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- May 4th, 2020, 8:07 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Future of the forum
- Replies: 66
- Views: 48648
Re: Future of the forum
I'd be happy to throw in $20 a year to help keep the whole thing simple, independent, and ad free. Sounds like we just need a volunteer administrator and a few people to throw in a little cash and maybe some beer for the person who volunteers to run it.
- April 29th, 2020, 1:31 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
- Replies: 1803
- Views: 1067576
Re: Bicycle Infrastructure
I do wonder why they didn't consider an underpass, which could be done with far less total gradient.
- April 29th, 2020, 1:30 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
- Replies: 1402
- Views: 628324
Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Forcing pedestrians and bikers to coexist in +13 feet of width is a bad idea. It isn't ideal, but it works well enough on Franklin. I think the key thing they got right on Franklin is to have bicycle traffic signed one way on each side, with a design that fairly successfully reinforces that. In a n...
- April 29th, 2020, 9:04 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Cable Median Barriers on at-grade highways
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3392
Re: Proposed Cable Median Barriers on at-grade highways
Whatever one's personal opinion about motorcycles may be, they are explicitly legal, licensed vehicles for interstate travel. As such, freeways designed for legal, licensed vehicles should be designed to be as safe as possible for vehicles so licensed.
- April 27th, 2020, 1:49 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Cable Median Barriers on at-grade highways
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3392
Re: Proposed Cable Median Barriers on at-grade highways
Cable median barriers are crazy dangerous for motorcyclists. While a motorcyclist in a crash will hit against a guard rail, they can get decapitated by cable median barriers. I was under the impression that they were generally discouraged for this reason. I think the solution to that is simple. Don...
- April 26th, 2020, 12:19 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Cable Median Barriers on at-grade highways
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3392
Re: Proposed Cable Median Barriers on at-grade highways
Cable median barriers are crazy dangerous for motorcyclists. While a motorcyclist in a crash will hit against a guard rail, they can get decapitated by cable median barriers. I was under the impression that they were generally discouraged for this reason.
- April 26th, 2020, 8:08 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
- Replies: 720
- Views: 224415
Re: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
I mean, it's kind of absurd to contrast the Greenway with the Hiawatha Trail and come to the conclusion that it's the grass that makes the Greenway more popular. It may be a factor, but let me list a few other possible factors: * The Greenway is wider than Hiawatha * The Greenway has a consistent as...
- April 24th, 2020, 8:30 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
- Replies: 681
- Views: 327701
Re: Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
In principle I agree with you, but there are several houses with driveways directly on the parkway.Why is West River Parkway open to vehicles at all? It doesn't provide access to anything that other roads don't. Just close it all.
- April 24th, 2020, 8:27 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
- Replies: 720
- Views: 224415
Re: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
Yes, and there's plenty of study demonstrating that there's enough space for that too. The MGC seems to let themselves get sidetracked by the most mundane details of the Greenway as-is: I know there's been opposition to removing the sloping sides and replacing them with retaining walls to better acc...
- April 23rd, 2020, 8:16 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
- Replies: 720
- Views: 224415
Re: B Line Lake St Rapid Bus, Midtown Rail Transit
I mean, to be fair to them, those decisions were made more than twenty years ago, when the Greenway itself was a wild place with no legal use to speak of (and a track spur still present, though unused, to my understanding), and there was no passenger rail operating in the Twin Cities. I suspect that...
- April 23rd, 2020, 4:20 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Nicollet-Central Streetcar
- Replies: 887
- Views: 141474
Re: Nicollet-Central Streetcar
Looks like the link to their old streetcar "study" is still there, it was done in 2001. It's a PDF so watch out: 2001 MGC Streetcar study EDIT: Boo, looks like the link is bad. Wayback Machine to the rescue! Archive.org copy of 2001 MGC Streetcar study And if you really want to nerd out, t...
- April 23rd, 2020, 2:24 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Nicollet-Central Streetcar
- Replies: 887
- Views: 141474
Re: Nicollet-Central Streetcar
I will grant you that I have no idea why the Midtown study decided to call their proposed LRT line a streetcar, except possibly to signal that it was not intended to be a useful transit project. This has a lot to do with the specific history of Hennepin County Railroad Authority, Midtown Greenway C...
- April 21st, 2020, 10:53 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
- Replies: 681
- Views: 327701
Re: Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
Anecdotally, at least around the lakes, the real problem seems to be the runners, who are all over the blessed place and too close to everybody. Frankly, as a runner this is tough. We're out there 365 days a year and have our set routes, and every year about this time we have to deal with an influx...
- April 21st, 2020, 10:45 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: E Line Arterial BRT
- Replies: 148
- Views: 75260
Re: E Line Arterial BRT
The fact that we waste money on unnecessary highway infrastructure isn't in itself an argument in favor of wasting money on unnecessary transit infrastructure. Both should be designed to shape and concentrate use into nodes that make for efficient movement. Before the modernist planning era gave us ...
- April 20th, 2020, 7:56 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
- Replies: 681
- Views: 327701
Re: Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
So W River Parkway has a traffic lane closed to cars so people can socially distance while using the parkway. As a runner I *love* running in the street but recognize that it's better to have the bikes there, but was surprised to see the Park Board has signs up saying that the sidewalk and the stree...
- April 20th, 2020, 7:42 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: E Line Arterial BRT
- Replies: 148
- Views: 75260
Re: E Line Arterial BRT
Grids are inherently inefficient. You want a hub and spoke system. What we're missing is a couple radial lines to allow moving from one spoke to another spoke without going all the way in to the hub.
- April 15th, 2020, 12:53 pm
- Forum: Updates - Announcements - Problems - Suggestions
- Topic: Forum Integration Committee
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11907
Re: Forum Integration Committee
I was on Minnescraper back when that was a thing, and on UrbanMSP from its start. I don't want or need anybody's integration, board of directors, mission statement, etc. Frankly I don't read streets.mn on a regular basis. A "comment policy" sounds like a recipe for forums to become the Sta...
- March 19th, 2020, 12:46 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: MPS Comprehensive District Design
- Replies: 39
- Views: 46514
Re: MPS Comprehensive District Design
Yes, that's a really key point - a lot of liberal wealthy people are "public school" philosophically, but that doesn't mean they'll take big risks about the quality of their kids' schools. They'll stay in the public schools as long as they're allowed to select a school they think is good e...
- March 16th, 2020, 11:17 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Work from home and road congestion
- Replies: 28
- Views: 8584
Re: Work from home and road congestion
Remember that working from home means more energy use, not less, because an office is easier to heat/cool than a hundred private residences. Some British researchers found that even with saved energy from transportation, telecommuting uses more energy than offices during the winter in Britain. Telec...
- March 13th, 2020, 3:03 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2953
- Views: 733824
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
We'll see how that holds up when the rideshare companies have to stop bleeding money.