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- December 22nd, 2020, 11:45 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 372
- Views: 161411
Re: Interstate 94
The National Guard used the urban interstates pretty effectively to suppress civil unrest last summer. Could they be persuaded to reduce their ability to do that?
- December 22nd, 2020, 9:47 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 372
- Views: 161411
Re: Interstate 94
Weren't the interstate highways originally built so we could drive tanks and missile launchers on them if the Soviet Union attacked?
- December 19th, 2020, 6:42 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 372
- Views: 161411
Re: Interstate 94
The passenger traffic seems pretty flexible. People can switch to bikes, transit, etc. But the truck traffic is kind of built into the area right now, with the intermodal yard and the big industrial zone around 280. If the boulevard had a lot of trucks coming to a dead stop at intersections and then...
- December 18th, 2020, 9:55 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 372
- Views: 161411
- December 16th, 2020, 3:00 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 372
- Views: 161411
Re: Interstate 94
If you'd like to make the case for slower or less travel between the two core cities you have my full attention.What if we didn't normalize a 8 minute commute from Saint Paul to Uptown? It is stupidly easy to get around by car in the twin cities.
- December 16th, 2020, 1:31 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 372
- Views: 161411
Re: Interstate 94
When I saw the initial proposals for the Green Line I was quite disappointed. It was obviously not going to provide a viable alternative to driving a car from downtown Minneapolis to downtown St. Paul. You'd need grade separated Chicago style rail to do that.
- October 16th, 2020, 10:57 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Future Cars: Electric and Autonomous Vehicles
- Replies: 545
- Views: 215797
Re: Future Cars: Electric and Autonomous Vehicles
The biggest obstacle to transitioning away from gasoline powered transportation is the fact that oil is priced and traded in dollars. This gives the US a lot of global clout which our leaders are unwilling to surrender. Protecting the the supply of oil provides a rationale for maintaining our gigant...
- September 18th, 2020, 9:28 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan
- Replies: 264
- Views: 179381
Re: Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan
I've often wondered about the economics of building parking space in an apartment building. Is the ROIC greater on a square foot of leasable apartment or a square foot of parking? When developers vigorously pat themselves on the back for building less parking are they really just congratulating them...
- August 14th, 2020, 8:21 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Theater Garage Marquee Apartments - (Franklin & Lyndale)
- Replies: 550
- Views: 91806
Re: Theater Garage Marquee Apartments - (Franklin & Lyndale)
I want to know more about the “cave-in deep below the surface”.
I wonder if the unstable subsurface conditions extend north of Franklin to the Vision Loss Resources site.
I wonder if the unstable subsurface conditions extend north of Franklin to the Vision Loss Resources site.
- August 4th, 2020, 10:12 am
- Forum: Saint Paul
- Topic: Seven Corners Gateway - Apartments & Hotel
- Replies: 57
- Views: 47843
Re: Seven Corners Gateway - Apartments & Hotel
These things always terrify me when they're at that stage. It's like Burning Man, just a big assembly of sticks, with plenty of openings for airflow.
Hopefully the insurance companies will shorten the leash. If not, state and local government needs to act.
Hopefully the insurance companies will shorten the leash. If not, state and local government needs to act.
- July 30th, 2020, 9:52 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
- Replies: 1803
- Views: 1097570
Re: Bicycle Infrastructure
"Concerned Citizens" armed with a digging bar and a cordless angle grinder could remedy that in about a half hour. There would be noise and sparks, but if you wore orange vests and hardhats I doubt anybody would suspect it was an ad-hoc action.
- July 16th, 2020, 11:34 am
- Forum: Cities Around the World
- Topic: Barcelona
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10275
- July 15th, 2020, 5:12 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Public Street Blocked by Residents
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2472
Re: Public Street Blocked by Residents
Single cop patrols were tried for a while and it was discovered that they behave even crazier when they're alone, so they went back to the buddy system.
- July 2nd, 2020, 8:47 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: 1301 W Lake St - LOCAL Ventures - 14 stories / 160'
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6197
Re: Lake and Fremont - 15 stories
Not trying to take a poke at anything or anyone other than the generous parking allocation. I will admit that seeing people living in tents perhaps 3 blocks from this site on the Greenway (and the general profusion of tents) has had a bit of an effect on me. I'm fine with bulky buildings if they kee...
- July 2nd, 2020, 9:41 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: 1301 W Lake St - LOCAL Ventures - 14 stories / 160'
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6197
Re: Lake and Fremont - 15 stories
Maybe homeless people could pitch tents in the unused parking spaces?
- June 2nd, 2020, 1:54 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Nicollet-Lake - greater Kmart area
- Replies: 494
- Views: 331943
Re: Lake & Nicollet Redevelopment (Kmart site)
No visible damage to K-mart when viewed from Lake Street.
- April 30th, 2020, 3:50 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Not-TMBR - 100 3rd Ave N
- Replies: 60
- Views: 14954
Re: TMBR - 100 3rd Ave N
At this stage building a pioneering high rise mass timber building is an extremely risky venture, but it looks to be greenest option by far for building that level of density. We need to get a few of these up and study them in the real world. Personally, I'd support some level of public subsidy to d...
- April 29th, 2020, 3:16 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Not-TMBR - 100 3rd Ave N
- Replies: 60
- Views: 14954
Re: TMBR - 100 3rd Ave N
If you travel west of Minneapolis you will need to go to Denver Colorado before any built environment resembling; car free, upwardly mobile, desirable can be found. Minneapolis has the task to be the catchment for all those individuals from areas where any significant change is too far to envision....
- April 28th, 2020, 6:31 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Not-TMBR - 100 3rd Ave N
- Replies: 60
- Views: 14954
Re: TMBR - 100 3rd Ave N
I just went back and reread this thread. So much discussion of cars and parking, but very little about the value of carbon sequestration in the structure. Maybe someday proposals will be required to provide an estimate of fossil fuel consumption and emissions required to build them. Perhaps this wou...
- March 27th, 2020, 1:54 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Theater Garage Marquee Apartments - (Franklin & Lyndale)
- Replies: 550
- Views: 91806
Re: Theater Garage Marquee Apartments - (Franklin & Lyndale)
"Brand New Modern Luxury Apartment Homes"