As a runner who ate a Chipotle burrito before taking off for a 12 mile run yesterday I can tell you I wish there were *ANY* kind of restroom between the river and LAKE CALHOUN along the Cedar Lake trail. That was a brutal five miles.
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As a runner who ate a Chipotle burrito before taking off for a 12 mile run yesterday I can tell you I wish there were *ANY* kind of restroom between the river and LAKE CALHOUN along the Cedar Lake trail. That was a brutal five miles.
Yes, it was quite surprising to me too.It's still a bit surprising there isn't at least a portajohn on the Cedar Lake trail though because I think there is even a couple along the Gateway Trail.
Pun intended?St. Anthony Main has public bathrooms that have bailed me out on runs before.
Those aren't tail tracks so much as they are stubs for the Blue and Green line extensions.So maybe I'm the only transit nerd who missed this in the plans for "the Interchange" but holy tail tracks batman! There's definitely more than a quarter mile of tail tracks beyond the station, wrapping all the way around the HERC and ending up back at the far end of the Target Field decking. They were operating trains on the tail tracks today at lunch and I was downtown for some business so I took a pile of pictures. I'll upload them momentarily.
Yeah, sorry that's what I thought at first but that's certainly not the case because the tail track turns back way past Royalston, parallel to 7th, heading straight back toward the trench rail tracks. *SOME* of the new track is eventual extension stubs, and I expected that part. The unexpected part is the long tail track along the south side of HERC.Those aren't tail tracks so much as they are stubs for the Blue and Green line extensions.So maybe I'm the only transit nerd who missed this in the plans for "the Interchange" but holy tail tracks batman! There's definitely more than a quarter mile of tail tracks beyond the station, wrapping all the way around the HERC and ending up back at the far end of the Target Field decking. They were operating trains on the tail tracks today at lunch and I was downtown for some business so I took a pile of pictures. I'll upload them momentarily.
Yup, looks like I was asleep at the wheel - I completely failed to process what these slides were showing last year. It was a big surprise to see all that trackage but now it makes sense. The odd raw edge is actually where *both* extensions continue, meaning that even if the whole system is built they're planning to have an insane amount of train storage by the Ballpark. Not a bad idea, but that essentially amounts to a huge subsidy of transit for baseball patrons in the long run. Interesting.Slides 40 & 41 from this presentation show the area really well:
http://www.metrocouncil.org/getdoc/91b8 ... ation.aspx
Both extensions, except for the eastbound Blue Line into the station, which would rise to the viaduct using the new/built tail track and a new switch.The odd raw edge is actually where *both* extensions continue.
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