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- May 11th, 2024, 6:10 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Valleyfair - Shakopee
- Replies: 56
- Views: 44938
Re: Valleyfair - Shakopee
Valleyfair is open for the year with their "Season Pass Appreciation" day. Basically a number of years ago they decided to let season passholders in for their full training day. I guess the idea is if you're not paying money for that day only you're less likely to complain if the rides are...
- May 1st, 2024, 11:23 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Amtrak: Empire Builder and Borealis (TCMC)
- Replies: 640
- Views: 418791
Re: Amtrak: Empire Builder and Borealis (TCMC)
Would have been nice if the timing had been condusive to day trips to Wisconsin Dells, but oh well. I've done quite a few car trips where I've left at 6 in the morning and gotten back home after midnight.
- April 12th, 2024, 6:16 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2974
- Views: 765060
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Have to agree MOA appears to be doing just fine. The place is absolutely packed on weekend nights and there's very few vacancies. A lot of the will ride trains but not buses people from the suburbs that would drive their car to a park and ride and take the train downtown to work are still working in...
- April 12th, 2024, 1:00 pm
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
- Replies: 79
- Views: 44898
Re: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
Exactly. I'd sure hate to have to live right next to that.
- April 12th, 2024, 12:32 pm
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
- Replies: 79
- Views: 44898
Re: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
The problem I see with the bill was the potential impacts were too broad. I don't think most people would really mind a couple of duplexes here and there- there's a few in my neighborhood already. And of course the bill doesn't obligate any development. But potentially 6 unit apartment buildings on ...
- April 8th, 2024, 11:55 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Hopkins - General Topics
- Replies: 374
- Views: 148490
Re: Hopkins - General Topics
No. My only recollections are all the free right turns will be removed on the west side and I don't have any recollection of any remaining on the east side.
- April 3rd, 2024, 5:50 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Hopkins - General Topics
- Replies: 374
- Views: 148490
Re: Hopkins - General Topics
I saw the actual construction plans when they were still advertised for bids and FWIW my recollection is that all the free right turns were removed. There was a similar project at Fairview and 36 last year. On that one they kept one of the free rights, EB to NB, due to concerns during peak holiday s...
- April 1st, 2024, 10:26 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 372
- Views: 159157
Re: Interstate 94
The original Corridors of Commerce anyone with an internet connection was allowed to make a proposal, they didn't have to come from a government agency. I think it's safe to say the I-894 proposal was some random person either making simple joke or a making a statement about how bad the traffic cong...
- March 31st, 2024, 7:00 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Valleyfair - Shakopee
- Replies: 56
- Views: 44938
Re: Valleyfair - Shakopee
Online chatter is Valleyscare is coming back this year. There's an announcement coming April 2 (just in time to spur advance season ticket sales for this year) There's been some rather creapy looking teaser images on their social media, an allaeged leak, and spring isn't normally when you announce a...
- March 30th, 2024, 8:16 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Grandview District - Edina
- Replies: 125
- Views: 93286
Re: Grandview District - Edina
Are there any developers willing to build mixed use anymore absent the city forcing them to include ground floor retail as a condition of being able to build their apartments, or the city coughing up huge amounts of their taxpayer's money for a subsidy?
- March 25th, 2024, 4:45 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1323462
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
I'd say building the tracks on the biggest infrastructure project in the state in the wrong place is a bigger deal than someone sneezing on a train.
- March 22nd, 2024, 6:56 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1323462
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Building the tracks in the wrong place is a "minor error?"
- March 1st, 2024, 1:29 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 585280
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
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So the difference in capital costs for doing streetcar vs ABRT is approximately 18-20 ABRT routes? What are we doing here?
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St. Paul doesn't want to see people leaving the airport for downtown Minneapolis on real trains and to downtown St. Paul on nothing but buses.
So the difference in capital costs for doing streetcar vs ABRT is approximately 18-20 ABRT routes? What are we doing here?
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St. Paul doesn't want to see people leaving the airport for downtown Minneapolis on real trains and to downtown St. Paul on nothing but buses.
- March 1st, 2024, 8:42 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Southdale Area - Edina
- Replies: 799
- Views: 296640
- February 18th, 2024, 7:55 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News
- Replies: 244
- Views: 188512
Re: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News
Kind of wonder if Hy-Vee is going to pull out of this market entirely, since they haven't shown any inclination to keep expanding to establish themselves.
- February 16th, 2024, 4:33 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development
- Replies: 219
- Views: 97353
Re: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development
So, how did it work out with the city squandering the money of hard-working taxpayers trying to get "just a normal city" there?
- February 14th, 2024, 11:03 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development
- Replies: 219
- Views: 97353
Re: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development
https://www.startribune.com/a-grocery-store-was-supposed-to-make-a-neighborhood-near-the-mall-of-america-it-closed-in-less-than-four-months/600343491/ Strib article. Seems Bloomington city management had a really niave and iddyllic vision of creating their idea of an urban utopia from scratch and ar...
- February 6th, 2024, 9:08 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Introductions
- Replies: 162
- Views: 87116
Re: Introductions
I absolutely love the suburbs and despise the city, but I share your obsession with street lights, and have a personal collection of street lights and traffic signals.
- February 6th, 2024, 12:00 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: MSP to Rochester High Speed Rail
- Replies: 516
- Views: 184438
Re: MSP to Rochester High Speed Rail
If the idea is to get funding for stuff as oppossed to actually getting stuff that's feasible or useful, maybe we could offer grants for digging ditches and then filling them in.
- February 4th, 2024, 10:20 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: MSP to Rochester High Speed Rail
- Replies: 516
- Views: 184438
Re: MSP to Rochester High Speed Rail
Citizens in Bloomington have been raising questions about the city manager before.