case law interpreting all of that.

Construction on Lake Street is officially underway. The 4-3 conversion is not going over well on Nextdoor.

It boggles my mind that some people are against 4-3 conversions. The Lyndale one is such an improvement


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Dedicated turn lanes are good, actually.

Figure out what to do with the buses and get it done.

The lack of supply is driving up prices to the point a lot of people are either having to put up with living in condos and townhouses

Especially in the city, we are very short on townhomes, which lots of people like to live in because they don't want to be responsible for maintenance.

As someone not particularly enthused to add another 25-year old DSA member to the City Council, I hope someone at least gives Aurin a run for her money. If she wins and conducts herself like Andrew Johnson e.g. being a swing vote between the progressive* wing and the more moderate wing, she'll be a...

Thoughts and prayers for the Ward 12 residents about to be inundated with low-quality, but glossy, mailers funded by the chamber of commerce.

I live two blocks off Bryant. The whole time the construction was in progress none of us could figure out what the hell they were doing. Only after it progressed did we realize the bike lanes were ginormous, almost as big as the street. It's absurd. You've got a one-way narrow lane meandering down ...

Seems there were a lot more issues than "standard capacity fire trucks can't get through".

The "issues" could largely be solved by eliminating a few on-street parking spaces.

Berkshire Harthaway has shareholders though.

The slider / budget questions were really excellent (and kind of fun) - helps to visualize / quantify the magnitude of the tradeoffs that need to be made in a resource-constrained transit system. Also highlights the weirdness of "geographic equality" (which I read as heavily meaning east/...

I wouldn't bet on any of these restrictions passing (but what do I know).

I'm going to not terribly helpfully mention that there has been much criticism of that article as well. As for the DOJ enforcement, the Sherman Act requires an agreement in restraint of trade which makes enforcement against "tacit collusion" difficult. Might be a better spot for the FTC to...

What if we used LRT stations for emergency landing sites for space shuttles instead?

There's also a survivorship bias problem. These people are experts in how downtown currently is, but what's needed is a vision for what downtown can be and a recognition of what stands in the way (e.g., car infrastructure). ETA: Some of these are the very people who insisted on keeping four lanes on...

Aside from Sam Newberg, that list of members is pretty concerning. Hope they don't recommend free parking and wider streets.