Back in the good old days you had to pay an additional fare when you went between cities; perhaps we could reinstate that?It's easy to forget that the checkpoint, barbed wire, and watch towers have only been gone for 23 years.
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Back in the good old days you had to pay an additional fare when you went between cities; perhaps we could reinstate that?It's easy to forget that the checkpoint, barbed wire, and watch towers have only been gone for 23 years.
Because other than shoring up the short piece of trackage over Snelling, it wouldn't require touching the LRT. It could probably be built with only a couple weekend LRT closures. Putting LRT in a shallow tunnel would require a block on each end for the grade change and a complete rebuild of the Snelling Ave station. It would require the LRT to be out for months at a minimum. There's not enough ROW to do an H channel for the cut-and-cover preserving the existing trackage in the middle.Why would any of that be easier than simply putting the LRT in a shallow tunnel and keeping the intersection at grade, as is?
This situation happens pretty often: driver accelerates rapidly only to slam on the brakes when the signal is just missed. Then the train waits for 2 or 3 full minutes for all the other traffic signal phases.Wednesday morning taking off east onto University from Prospect Park the train was trying to make the light at Malcolm and sped up too fast: knocked the bottom wheel of my bike out and a guy almost fell out of his seat. That didn't help and we had to wait around 3 min for our signal.
Write to St. Paul (councilmembers, mayor, public works), and tell them this is unacceptable. I have and so far received some very promising responses.Westbound from union, my train has stopped at almost every light in st. Paul
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Quelle horreur!“It will be a little more of this yuppy, sidewalk dining, pizza on the sidewalk, drinks on the sidewalk. More like Minneapolis,” Marty said.
It matters a hell of a lot to people whose businesses are there.I can see the problem to tearing down something of historical value but if it's just a concrete structure, it doesn't matter that much.
Really? We told people to open businesses there because the train would bring customers and when they want to tear the building down, "tough luck?"Like I said. If your building is doing well then you have proven you can't sell. But if you aren't... and you just moved in like 3 years ago and you're actually complaining about the train hurting your business when you started your business when you knew there was going to be a train there. Well.
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