urbanMSP

There is certainly a huge difference in the quality of diesel mechanics and when you find a good one you treat them very well and do everything you can to keep them. It is also true that there are a lot more mechanics out there with experience working on diesel engines than there are mechanics out t...

Getting from 52 to 35W is easy part, a quick look at Google Maps it looks like it's mostly industrial properties that would need to be taken with only a few houses around Lexington but once you get the U's Athletic Campus that changes quickly and you are going to have to bulldoze a big section of ho...

I realize rebuilding 94 is a once in a generation opportunity but with the stakes so high about the impact of the removal and implementation of such an unprecedented project locally wouldn't it be wise to save the big push of freeway removal with a section with more built in redundancy and probably ...

I think a real redevelopment of Har Mar is pretty unlikely just based on the always busy Chick-Fil-A that opened a few year ago along Snelling. If the owners where planning something transformational they would have continued to have control over such a prime location and the associated parking vs s...

Probably belongs in the fantasy category but wouldn't it work to having Midtown Rail Line enter a tunnel right after Cedar travel under Pioneers & Soldiers Cemetery the Hi Lake Shopping Center have an underground stop below the Blue Line then day light and stop on east side of Minnehaha? You wou...

If you consider being told what the negative consequences of an action will be to be blackmail then sure I guess it's blackmail but then you also can't be mad at what the consequences are when they happen. I have no idea why people think Uber/Lyft are bluffing, MSP isn't a special market and if it's...

I've always really liked the idea someone pitched on streets.mn tenish years ago of completing the wye in Cedar-Riverside, allowing (Teal Line?) trains to go directly from the Hiawatha tracks to the Washington tracks. Allows direct connections from campus to the airport, and enables increased frequ...

I don't have the technical expertise to understand what would prevent converting shared ROW into dedicated? Or really why stations couldn't be expanded/relocated as needed if ridership ever required additional vehicles. If that could be explained, I would greatly appreciate that. This project should...

I don't think anyone here is arguing or even insinuating that adding more police and "fixing" the LRT system is magically going to solve the underlying issue that the system is currently dealing with. I would say most posters here are would agree with you that the homeless, drug addicts &a...

I mean smoking on a train/bus probably should be a prosecutable offense but I think a busy and focused DA office should be spending their energy and attention elsewhere on far more serious offenses. Even if some is caught dead to rights for smoking a cigarette on a train (multiple witnesses, video f...

1/4 baked idea, the city/Metro Transit cuts a deal with Sherman to use this parking ramp on this block for a layover facility/what ever else they need and in exchange Sherman get 1st right of refusal on the Gateway Ramp Block at a discounted rate

I think it's worth noting the $2.1 billion dollar budget includes replacing the bridge over the Mississippi with a new bridge which is certainly a big part of that number That said if this thing can't get into a completely dedicated ROW and interlined with the Green Line for that number aBRT is the ...

If there is one constant in transit planning in the time I've been following it here it's that political officials refusal to piss off a small number of people no matter how much it positively impact literally everyone else. This being a prime example. Also see the Blue Line Extension and Riverview...

If there is one constant in transit planning in the time I've been following it here it's that political officials refusal to piss off a small number of people no matter how much it positively impact literally everyone else. This being a prime example. Also see the Blue Line Extension and Riverview ...

I love the loon, my concern is that it will look dated in 15 years and we will all collective ask ourselves what were we thinking. It doesn't have a timelessness to it IMO

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). This, just because a potential solution doesn't fit everywhere on the system doesn't mean where is does fit and work it shouldn...

is the plan to use the Green line O & M for this project?

A few pages back some posted that Riverview will need a separate O&M facility

With the continued dwindling utility of this project, continued political unwillingness to piss locals off with both Riverview & Bonttineau and the cost overruns of SW I'm kinda at the point where they should just cancel any future rail projects here and just invest every penny possible into aBR...

The 82nd Street Station is a win for everyone including the Blue Line. I view the elimination of WB 62 to SB 5 as a positive for the project and Fort Snelling that the residents along Dodd Road are going to scream about The lack of interlining with the Green Line is still annoying and should have be...

I don't have a subscription but the MSPBJ is reporting the renovation could cost $300 million