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- September 29th, 2023, 10:27 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: HERC - Hennepin Energy Recovery Center
- Replies: 33
- Views: 80151
Re: HERC - Hennepin Energy Recovery Center
Look, there is zero chance that HERC moves and gets redeveloped even if the waste to energy use disappears. The district heating capacity is needed to keep downtown Minneapolis running and there is not a lot of redundancy built into the system. You would need to have the replacement plant up and run...
- September 27th, 2023, 1:05 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)
- Replies: 733
- Views: 379481
- September 18th, 2023, 9:03 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)
- Replies: 733
- Views: 379481
Re: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)
E 7th Street is about to get 4-3'd for pedestrian safety, without any room for bus lanes, which means that any alignment there would likely have significant speed and reliability issues. The East Side doesn't need another mixed-traffic bus on a slow road, it needs reliable, quick transit access.
- August 21st, 2023, 9:00 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
- Topic: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics
- Replies: 964
- Views: 377797
Re: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics
They've been looking for a buyer for several years, but I see the property is no longer listed.Bandana Square in St. Paul still has a hotel.
- August 15th, 2023, 10:31 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
- Replies: 1803
- Views: 1100309
Re: Bicycle Infrastructure
Hennepin County and Minneapolis liked to use this design for bike lanes for a while because it meant that you could count the whole width of the gutter pan as part of the bike lane without having to worry about a seam between the asphalt and concrete running down the center of the lane. Minnehaha Av...
- August 4th, 2023, 10:27 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 372
- Views: 163294
Re: Interstate 94
I think there are real differences in traffic reactions between temporary, planned, unplanned and permanent closures (vague sense some snippets of research). Living near Cedar Avenue I can generally tell when 35W is closed for some reason and having bike commuted on Park/Portland during constructio...
- August 3rd, 2023, 1:52 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 372
- Views: 163294
Re: Interstate 94
With over 100,000 cars on any given segment and thousands of semi-trucks, the boulevard option would probably be more like an NYC arterial than a parkway. I'm curious to see what the traffic modeling looks like but I'd expect lots of traffic to move to east-west streets like Lake/Marshall, Franklin...
- December 8th, 2021, 4:04 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Hennepin Avenue Reconstruction (Douglas to Lake St)
- Replies: 433
- Views: 214379
Re: Hennepin Avenue Reconstruction (Douglas to Lake St)
It's interesting to see they're cutting off left turns on NB Hennepin to Franklin. It seems the alternative there is taking a left at 22nd. Similarly, they're making NB access to Kowalski's via 24th and converting that one-block stretch of Fremont back to two-way traffic. It's hard for me to believ...
- December 7th, 2021, 9:03 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: RBC Gateway & Four Seasons - 37 stories - 519'
- Replies: 2124
- Views: 522488
Re: RBC Gateway (Four Seasons) - 37 stories - 519'
I'm excited to see how the lighting turns out.
- November 29th, 2021, 9:32 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
- Replies: 1413
- Views: 662894
Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Removing the Olson name--especially to restore a colorless designation like "6th Ave N," which no one alive today remembers at all--seems unnecessarily polarizing for what is already going to be an enormous lift. There's still plenty of affection for Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson out there.
- November 25th, 2021, 9:30 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line LRT
- Replies: 629
- Views: 267921
Re: Blue Line (Hiawatha LRT)
Would that block the wind at all? Doesn't seem to offer a lot of visibility for the trade-off.
- November 19th, 2021, 9:28 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
- Replies: 1413
- Views: 662894
Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Saying that the counties won these grants is not quite right. MnDOT applied for and won those grants, it's just that the projects are located within those counties. In fact the counties often have very little to do with MnDOT projects such as these, where the cities generally take the lead in partne...
- November 17th, 2021, 11:02 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: MPHA Family Housing Expansion
- Replies: 13
- Views: 29499
Re: MPHA Family Housing Expansion
My recollection is that MPHA is several hundred units below its Faircloth limit (6393).
- November 17th, 2021, 7:47 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: MPHA Family Housing Expansion
- Replies: 13
- Views: 29499
Re: MPHA Family Housing Expansion
Probably less of a PITA than the existing SFH scattered sites, though.
- November 12th, 2021, 8:56 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Midtown Greenway Trail [not the transit thread]
- Replies: 108
- Views: 46410
Re: Midtown Greenway Trail [not the transit thread]
It's not even a good surface for a driveway.
- November 4th, 2021, 6:20 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1769
- Views: 1036324
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Those are some pretty substantial property impacts. Either of those might be the most destructive public project in North since 94.
- November 3rd, 2021, 6:43 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)
- Replies: 733
- Views: 379481
- November 2nd, 2021, 2:55 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2977
- Views: 776388
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
I don't think underserving Thomas is a huge deal. People manage in between Fremont and Penn without needing a bus route in the middle of it. If we have to make cuts. This is a good cut There is a world of difference between those two examples, most notably because there is no north/south service we...
- October 27th, 2021, 10:44 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Nicollet-Lake - greater Kmart area
- Replies: 494
- Views: 334407
Re: Nicollet-Lake Area - to Kmart...and beyond!
Reconnecting Nicollet will probably require a new bridge across the Greenway too, no? At minimum serious rehabilitation of the existing bridge will be required to meet basic standards, and I'd be surprised if it's in any less need of near-term replacement than every other bridge along there.
- October 15th, 2021, 9:07 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
- Replies: 1803
- Views: 1100309
Re: Bicycle Infrastructure
Just biked the new alignment on 1st Ave S from 28th to 15th. It is now a 2-way bike avenue on the west side of the street. Painted line protection from 28th to Franklin, and then parked cars between you and traffic from Franklin to 15th. I like the arrangement much more than the skinny bike lane on...