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- April 12th, 2024, 4:28 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2972
- Views: 761756
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
With the Timberwolves playoff bound in the next few weeks, there should be a noticeable bump from bringing riders to multiple sold out home games, and thousands more fans coming downtown to watch. I’m actually a little worried about this. Last year, the two Wolves’ playoff games started at 8 and 8:...
- March 14th, 2024, 2:24 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Uber/Lyft
- Replies: 34
- Views: 9359
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Will Uber and Lyft really leave Minneapolis? Maybe. Here's how it could play out. I don't use Uber/Lyft and don't know anyone who drives for them, so I have the luxury of being a disinterested third party in this. At minimum, if Uber/Lyft withdrew and no other rideshare service replaced them, I'd b...
- March 6th, 2024, 1:38 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1026298
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Exactly what twincitizen said. I think Chicago gets this right. This makes the lines identifiable not only be color, but by destination as well. Being consistent with this avoids the need for the signs to say “Blue Line.” Even if someone is color blind, they can know they’re on the right train by th...
- February 9th, 2024, 11:20 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Transit Crime
- Replies: 280
- Views: 1052891
Re: Transit Crime
Perhaps also roll out some PSAs showing the cleaning crews who have to clean up other people's messes on buses, trains, and stations. Like smoking, it confounds me that so many people just don't care about littering on our taxpayer funded vehicles and stations. When it comes to littering and smokin...
- January 20th, 2024, 11:21 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2972
- Views: 761756
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Fare Collection System Upgrade presentation for the upcoming Transportation Committee. https://metrocouncil.org/Council-Meetings/Committees/Transportation-Committee/2024/January-22,-2024/Info-Item-_-Cubic-Upgrade.aspx That’s great news. The ability to pay directly with a debit or credit card remove...
- January 19th, 2024, 1:40 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Transit Crime
- Replies: 280
- Views: 1052891
Re: Transit Crime
Metro Transit leadership posted some takeaways from their listening tour. While acknowledging a problem is not the same as fixing it, I was pretty impressed by their willingness to be straightforward and admit the current state of the system is unacceptable. It’s also exciting that several talked ab...
- November 30th, 2023, 3:21 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Transit Crime
- Replies: 280
- Views: 1052891
Re: Transit Crime
While I agree that fare gates are not the answer system wide, they could be implemented where they’re most needed and practical (Lake Street seems like an obvious choice). On a broader transit crime note, I was recently in Paris, London and Amsterdam and was astounded by how clean and orderly their ...
- September 7th, 2023, 2:29 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Better Bus Routes - Metro Transit
- Replies: 34
- Views: 67399
Re: Better Bus Routes - Metro Transit
This comment could go in the aBRT thread or here, but I wonder if going with lettered rapid lines instead of numbers is going to seem like a good idea long-term, once we're in the middle of the alphabet. Instead of A-K (minus I), the first ten aBRT routes could have been labeled Routes 1-10. Obviou...
- September 6th, 2023, 2:37 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Better Bus Routes - Metro Transit
- Replies: 34
- Views: 67399
Re: Better Bus Routes - Metro Transit
Yeah, the obsession with killing the downtown hub-and-spoke in favor of a cartesian grid is truly baffling to me. You're benefiting hardly anybody, and hurting lots of people who do want to go downtown (or who would like to make a different connection there). Chicago has a great bus grid, but I thi...
- August 30th, 2023, 2:53 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1319764
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Meant to say September 2013 when talking about the testing at Stadium Village station.
- August 30th, 2023, 10:08 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1319764
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Anyone old enough to remember when the blue and green lines where being built recall roughly how long it took from them being "almost done with construction" to fully open to the public? Not really an answer to your question, but I did some poking around on street view to try and get a ti...
- August 25th, 2023, 8:24 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1026298
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Imagine a history where instead of assuming railroads would play nice in swampy low-intensity corridors, we had done elevated driverless automated light metros from the start with 3-4 minute headways regardless of driver shortages. A world where every top 30 metro area in the country tried to copy ...
- March 16th, 2023, 10:59 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Transit Crime
- Replies: 280
- Views: 1052891
Re: Transit Crime
Here in Chicago, the CTA is paying $31 million for security on trains. So far, it’s pretty universally regarded as a failure. They usually just sit around chatting or looking at their phones. One time I was riding a train with guards sitting across from me and a man lit up a cigarette. I had to poin...
- May 21st, 2020, 3:55 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1319764
- May 21st, 2020, 1:45 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1319764
Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)
Are these cars identical to the previous Green Line cars?Looks like the first LRT cars for this are being delivered today.
- March 5th, 2020, 8:28 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Nicollet-Lake - greater Kmart area
- Replies: 494
- Views: 326148
Re: Lake & Nicollet Redevelopment (Kmart site)
I’ve always thought Nicollet-Central would do well as LRT, especially with a tunnel between Lake and Lowry. Medtronic to Southtown, or something like that. So bear with me: is there any chance they’d build a subway station here during this? Seems like if it’s ever going to happen, now would be the t...