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by COLSLAW5
December 7th, 2018, 7:18 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: C Line - Penn Avenue North Rapid Bus
Replies: 240
Views: 56493

Re: C Line - Penn Avenue North Rapid Bus

The information boards require a lot of work as well as installing and testing of all the signal priority systems. On top of that the electric buses and their charging stations have yet to start being delivered and installed.
by COLSLAW5
November 29th, 2018, 7:04 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Orange Line / 35W@94: Downtown to Crosstown Project
Replies: 1125
Views: 260108

Re: Orange Line (35W BRT) & Lake St Transit Access Project

Does anyone know if they've started procuring the actual buses yet? Hopefully they can get some experience with the full electric buses on the C Line before they commit to diesels for this. The electric buses for the C line are to start being delivered in the next month or so. The charging systems ...
by COLSLAW5
October 29th, 2018, 10:11 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: E Line Arterial BRT
Replies: 148
Views: 77147

Re: E Line ABRT

I think with all the new housing going up along University Ave. like the General Mills site as well as connecting the housing over there to the U of M with a hopefully more than only one bus every hour they really should extend it to cover the whole route of the 6. It would allow for more options fo...
by COLSLAW5
August 17th, 2018, 7:38 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Bike Share
Replies: 336
Views: 79929

Re: Bike Share

These stations are a nice way to control the additions of dockless bikes into our system. That said I think now that they are only $80 or so business or areas should be able to submit applications for hubs outside of their businesses. I am also very interested in how this will work with it not being...
by COLSLAW5
August 2nd, 2018, 10:56 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Bike Share
Replies: 336
Views: 79929

Re: Bike Share

You are right I misinterpreted what they meant by agreement. But Minneapolis and St. Paul are choosing to give exclusive contracts. Also forgot to add that Uber is a major investor in Lime and plans to add the ability for you to rent the bikes through the main Uber app as well. I like your idea abou...
by COLSLAW5
August 2nd, 2018, 8:59 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Bike Share
Replies: 336
Views: 79929

Re: Bike Share

I think the problem I now have is that NRMN is actually operated by a for profit business (Motivate) and that for profit business was just bought by Lyft. So basically Minneapolis and St Paul or Edina or Golden Valley these cities are giving sole operating rights to for profit companies. On top of t...