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- December 8th, 2021, 4:04 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Hennepin Avenue Reconstruction (Douglas to Lake St)
- Replies: 433
- Views: 207539
Re: Hennepin Avenue Reconstruction (Douglas to Lake St)
It's interesting to see they're cutting off left turns on NB Hennepin to Franklin. It seems the alternative there is taking a left at 22nd. Similarly, they're making NB access to Kowalski's via 24th and converting that one-block stretch of Fremont back to two-way traffic. It's hard for me to believ...
- December 7th, 2021, 9:03 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: RBC Gateway & Four Seasons - 37 stories - 519'
- Replies: 2124
- Views: 507616
Re: RBC Gateway (Four Seasons) - 37 stories - 519'
I'm excited to see how the lighting turns out.
- November 29th, 2021, 9:32 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
- Replies: 1402
- Views: 628068
Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Removing the Olson name--especially to restore a colorless designation like "6th Ave N," which no one alive today remembers at all--seems unnecessarily polarizing for what is already going to be an enormous lift. There's still plenty of affection for Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson out there.
- November 25th, 2021, 9:30 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line LRT
- Replies: 629
- Views: 256140
Re: Blue Line (Hiawatha LRT)
Would that block the wind at all? Doesn't seem to offer a lot of visibility for the trade-off.
- November 19th, 2021, 9:28 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
- Replies: 1402
- Views: 628068
Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Saying that the counties won these grants is not quite right. MnDOT applied for and won those grants, it's just that the projects are located within those counties. In fact the counties often have very little to do with MnDOT projects such as these, where the cities generally take the lead in partne...
- November 17th, 2021, 11:02 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: MPHA Family Housing Expansion
- Replies: 13
- Views: 26463
Re: MPHA Family Housing Expansion
My recollection is that MPHA is several hundred units below its Faircloth limit (6393).
- November 17th, 2021, 7:47 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: MPHA Family Housing Expansion
- Replies: 13
- Views: 26463
Re: MPHA Family Housing Expansion
Probably less of a PITA than the existing SFH scattered sites, though.
- November 12th, 2021, 8:56 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Midtown Greenway Trail [not the transit thread]
- Replies: 108
- Views: 44609
Re: Midtown Greenway Trail [not the transit thread]
It's not even a good surface for a driveway.
- November 4th, 2021, 6:20 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 999741
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Those are some pretty substantial property impacts. Either of those might be the most destructive public project in North since 94.
- November 3rd, 2021, 6:43 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)
- Replies: 733
- Views: 360041
- November 2nd, 2021, 2:55 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2953
- Views: 733623
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
I don't think underserving Thomas is a huge deal. People manage in between Fremont and Penn without needing a bus route in the middle of it. If we have to make cuts. This is a good cut There is a world of difference between those two examples, most notably because there is no north/south service we...
- October 27th, 2021, 10:44 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Nicollet-Lake - greater Kmart area
- Replies: 486
- Views: 316623
Re: Nicollet-Lake Area - to Kmart...and beyond!
Reconnecting Nicollet will probably require a new bridge across the Greenway too, no? At minimum serious rehabilitation of the existing bridge will be required to meet basic standards, and I'd be surprised if it's in any less need of near-term replacement than every other bridge along there.
- October 15th, 2021, 9:07 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
- Replies: 1803
- Views: 1067344
Re: Bicycle Infrastructure
Just biked the new alignment on 1st Ave S from 28th to 15th. It is now a 2-way bike avenue on the west side of the street. Painted line protection from 28th to Franklin, and then parked cars between you and traffic from Franklin to 15th. I like the arrangement much more than the skinny bike lane on...
- October 3rd, 2021, 12:39 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Target Center Renovation
- Replies: 548
- Views: 131618
Re: Target Center Renovation
"HERC isn't sustainable" is true in the sense that it creates a lot of emissions, but the real culprit here is how much garbage we create as a society which leaves few good alternatives to incineration. Landfills are worse on an emissions basis and they are certainly more directly environm...
- September 24th, 2021, 2:14 pm
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Minneapolis City Politics General Discussion
- Replies: 430
- Views: 152348
Re: Minneapolis City Politics General Discussion
I don't think splitting Cedar-Riverside in half would be a good look, though.
- September 20th, 2021, 8:26 am
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Minneapolis 2021 Elections - Mayor, City Council, BET, Park Board
- Replies: 167
- Views: 62128
Re: Minneapolis 2021 Elections - Mayor, City Council, BET, Park Board
Hard to keep elected officials when people camping on their boulevard and hurling insults at them and their children becomes an accepted practice.First, Bender's retiring, leaving defunders without a clear leader for the future (I really can't stand that Bender's retiring. Follow through.)
- September 20th, 2021, 8:24 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2953
- Views: 733623
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Ridership on the 61 has been very middling at best. It was briefly scoped in Network Next for an ABRT route, but it fell to the wayside very quickly. I imagine good service on Como-Maryland will go further toward reducing some of the crosstown demand on the 61.
- September 16th, 2021, 7:58 am
- Forum: Saint Paul
- Topic: Saint Paul Districts and Neighborhoods
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7013
Re: Saint Paul Districts and Neighborhoods
Aside from the district council boundaries, all of the neighborhood designations are pretty informal, and I don't think a lot of residents would be able to name them easily.
- August 24th, 2021, 7:51 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Nicollet Ave / Eat Street - Whittier, Stevens, Loring Park
- Replies: 225
- Views: 138606
Re: Nicollet Ave / Eat Street - Whittier, Stevens, Loring Park
But don't worry, we've figured out everything that was right and wrong about previous top-down renewal projects and this time we're going to do it right.Funny, what's currently there was part of a similar 'coordinated plan' of the 1970s.
- August 13th, 2021, 2:00 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
- Replies: 720
- Views: 224312
Re: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
Lake Street is not going to be reconstructed for this project. And with or without bike lanes on this section of Lake Street, not doing a 4-3 conversion locks you into a double-threat situation for crossing pedestrians. There's a good reason these four-lane undivided roads are disappearing throughou...