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PPL proposes demolishing 6 renter-occupied duplexes in the Cottageville Park neighborhood of Hopkins, near the future light rail station on Blake Road and building a four story affordable housing apartment. Some locals are pitching a fit on the Patch website. http://hopkins.patch.com/groups/business...

The photo at the following link is an aerial photo taken for the Minnehaha Creek Watershed district's remeandering project. The project is returning the creek back to the natural flow, removing the straightening that was done decades ago when it was thought that would help flooding. The end of the p...

I would rather find a way to get the freight line out permanently, but being a tremendous fan of the High Line in NYC, I like this perspective of the elevated trail option. http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentaries/219052991.html The tl;dr summary, an elevated bike path above the rails through...

Hiawatha; Hennepin and Dakota, so there was even more cooperation needed.

Fairly certain Hiawatha doesn't touch Dakota county, it is entirely contained in Hennepin County. There is a bus rapid transit into Dakota that was tacked on years later but it was not part of the Hiawatha LRT line.

^^ Yes, the Dean Parkway path in the blvd. It's hooorrribbblllee. Pot holes the whole way. I've been trying to find Thatcher's reroute idea that your talking about for 30 mins. No luck. Link or something? https://forum.streets.mn/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=5&start=880#p30873 Specifically, the sec...

I'll admit, the Dean-Sunset-France-Inglewood trail relocation could grow on me. Maybe some good could come of it, helping the France-Lake neighborhood's redevelopment as part of Saint Louis Park's desire to turn County 25 from highway to city street. There was a recent article on three highways no o...

I recall when the tunnel boring machine that dug out the tunnel beneath the airport some suggested the machine be kept in town and made to dig a grid of tunnels beneath Minneapolis, just keep it on and running around and around to get ready for the day we would be ready to use them. Heh. Probably co...

Seems Shakopee is racing to fill in with these things, and anything, to get this on the tax rolls. Or rather more importantly to halt any property from being taken OFF the tax rolls when/if "The Community" expands again.

If LRT work could piggyback the imminent TH 100 rebuild, here is sketch of the broader area of a TH 100 concept. Red line is the Brunswick relocation option. Orange line is colocation option. Yellow is a TH 100 LRT option, with Blue line is an alternate line that replaces the frontage road. 1- Woodd...

Maybe the freight line could be put in the median of 100? Especially if 100 is going to be reconstructed... That would come back to the same issues with freight in the Brunswick options through SLP, that is that the elevation changes for freight rail would be too great. Freight elevation changes gr...

Here is an alternate alignment suggestion. Consider that TH 100 is getting a remake from 36th to Cedar Lake Road in SLP especially to widen it. Why not piggy back this epically delayed traffic project to route the SWLRT along. After the Wooddale station, the line would follow the west side of TH 100...

We need to question this logic and approach. Other than waiting until suburbs create the transit density you expect BEFORE they get transit options, what are your answers? Because I'm just thinking it is going to be something you would end up railing against even more, "Building density where ...

Judging by furniture on balconies, this looks to be about full already.

So you are saying people really want to live in this area? Someone tell the Mayor of SLP, he asked the developer of an adjacent parcel to reduce the number of units. (Dummy)

Also recall removing homes (purportedly necessary) was a reason given for not aligning another line thru North. It's not a problem on one, at all, but on the other it's a deal breaker. I'd think it a rather collosal big deal with the collective memory about removing homes in minority-concentrated n...

That *is* important, and eliminating someone's home should be considered if it can be avoided for minimal cost. But it shouldn't stop any project when alternatives are either to not do it or to do it with prohibitively expensive alternatives, the homeowners should be given fair market value though.

I just don't see what's so important about these townhomes that they would trump the Kenilworth trail. Agreed. I suppose the route down Sunset and at grade crossing of France and Lake with a mystery link back to the trail doesn't require land aquisition and property demolition, so they put it out t...

This past March Hopkins presented to the public its city plan for biking and pedestrians in the city. It is remarkably comprehensive and highlights the city's focus on developing "complete streets". I attended the revealing of the plan and got to speak with the authors and some of the city...

A reasonable trail option might be to construct a floating wood boardwalk. As an example, the Westwood Nature Center in St. Louis Park uses this through its swamp and marshland and has worked excellently for decades. But a such a trail on the west side of 169 there would also serve the apartments ju...

I'm pleased the Blake Station is leaving Lucé intact and is driving the trail into a tunnel crossing. Frightening crossing that. And I see the ROW the city hopes to acquire to start the road they've wanted to provide access to the interior of this mega block. Hopkins' East End vision has this block ...

The Excelsior crossing shows the bike trail crossing at Excelsior being eliminated. I believe Three Rivers is even advocating that because of all the bike crossing problems, I've seen so many cyclists take a tumble when their tires get caught in the freight rail tracks. Seems all trail traffic will ...