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- March 7th, 2024, 1:42 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1015516
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
I've always really liked the idea someone pitched on streets.mn tenish years ago of completing the wye in Cedar-Riverside, allowing (Teal Line?) trains to go directly from the Hiawatha tracks to the Washington tracks. Allows direct connections from campus to the airport, and enables increased freque...
- February 28th, 2024, 12:40 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Amtrak: Empire Builder and Borealis (TCMC)
- Replies: 631
- Views: 411797
Re: Amtrak: Empire Builder and Borealis (TCMC)
All Aboard Minnesota has an update in their Q1 Newsletter. Still no start date, but apparently operating agreements are nearing completion. The service will be named the Borealis. Thematically appropriate if the long-term intent is to combine it with NLX once that gets going.
- February 27th, 2024, 9:32 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
- Replies: 2032
- Views: 826326
Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
I really like the idea of a rink in Gateway Park. And it might be easier to fund it there than elsewhere - as the only normal MPRB park (the riverfront stuff is a regional park, and the Commons is a whole separate district) in the Downtown West neighborhood, it's the only place that the park dedicat...
- February 20th, 2024, 10:05 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Amtrak: Long-distance trains
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1878
Re: Amtrak: Long-distance trains
As for the study, I'd been waiting for it to come out, but I was surprised to see three separate MSP-points south trains in addition to the restored Chicago-Seattle North Coast Hiawatha, which is in a little more advanced stage of planning - it got a $500k FRA grant from the BIL a couple months ago....
- February 20th, 2024, 10:00 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Amtrak: Empire Builder and Borealis (TCMC)
- Replies: 631
- Views: 411797
Re: Amtrak: Empire Builder and Great River (TCMC)
Mod note: split discussion of the FRA Long-Distance study off to its own thread.
- February 20th, 2024, 9:58 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Amtrak: Long-distance trains
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1878
Re: Amtrak: Empire Builder and Great River (TCMC)
This is the FRA running a study for recommended long-distance train routes, which theoretically could be operated by any entity, but Amtrak is the only passenger rail organization in the US that can (relatively) easily operate on the various host railroads' tracks, and also the only one that's run a...
- February 20th, 2024, 9:34 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Northstar Commuter Rail
- Replies: 952
- Views: 245310
Re: Northstar Commuter Rail
This almost reads to me like malicious compliance with the legislative directive. Appendix B clarifies that it's just an update of the pre-pandemic study from 2020, adding more St. Cloud service on top of the six daily Big Lake-Mpls roundtrips, all during peak am and pm hours, with all the rolling s...
- February 19th, 2024, 11:37 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News
- Replies: 239
- Views: 182017
Re: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News
Might have been a pandemic change to all of them? I just clicked around the HyVee website, and 6-11pm seems to be the standard hours now in (outstate) MN, SD, and IA. For comparison, there's still a few 24 hour Cub Foods around, but most of them seems to be 5am to midnight.
- February 13th, 2024, 9:15 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Root District - Farmers Market / Royalston Station
- Replies: 81
- Views: 64657
Re: Root District - Farmers Market / Royalston Station
According to this BIHZ committee item , the modular housing factory is now slated for 1400 Washington Ave N. Seems like a better bet - still pretty central and transit accessible, but isn't a truck-heavy industrial use directly adjacent to an LRT station. On a similar note, Modist Brewing bought 301...
- February 12th, 2024, 7:39 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
- Topic: 200 Central (2019) - 293' / 27 Stories
- Replies: 72
- Views: 94866
Re: 200 Central (2019) - 293' / 27 Stories
Walked by last night, and there's an excavator and a construction trailer on site. This might actually be breaking ground, very nearly a decade after the first proposal and 4.5 years after the revised version was pitched?
Wild.
Wild.
- January 30th, 2024, 7:02 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 576441
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Notably, there are not four tracks at Target Field, where this very same system has two services interlining. There's storage space past the last platform, sure, but Union Depot has that too, a whole maintenance facility's worth. I'm perfectly willing to buy the junction at 5th and Cedar being chall...
- January 27th, 2024, 11:30 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Northstar Commuter Rail
- Replies: 952
- Views: 245310
Re: Northstar Commuter Rail
Remember that, even though it's not moving particularly quickly, the NLX project received a big chunk of state funding last year, and includes a Foley Blvd station. The Met Council isn't going to stand up a separate project to build that for MnDOT on their own.
- January 9th, 2024, 9:07 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
- Replies: 1803
- Views: 1081683
Re: Bicycle Infrastructure
The 1st Ave N bike lanes were parking protected for fiveish years (~2010-2015). It was an abject failure, there was pretty much always someone parked in them. I've always wondered if compliance would have been better in a part of the city where it was the same group of local residents and/or workers...
- January 4th, 2024, 12:50 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1015516
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
If we're building the new highway bridge from scratch with 21st St and ramp reconfigurations, etc, (which I'm still a little flabbergasted that we're apparently doing), I've gotta imagine it can include a station as well. Seems more expensive than the originally pitched idea of elevating the tracks ...
- January 3rd, 2024, 11:19 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
- Topic: RiverNorth Broadway
- Replies: 2
- Views: 15852
RiverNorth Broadway
The office building proposal at the corner of Washington and Broadway that popped up back in 2022 has blossomed into a proposal to redevelop all four corners of the Broadway/2nd St N. intersection . According to this (locked) Finance & Commerce article, the ION Corp office/production facility is...
- December 15th, 2023, 3:34 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
- Replies: 1298
- Views: 852370
- December 7th, 2023, 12:03 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Nicollet Mall
- Replies: 1466
- Views: 583476
Re: Nicollet Mall
Since everything (except the 11, I guess) would have to get back to Nicollet at the south end anyway, running down Hennepin would mean using 11th/12th to connect back to Nicollet, or just 12th if the Orange Line contraflow lane was extended to Hennepin (or all the way to Linden/394, if we're thinkin...
- December 7th, 2023, 9:31 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Nicollet Mall
- Replies: 1466
- Views: 583476
Re: Nicollet Mall
Hindsight is 20/20, but the Nicollet BRT stations on 7th and 8th really should have been between Nicollet and Marquette instead of between Nicollet and Hennepin.
- December 6th, 2023, 11:42 am
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Minnesota State Flag and Seal Redeisgn
- Replies: 55
- Views: 249975
Re: Minnesota State Flag and Seal Redeisgn
Yeah. The social media obsession with a loon flag/seal doesn't seem all that different to me than the (thankfully briefer) obsession with the random dog picture.
On the other hand, if the seal isn't on the flag anymore, how often will I even see it? I just can't get too worked up about it.
On the other hand, if the seal isn't on the flag anymore, how often will I even see it? I just can't get too worked up about it.
- December 6th, 2023, 11:39 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Nicollet Mall
- Replies: 1466
- Views: 583476
Re: Nicollet Mall
I go back and forth on whether it would be preferable to shift the future BRT routes (10/18) to 3rd or to Hennepin. Hennepin would have the advantage of already having BRT stations and thus seamless connections to the E Line, as well as still being within a block of Nicollet so it's not too much of ...