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Metro Transit workers authorize strike: https://kstp.com/kstp-news/local-news/results-pending-in-metro-transit-strike-authorization-vote/ Should we be concerned with this? This is pretty common, the last negotiations they authorized a strike as well, but then the Council and ATU came to an agreemen...

I expect they'll skip I?

I think so, yeah. They've requested bonding money to plan and build the J, K, and L Lines, but no I.

Yeah I think they are skipping that due to it looking too much like the number 1.

This comment could go in the aBRT thread or here, but I wonder if going with lettered rapid lines instead of numbers is going to seem like a good idea long-term, once we're in the middle of the alphabet. Instead of A-K (minus I), the first ten aBRT routes could have been labeled Routes 1-10. Obviou...

I am also assuming there is a soft plan to try to roll over the green line project office staff into this project. That should help keep it moving as well as you don't have to start from scratch like they did with southwest because of the gap in time between it and central corridor. Sounds like we ...

New Starbucks Pickup in City Center


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Any word on the amount of space

I can't find anything specifically on them, but suite 1400 directly below 1500 has 4,000 - 16,838 sq ft according to Officespace.

Rainbow Health is moving into the 701 Tower in downtown Minneapolis!


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Green Line Extension funding gap has been filled by the Met Council and Hennepin County.

I'm getting a lot of emails, even though I have email notifications turned off after the upgrade.

It seems to be good now.

I'm starting to hope this whole Blue Line extension project collapses based on the new, proposed route. The route past Robinsdale down the middle of a 6-lane stroad is awful, and now the North Minneapolis routing is looking pretty bad. I fear the route along 10th and 21st Avenues will make access f...

Atrocious in terms of reliability, price, or something else? I've only used Connect once and it was just to try it out. Seems like it can work well instead of very low-frequency fixed routes, but only if they have the drivers and buses to meet the demand. Reliability and Price. It is more expensive...

Lots of cuts to local MVTA service beginning September 5th. https://www.mvta.com/news/sept-5-services-change-trimming-some-local-trip-times-suspending-route-479/?fbclid=IwAR0hdbIW-5QiXiyJEXry_ZEAUY8JpT39q5UgVZ96Z8Ff2Ebfb0BuB8kUXco Also some small routing changes and a few additional southbound trip...

I'm getting a lot of emails, even though I have email notifications turned off after the upgrade.

I'd rather have 30-minute frequency than 0, as long as it doesn't take away the high frequency service on the Green Line between the downtowns. I agree with Silophant, I definitely don't think Metro Transit is in a place currently where expanding service is possible. Also, you don't build LRT and t...

What do people think about adding another station on 7th street just north of Olson/6th? Would be a good transfer point for both the C and D lines, but current land use around the station is very poor and it is less than .5 miles from target field station. And of course there is a travel time penal...

Is there a technical reason why they chose James over Emerson/Fremont? Is the stop spacing too close? I can't imagine that the headways would be short enough for that to be a problem. IIRC, I believe the Emerson to Fremont block is too short for a 3-car station. But the Lyndale block is the same le...

Robbinsdale did elect a pro Blue Line Extension city council in 2022, so I see no issue there.


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Staff Recommendation from today’s Corridor Management Committee.


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The footage really drives home how much of SWLRT is running through undevelopable wetlands, along highways, and industrial areas. And it's pretty stunning how little they have done north/east of Hopkins. I believe there are some developments proposed for some of the wetlands already. Sent from my i...

I saw some folks discussing an important point about Rethinking 94 that I hadn't considered yet: if a "Twin Cities Boulevard" conversion is the way this goes (which I think is a low-likelihood anyway,) it could actually be worse for the urban fabric than a freeway. Think of how huge a bar...