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- February 12th, 2024, 8:54 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development
- Replies: 219
- Views: 95594
Re: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development
Oxendales appears closed after a three month tenure.
- February 12th, 2024, 11:14 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 581418
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
The last docs show a significantly modified MN-5 bridge, right? Additional columns, like the Green Line added to the Washington Ave bridge, plus a second deck above. But not a new bridge.
- February 9th, 2024, 1:19 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: UrbanMSP in the News
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7757
Re: UrbanMSP in the News
Which reminds me: does anyone want the forum? I believe I got billed for it again last month.
- February 6th, 2024, 2:41 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2961
- Views: 758787
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Has anyone seen the former zoo monorail at Sandland?
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYfdid ... f0Nx7ioOYw
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYfdid ... f0Nx7ioOYw
- February 6th, 2024, 2:40 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Harmonia - 255 2nd Ave S - 25ish / 20ish / 10ish stories
- Replies: 31
- Views: 34088
Re: Harmonia - 255 2nd Ave S - 25ish / 20ish / 10ish stories
Yes, but the underground space is a giant loading dock for armored trucks, not just passenger vehicle parking.
- February 6th, 2024, 11:45 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: MSP to Rochester High Speed Rail
- Replies: 516
- Views: 183644
Re: MSP to Rochester High Speed Rail
I've said it before, but the easiest way to get rail service from MSP to Rochester is via Owatonna. This would increase travel time (driving St. Paul to Rochester is 1:15, but going via Owatonna bumps it to 1:50) but Owatonna, Faribault, and Northfield may be slight trip generators. Lots of options ...
- February 4th, 2024, 10:51 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: MSP to Rochester High Speed Rail
- Replies: 516
- Views: 183644
Re: MSP to Rochester High Speed Rail
That's a little extreme. This feels like another manifestation of a problem I see everywhere, that cities, chambers, and boosters are all about getting and supporting any funding request no matter how valid or useful.
- February 3rd, 2024, 8:55 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: MSP to Rochester High Speed Rail
- Replies: 516
- Views: 183644
Re: MSP to Rochester High Speed Rail
Weird transport grifts/vaporware to Rochester are almost expected at this point.
Weird endorsement quote from Bloomington's city manager was the actual shocker to me in that article. Yikes.
Weird endorsement quote from Bloomington's city manager was the actual shocker to me in that article. Yikes.
- February 2nd, 2024, 8:12 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Harmonia - 255 2nd Ave S - 25ish / 20ish / 10ish stories
- Replies: 31
- Views: 34088
Re: Harmonia - 255 2nd Ave S - 25ish / 20ish / 10ish stories
If it counts for anything, the idea to move the bus facility from Gateway to this project was brought up to some local WF folks involved with the deal who ensured me the concept would get to Sherman and others. But this was now a few years ago and I can prod again.
- January 30th, 2024, 2:49 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 581418
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
The op expense of a non-automated train, the capacity of a big bus. Will this one be stuck behind a Toyota Matrix like the renderings of the one-time Nicollet-Central streetcar plan in Minneapolis?
- January 30th, 2024, 2:00 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 581418
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Train length is another issue... Will these stations only be built for 1-LRV trains?
Hiawatha was built with some 2-LRV platforms but with a pathway to extend those platforms (happened within a few years).
Hiawatha was built with some 2-LRV platforms but with a pathway to extend those platforms (happened within a few years).
- January 30th, 2024, 11:00 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2961
- Views: 758787
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
If they do add the ability to use a normal credit/debit, is there any reason to keep the original go-to card around? Wouldn't it be annoying to have lots of small transactions on a credit card statement, or *particularly* a checking account statement? It's so much nicer to have fewer, larger transa...
- January 26th, 2024, 3:34 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 581418
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
What ever happened to connecting the Fort Road bridge to Shepard Road instead of W 7th?
- January 23rd, 2024, 8:50 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Northern Lights Express
- Replies: 521
- Views: 533042
Re: Northern Lights Express
Biden in Duluth/Superior tomorrow to do his second boast in two years about supporting the Blatnik Bridge project - I can't imagine Amtrak Joe will be announcing anything about NLX during the visit?
- January 23rd, 2024, 8:48 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1317678
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Yeah City West station feels like it will be a dud. The only thing it can serve well is the UHG/Optum campus, and even that's not close. This looks like it won't even have a trail south from the station to the older City West Pwky development closer to Shady Oak/212. I always thought it would have b...
- January 22nd, 2024, 8:43 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2961
- Views: 758787
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Bumping my suggestion from a decade ago to ditch the express fare and instead use GoTo and other means to convert free parking to paid. Thus if you take the 94, or get dropped off at a major park & ride, it would be a local fare. But if you park at a park & ride, it would be a local fare + p...
- January 13th, 2024, 10:12 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1317678
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
But look at that bridge up the hill connecting Penn Ave to Franklin Ave - that would be a useful connection.We could've been a real city:
- January 10th, 2024, 2:04 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1317678
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
the park board and NIMBY's cost us $1.5b and 10 years because they didn't like bikers in their view. It's literally been a conservative meme for the last decade about how we should have "just moved the damn bike trail" and I had always thought there was a sound technical reason not to. Th...
- December 29th, 2023, 8:27 am
- Forum: Cities Around the World
- Topic: Oklahoma City
- Replies: 10
- Views: 21264
Re: Oklahoma City
Developer seems honest about it...
So do they throw down the future arcology card to help get city approval or something?Hogan called the plan for the third tower, which will be built last and its height ultimately determined by market demand and financing, “aspirational.”
- December 26th, 2023, 6:13 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1317678
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
It wouldn't be unprecedented. When the Blue Line opened in 2004, the initial service was downtown to Ft. Snelling Station since the airport tunnel was not yet complete.