urbanMSP

The Gold Line was always a dumb idea, but I was very hopeful for the Orange Line and have been pretty bummed out that it opened at the worst possible time.

Forgot about that!

Not that it couldn’t be changed, but most of that industrial land between 10th Avenue and West Broadway is marked as industrial (production and processing) in the 2040 plan and can’t easily be redeveloped into housing or other uses.

I think it’s under construction now? It looks like there’s work going on in the space.

Hard to be shocked lately but that story was wild—22 people dead on just the LA Metro since the beginning of the year following the effective legalization of fentanyl by people who got a 33 on the ACT. “We should try public art.” Thanks, Hilda!

Yeah, I mean the main point of the project at this point is teaching me personally that there’s no upside to being right about things and no downside to being wrong about things. Which they could have done for less than $3 billion :-/

Fun fact: I had Bob “Again” Carney, Jr. as a substitute teacher in high school.

Looks like the windows on the reopened Zelo space are frosted (or whatever) for the bottom two-thirds or so. Can’t see in or out when walking on the street.

Wasn’t a different seafood place supposed to be opening back up in the McCormick & Schmick’s spot?

Free idea: defund the Humphrey school.

Which reminds me: does anyone want the forum? I believe I got billed for it again last month.

Sounds like they’re going to start popping some pedestrian refuges in the middle of Washington Avenue. I thought this was a pretty good example of communication:

https://vimeo.com/790512374

Let the cops make arrests. This is not complicated.

They should make it look as much like a Medieval Times as possible.

I was on the train last week and people were doing the crackhouse thing, and cops in fact did get on, they told those people to get off, the cops stayed on the train, and I can say with reasonable confidence that they just got on the next train. I was similarly on a crackhouse train on Monday. Schoo...

The Ziprail thing was very funny.

I thought this made a lot of sense:

https://www.slowboring.com/p/amtrak-sho ... good-train

Ooh, good find. With the operator shortage, it would sure be nice if they could get more than one route per year through the Better Bus Routes program. And I'm not just saying that because the 11 is my route and I want it to be improved before 2026. Now that I think about it, I don’t think I’ve see...

One possibility is to arrest the people who are smoking crack on the train. Ten years ago, people were not smoking crack on the train in the middle of the day, due to the enforcement of rules regarding smoking crack on the train. Sometime after that, people (?) decided that we should allow people to...