It's great when wealthy people commit to building these types of civic improvements. I feel like it used to happen all of the time, but sadly not so often anymore.
The project name could use some help, though.
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- May 2nd, 2023, 10:45 am
- Forum: Greater Minnesota
- Topic: Winona
- Replies: 28
- Views: 30617
- May 1st, 2023, 11:41 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 582735
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
35E sits at the base of a giant bluff line for most of its route through west St. Paul, and that's what is and has historically blocked the north-south routes.
- April 27th, 2023, 11:15 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: Minneapolis Street Design
- Replies: 45
- Views: 56563
Re: Minneapolis Street Design
The problem with both Bryant and Grand was that the layouts were too precious by half, and they rolled out a bunch of "features" that were clearly going to have negative impacts in winter conditions. The revised design for Bryant seems like it's still going to work well for bikers and pede...
- April 24th, 2023, 1:19 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: Minneapolis Street Design
- Replies: 45
- Views: 56563
Re: Minneapolis Street Design
If only we had, like, decades of experience to know that plowing curb to curb is actually quite difficult, and becomes impossible once snowbanks reach a certain height such that plowed snow falls back into the street. And if only somebody could have predicted that introducing all sorts of physical i...
- April 24th, 2023, 10:00 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: Minneapolis Street Design
- Replies: 45
- Views: 56563
Re: Minneapolis Street Design
Seriously, the city has been designing recent projects without any acknowledgement that it snows here, and the only reason they haven't gotten burned on it until now is that most of the substandard lanes they've built so far can cheat into painted bike lane separation zones when the snowbanks build ...
- April 20th, 2023, 1:07 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Nicollet Ave / Eat Street - Whittier, Stevens, Loring Park
- Replies: 225
- Views: 147514
Re: Nicollet Ave / Eat Street - Whittier, Stevens, Loring Park
I haven't been in there since the remodeling wrapped, but the building footprint didn't change, so the dining room is still there, right? They're just not using it? (Which they have been doing since Covid hit, I'm pretty certain.)
- April 13th, 2023, 2:22 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Gold Line BRT - Downtown St. Paul to Woodbury
- Replies: 495
- Views: 169237
Re: Gold Line BRT (Gateway Corridor)
1. This should have as few stops as possible. It's paralleling the Green Line, which already does a great job of serving intermediate destinations.
2. This should definitely stop at Huron. The UofM is a massive trip generator.
2. This should definitely stop at Huron. The UofM is a massive trip generator.
- April 12th, 2023, 11:25 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Latest Census Estimates and Met Council Projections
- Replies: 221
- Views: 92211
Re: Latest Census Estimates and Met Council Projections
It's worth remembering that a lot of the suburbs have formed cooperative agreements with neighbors or their county to provide municipal services more efficiently.
- March 31st, 2023, 2:37 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Southdale Area - Edina
- Replies: 799
- Views: 291951
Re: Southdale Area - Edina
When they say first floor, I assume that they mean the ground floor with frontage facing northeast? If so, that's going to become a very congested little area, with a pretty terrible parking layout for a grocery store. Looks like the Kowalski's will be on the upper floor of the old Herberger's (fac...
- March 29th, 2023, 8:06 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Freight Rail News and Happenings
- Replies: 247
- Views: 134106
Re: Freight Rail News and Happenings
Please explain to me why these issues with privately owned infrastructure is now the responsibility of the state.
Especially since railroads have been such good neighbors and always willing to work hard and negotiate in the interest of the greater good.
Especially since railroads have been such good neighbors and always willing to work hard and negotiate in the interest of the greater good.
- March 15th, 2023, 3:13 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Northstar Commuter Rail
- Replies: 952
- Views: 247871
- March 14th, 2023, 3:55 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Northstar Commuter Rail
- Replies: 952
- Views: 247871
Re: Northstar Commuter Rail
I'm skeptical but hopeful that NLX to Duluth will be successful, but I'm really quite certain that Amtrak to St. Clould will somehow have even fewer riders than Northstar.
- March 14th, 2023, 10:09 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: St. Louis Park - General Topics
- Replies: 557
- Views: 248939
Re: St. Louis Park - General Topics
I saw somewhere from a totally unknown source that they discovered some structural issues when they started the Southgate project and had to bail on the original plans.
- March 14th, 2023, 10:07 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1026297
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Wasn't one of the big takeaways of the original Blue line and Green line that it's better to run trains down the middle of roads rather than on the side? And if so, why do we have so much side running rail in these plans? I can't tell from the plans -- are they still proposing to cross the 7th St/6t...
- March 9th, 2023, 10:10 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1319759
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
For what it's worth, the argument went that should buy the railroad so that TC&W wouldn't be a stumbling block in negotiations, not that they would shut it down. They could have done the necessary reroutes and then resold it to a private company as-is, or hired somebody to operate it on their be...
- March 9th, 2023, 9:42 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Transit Crime
- Replies: 280
- Views: 1052890
- March 6th, 2023, 10:02 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Suburbs - General Topics
- Replies: 1138
- Views: 376758
Re: Suburbs - General Topics
The excursion train thread reminded me that at one point the Renaissance Festival was supposed to be relocating, due to their lease with the quarry around them ending. A little googling found their new proposed location outside of Jordan, but then radio silence. Did I miss that they were able to som...
- February 22nd, 2023, 4:31 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1319759
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
That fairly pronounced path that cuts down along the side of the bluff -- anybody know the story behind that? It seems too deliberate just to be a desire path.
- February 22nd, 2023, 3:00 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: North Loop Green - 350/360 N 5th St - 35 stories - 393'/418'
- Replies: 205
- Views: 181411
Re: North Loop Green - Hines - 350 N 5th St(?) - 35 stories - 393'/418'
It's stupid, but I'm sure the issue is that if they make any improvements that encourage people to cross here, and then somebody crosses and gets run over by a train, they'll be liable.
- February 22nd, 2023, 2:56 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1319759
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
It may be a pipe dream, but I think there's still a decent chance that the Bassett Creek Valley station will eventually be surrounded by some pretty dense TOD.