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Didn't someone here say they saw poor compliance with the test ones they built on 7th St N?

That side-running concept should be ruled out by the side road closures alone. That would absolutely divide the neighborhood in half.

City/county/DNR are working on getting needed easements for the rebuilt section from Arlington to Maryland. Once that's built (hopefully later this year or next) the trail will connect through to Cayuga and beyond.

There's just no way that a 4-3 conversion of Lyndale is going to be able to handle the volume of traffic that the street has to handle. Take an honest look at the car queuing needs at lights throughout this stretch. It's going to make people livid. I think you're completely right here on the effect...

I was told by someone who should know that the chargers "literally melted."

While it's no way to plan/build a transit system, there is absolutely a political element of "geographic parity" or whatever you want to call it, that is going to be expected by suburban legislators and the city/county officials that lobby them. Note too that the $25M in existing federal ...

The Transportation bill just passed includes the $10m match for the second train to Chicago.

Meanwhile, NYT reporting lumber prices falling back to earth: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/21/busi ... price.html

The most recent example that comes to mind is I Like You moving from 1st Ave NE to Johnson St. The first interview with the owner said that they were moving because the neighborhood had changed and become too bustling (a nightmare scenario for a gift shop, I guess), but then a few weeks later she a...

Right. They're way more likely to lose customers by blaming crime and unrest than by saying "Uptown is too expensive, come visit us on Grand."

It’s about 100’, give or take. Still fairly narrow, but feasible.

Before anyone asks, Broadway in Robbinsdale is about 66' wide, which is just about impossible to fit surface LRT in unless the street becomes a pedestrian/transit mall.

https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-dfl-endorses-in-seven-council-races-fails-to-endorse-in-six/600066740/ Endorsements in 1 (Payne over Reich), 4 (Cunningham), 7 (Goodman), 8 (Jenkins), 9 (open, Chavez), 12 (Johnson), and 13 (Palmisano). Ellison (5) came within two points of losing the DFL endo...

You can see a lot of curbs in this drone video from about a month ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYpSngUXcs0

If Metro Transit took over some of the Red Line operating costs, I bet Dakota would let them extend it wherever they wanted.

Run the Red Line north as a hybrid arterial/highway BRT, and run C down Riverside and Franklin to the Green Line.

Right, no one goes to grocery stores with parking garages, which is why the Old St Anthony Lunds and downtown Whole Foods have been such abject failures.

Don't forget the Selby/Snelling Whole Foods, which definitely doesn't have a line out the door every day.

Does St. Paul not have unarmed traffic control like Minneapolis does? I don't think the Minneapolis ones are even in the Police Department; traffic control is part of Regulatory Services or something. Why would St. Paul send an off-duty sworn officer, rather than a traffic control agent? Why would ...

One more push for banning the caucus system forever because it's terrible and anti-democratic.

Yeah, but what isn't?

It's been closed for at least a few days.