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- March 10th, 2020, 2:44 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: MPS Comprehensive District Design
- Replies: 39
- Views: 46915
Re: MPS Comprehensive District Design
No, that's probably right. It's surprising to me, as it appears to be undercutting a functional school. The big news is obviously the Southwest to North shift, but the South to Roosevelt one is a bit puzzling.
- March 10th, 2020, 8:07 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: MPS Comprehensive District Design
- Replies: 39
- Views: 46915
Re: MPS Comprehensive District Design
So basically they're radically changing the boundaries of their two most successful schools - South and Southwest - and sending most of the families formerly in those attendance areas to schools that have struggled more - Roosevelt and North. My neighborhood will shift from South to Roosevelt even t...
- March 5th, 2020, 3:11 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
- Replies: 1402
- Views: 632662
Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Maybe it's because I grew up in a terrible outer suburb of Saint Louis at the height of sprawl, but I can't imagine a speed limit below 25 mph would be even vaguely achievable. Even 25 won't be enforced until the driver gets close to 10 over.
- February 25th, 2020, 6:02 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Root District - Farmers Market / Royalston Station
- Replies: 81
- Views: 62751
Re: Root District - Farmers Market / Royalston Station
So I'm struggling to understand this "district". When I think of the Warehouse District and the Mill District, both former industrial areas turned urban neighborhoods, the revitalization started with conversions of existing old, interesting industrial buildings into lofts and creative comm...
- February 25th, 2020, 5:42 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Thrivent HQ & Moment apartments - 500 7th St & 650 Portland Ave
- Replies: 225
- Views: 409343
Re: Thrivent Headquarters Block - 6th St and Portland Ave
So I'm a big fan of trying to increase density over a larger area as opposed to building tall buildings for the sake of tall buildings, and honestly I was preparing to respond here that people shouldn't hate on 8-story medium density housing. Then I looked at the proposal and was reminded of this sp...
- February 19th, 2020, 2:04 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Mall of America Transit Station
- Replies: 146
- Views: 51525
Re: Mall of America Transit Station
A small little development, but it looks like the MOA Transit Station is getting a Caribou. Would love to see more stuff like this around our transit stations. https://twitter.com/mallofamerica/status/1229842090852528134 They should absolutely be incorporating retail into the busier stations. Build...
- February 3rd, 2020, 3:43 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Minneapolis Vehicle Equipment Violations
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7462
- January 30th, 2020, 12:00 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Minneapolis Vehicle Equipment Violations
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7462
Re: Minneapolis Vehicle Equipment Violations
Yeah, my issue with this is that it doesn't stop the practice of using minor equipment infractions as an excuse to pull somebody over and check for major violations. Several years ago a Park Police officer followed me on the River Parkway all the way from downtown to Lake Street at about 11 pm, and ...
- January 29th, 2020, 2:42 pm
- Forum: Saint Paul
- Topic: Saint Paul - General Topics
- Replies: 694
- Views: 407253
Re: Saint Paul - General Topics
Hope they find funds, it seems like a no brainer to me.
- January 15th, 2020, 4:50 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Amtrak: Empire Builder and Borealis (TCMC)
- Replies: 625
- Views: 406528
Re: Amtrak Empire Builder and Intercity Rail to Chicago
https://twitter.com/ByJanetMoore/status/1217571661224054784 I don't quite get how there can be $10M of environmental and design work for extending two Hiawatha trips from Milwaukee to St Paul (according to the feasibility study from like a decade ago), but, hey, potential progress! Many years ago I...
- January 15th, 2020, 4:40 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5287
- Views: 1288397
Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)
I would like our Engineering teams to acknowledge that many politicians will not sacrifice maximum car movement for the sake of transit operations. They should then design transit projects so that poor political decisions will have minimal negative effect on transit operations. This is where we sho...
- January 14th, 2020, 1:30 pm
- Forum: Saint Paul
- Topic: Hamline Station - (1333 University Avenue)
- Replies: 57
- Views: 29094
Re: Hamline Station - (1333 University Avenue)
Wow, look at that property tax bill. That's per year. That's amazing.
- January 13th, 2020, 3:45 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5287
- Views: 1288397
Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)
It's striking how much more willing they are to build expensive bridges to grade separate this line out in wealthy suburbia than they were to do the same for the two dense lines running in the core. Imagine how much cleaner the Snelling / University intersection would be if they'd built a tunnel or ...
- December 11th, 2019, 10:15 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: Minneapolis Population / Density - General Discussion
- Replies: 334
- Views: 176238
Re: Minneapolis City Planning Commission
So I haven't read the charter in years and am apparently too lazy to look. Given the huge population increase that's happened since 2000, is there a mechanism to consider adding an altogether new ward, rather than allowing the number of people per councilmember to rise so substantially?
- December 6th, 2019, 10:19 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2953
- Views: 737399
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Nope, they'll be a plastic copy - carbon is more expensiveI don’t think the final design will be a carbon copy of the test ones.
- December 4th, 2019, 2:01 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
- Topic: Dinky "tower" - McDonalds redevelopment
- Replies: 49
- Views: 48430
Re: Dinkytower - McDonalds redevelopment
I'm most impressed by the staff recommended denial of the FAR, because they go to the trouble to (a) specifically call out the new Minneapolis 2040 plan and how this could have been made to comply with it; and (b) point to the massing of the building as a specific reason for not supporting the ten-s...
- December 2nd, 2019, 4:23 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Hiawatha-Lake - Minnehaha - Downtown Longfellow
- Replies: 316
- Views: 373215
Re: Hi-Lake - Minnehaha Mall (Target/Cub) - Downtown Longfellow
So maybe this was discussed under some different thread or name but I can't find evidence of it. Since this project is right by my house and works toward reducing the acres of needless parking lots that dominate the highly-promising intersection of Minnehaha and Lake, I dug into this a bit. I'm a bi...
- November 25th, 2019, 10:38 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: C Line - Penn Avenue North Rapid Bus
- Replies: 240
- Views: 55504
- November 20th, 2019, 2:00 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
- Topic: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics
- Replies: 964
- Views: 357712
Re: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics
Brought to you by the Vikings?Party barge
- November 20th, 2019, 1:28 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: MSP Airport / Metropolitan Airports Commission
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 366524
Re: MSP Airport
I had flights to both New Jersey and Chicago on Delta this year that flew out of the B concourse. Sadly the New Jersey flight had been scheduled on a new A220 out of the C concourse but was delayed (because EWR is *always* delayed) and so I switched to a CRJ-900 flight out of the B concourse. I'd be...