urbanMSP

I'm wavering about this. The Central Corridor will be a rock star, but the next two lines seem like such cop-outs. We want rail transit, but we're not willing to make the hard trade-offs to make it good. It doesn't even seem like money is the biggest limiting factor. No public officials (Matt Look ...

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Any chance this gets tied to the transit proposal? If it were rebuilt with medians, would it be feasible to simply use them as center island stops for a streetcar or enhanced bus?

If NIMBYs from this small of a neighborhood can delay a project and make it cost this much, I don't even want to think about how much any kind of uptown alignment would cost. Planners assumed overwhelming support and few technical challenges for the current alignment and rushed ahead. I'm not willin...

Were there EP representatives at this meeting? I was noticing that it seems like a lot of the delay and extra cost could come from the mitchell road station. Did they have any comment on this or are they OK with scrapping it for now? On a similar vein, what was the reaction from Minneapolis? I reall...