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Over the winter, the following work will continue:In 2013, crews will finish:
- Construction inside the operation and maintenance facility.
- Electrical work at the 18 stations.
- Installation of catenary poles that will hold the overhead wires along the alignment.
- Installing miles and miles of overhead electrical wires.
- Installing the traction power substations that will convert the alternating. current from Xcel Energy’s lines to the direct current used by light rail vehicles.
- Installing signal bungalows holding the signaling and communication systems.
- Completing the expanded Rail Control Center.
- Building the operations and maintenance facility.
- Installing station art.
- Assembling, delivering and testing the light rail vehicles.
- Punch list items.
I can understand why they would totally cover their asses even if an early opening was possible... do you think they would open early if they could? That would be awesome!The line is being reported at 84% complete (and that's as of the end of October), well beyond the 75% that had been planned for the end of the year. I keep hoping that this will translate into an early opening, but it looks like signal and power installation will take until November 2013, and LRV deliveries will continue until April 2014 (though I would think that the line can open with a modestly undersized fleet -- Hiawatha didn't have all of its LRVs in the beginning either).
Depends what you mean by temporary. It's permanent until someone comes along and develops that parcel.Yikes is that skyway just intended to be temporary?
Yep. The ribbon cutting was a bit excessive.1. Agreed, how much did that skyway cost? That's the one they re-installed and had an effing ribbon cutting for, correct?
Actually, it is. I work downtown St. Paul and a lot of people use that skyway. It connects to the Pioneer Press and the St. Paul Athletic Club buildings. Lifetime fitness is in there, which a lot of people use for workouts over the lunch break.Is this skyway such an important link that St. Paul spent public $ to build a "temporary" one, albeit long-term temporary?
In case anyone missed it, the building has been undergoing renovation for some time. It's being rebranded as the new St. Paul Athletic Club, http://www.thespac.com/.The lifetime closed about two years ago but you overall point is valid. That bit of skyway is the link between the office core and the saint Paul hotel, library, river center and excel.
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