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- March 3rd, 2024, 8:54 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 576517
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Look, I know LRT is best for Riverview, but quite a few of you are making perfect be the enemy of good. I think there should instead be a focus on the options Ramsey County has put on the table and advocating for the best one, which is Streetcar Option 1. It's not LRT, but it's pretty close to it w...
- March 2nd, 2024, 9:40 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Suburban Transit (Opt-out Services Providers)
- Replies: 140
- Views: 177374
Re: Suburban Transit (Opt-out Services Providers)
I don't see it as a shame to shut down a route that was part of the much bigger Route 494 failure. To me it's a shame money is being burned on these experiments that are doomed to fail, especially the express routes that pretty much only serve suburban park & rides and light commercial/industria...
- March 2nd, 2024, 6:34 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 576517
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Look, I know LRT is best for Riverview, but quite a few of you are making perfect be the enemy of good. I think there should instead be a focus on the options Ramsey County has put on the table and advocating for the best one, which is Streetcar Option 1. It's not LRT, but it's pretty close to it wi...
- February 29th, 2024, 9:33 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Suburban Transit (Opt-out Services Providers)
- Replies: 140
- Views: 177374
Re: Suburban Transit (Opt-out Services Providers)
MVTA service changes March 16th. https://www.mvta.com/news-items/mvta-service-schedules-adjust-on-march-16/ Highlights: 4Fun Bus returns with service operating Thursday-Sunday, and stops added at the Twin Cities Premium Outlet Mall in Eagan and Omry Apartments at Canterbury Park in Shakopee. Route 4...
- February 29th, 2024, 9:06 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 576517
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Streetcar isn't perfect, but it's not doom and gloom like people seem to be implying. Of all the modern streetcar lines in the country I think this would be one of the best. Way better than the short-route streetcars that are only intended to attract development rather than upgrade transit service. ...
- February 28th, 2024, 7:55 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 576517
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Did anyone attend last evening's CAC meeting? I was on a plane so couldn't. Just curious of the discussions that took place.
- February 25th, 2024, 9:19 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Embarrassing Confessions of Urbanists
- Replies: 349
- Views: 109737
Re: Embarrassing Confessions of Urbanists
I used to be quite a car guy and loved driving. Like most Americans I felt a sense of freedom having a driver's license and a car, until all the costs associated with car ownership plus grueling traffic everyday became too much. On top of that when I studied in Oslo, Noway in 2015 I felt more freedo...
- February 24th, 2024, 7:35 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 576517
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
The Riverview Corridor meeting slides for next week are up. They focus on the Arterial BRT option which would be similar to the 54 bus. It is modeled to have 8,000 riders per day in 2040 at a cost of $121 million and a 40 min travel time. Obviously this is much cheaper as it is mixed-traffic and wo...
- February 18th, 2024, 5:16 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2953
- Views: 749211
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Metro Transit March 16th, 2024 service changes: https://www.metrotransit.org/quarterly-service-changes-begin-saturday-march-16 83 - Extended to Rosedale and no longer stops at Roseville Target; uses Lexington instead of I-35E on south end of route. Considering the main reason the 83 was traveling d...
- February 18th, 2024, 5:09 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Northstar Commuter Rail
- Replies: 952
- Views: 245346
Re: Northstar Commuter Rail
By that time it should be a full-fledged regional rail service on par with the likes of UTA's Frontrunner.2036-2038 implementation is absolute BSNew Northstar Study has dropped. https://www.dot.state.mn.us/passengerra ... index.html
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- February 18th, 2024, 4:47 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Fantasy maps
- Replies: 310
- Views: 154956
Re: Fantasy maps
Thinking longer term with a network of regional and intercity trains, even if Target Field Station can somehow be expanded beyond what's proposed for NLX there's still the issue of the freight traffic on the existing rail corridor through there, and that rail corridor is squeezed in with new develop...
- February 18th, 2024, 4:38 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development
- Replies: 219
- Views: 93783
Re: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development
So, how did it work out with the city squandering the money of hard-working taxpayers trying to get "just a normal city" there? So you're already deeming it a failure because a grocery store closed? Let's wait and see what happens to the grocery store space, and the area in general before...
- February 15th, 2024, 4:26 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development
- Replies: 219
- Views: 93783
Re: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development
https://www.startribune.com/a-grocery-store-was-supposed-to-make-a-neighborhood-near-the-mall-of-america-it-closed-in-less-than-four-months/600343491/ Strib article. Seems Bloomington city management had a really niave and iddyllic vision of creating their idea of an urban utopia from scratch and a...
- February 11th, 2024, 1:42 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 576517
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Keep in mind the $2 billion is in 2033 dollars, not today’s dollars.
Since we’re building LRT to the southwest and northwest suburbs, I don’t see why West 7th doesn’t deserve LRT.
Since we’re building LRT to the southwest and northwest suburbs, I don’t see why West 7th doesn’t deserve LRT.
- February 8th, 2024, 4:18 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Transit Crime
- Replies: 280
- Views: 1047958
Re: Transit Crime
Perhaps also roll out some PSAs showing the cleaning crews who have to clean up other people's messes on buses, trains, and stations. Like smoking, it confounds me that so many people just don't care about littering on our taxpayer funded vehicles and stations. I also wonder if having small trash bi...
- February 7th, 2024, 10:54 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Transit Crime
- Replies: 280
- Views: 1047958
Re: Transit Crime
I mean smoking on a train/bus probably should be a prosecutable offense but I think a busy and focused DA office should be spending their energy and attention elsewhere on far more serious offenses. Even if some is caught dead to rights for smoking a cigarette on a train (multiple witnesses, video ...
- February 7th, 2024, 1:54 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Transit Crime
- Replies: 280
- Views: 1047958
Re: Transit Crime
Is smoking on the train a non-prosecutable offense? It should be since it's a health and fire hazard. The latter probably isn't likely, but lighting a cigarette requires fire, and god forbid that tiny flame somehow turns into an inferno.
- February 5th, 2024, 3:36 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2953
- Views: 749211
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
A reminder that the zoo monorail was not removed because it was inherently bad or poorly performing at its purported mobility function - they literally couldn't service the equipment because decades later, no companies remained in business to repair or replace things as they broke. The Hyperloop wo...
- January 31st, 2024, 10:26 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 576517
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Both options assume mixed traffic operations north of Grand, and it sounds like the push is for less dedicated right of way, not more. I'm well aware of the mixed-traffic operations being proposed, and as I mentioned earlier in the thread Ramsey County planners seem to be leaning towards the option...
- January 31st, 2024, 7:32 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 576517
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
I recall that they are looking at using the smaller 80-foot long Siemens LRV and I would imagine that the stations would be designed for that. In my opinion, they should at least use the 90-foot version for interoperability. Agreed. It would be absolutely foolish not to use the same exact LRVs we u...