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- May 15th, 2024, 8:27 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Amtrak: Empire Builder and Borealis (TCMC)
- Replies: 639
- Views: 416797
Re: Amtrak: Empire Builder and Borealis (TCMC)
My understanding is that they can't use the new Venture cars on the Borealis, because Minnesota isn't a part of the multi-state consortium that ordered them. Some of the NLX money appropriated in 2023 was to buy into the consortium for NLX, if MnDOT ever actually does anything with those hundreds of...
- May 12th, 2024, 7:46 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Northern Lights Express
- Replies: 521
- Views: 534636
Re: Northern Lights Express
Not necessarily an issue, it could work just like the Missouri River Runner (2x daily Kansas City-St. Louis) and Lincoln Service (4x daily Chicago-St. Louis) do. One southbound Lincoln continues west as one of the River Runners, and one eastbound River Runner continues north as a Lincoln. The NLX sc...
- May 9th, 2024, 2:58 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 372
- Views: 157156
Re: Interstate 94
It's there, certainly, but no one is even paying lip service to it being on the table. All of Our Streets' messaging (that I've seen, at least) has been the Transit Boulevard concept, usually using the "What if we built Hiawatha Ave through Seward" rendering.
- May 2nd, 2024, 6:23 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
- Replies: 1407
- Views: 653049
Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Yeah, with Central also up for reconstruction in 2028, it's probably time to start working on Hennepin County to finish the 4-3 conversion of Broadway from University to 94.
- May 1st, 2024, 10:36 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Amtrak: Empire Builder and Borealis (TCMC)
- Replies: 639
- Views: 416797
Re: Amtrak: Empire Builder and Borealis (TCMC)
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Eastbound is scheduled for 11:05 departure from Chicago with a 6:30 arrival in St. Paul, not that I booked a trip as soon as seeing the news or anything.
Eastbound is scheduled for 11:05 departure from Chicago with a 6:30 arrival in St. Paul, not that I booked a trip as soon as seeing the news or anything.
- April 30th, 2024, 8:18 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Red Rock Corridor
- Replies: 62
- Views: 11747
Re: Red Rock Corridor
Given how often the intercity train to Duluth gets called LiGhT rAiL, I've gotta assume the same thing is happening here. There's no way they can actually be considering LRT for the seven miles of nothing between Dayton's Bluff and 494, or the rest of the way to Hastings. That's comparable to the fu...
- April 30th, 2024, 6:31 pm
- Forum: Saint Paul
- Topic: St Thomas Master Plan
- Replies: 16
- Views: 12076
Re: St Thomas Master Plan
That is a fascinating level of commitment to the architectural bit.
- April 28th, 2024, 4:55 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Fantasy maps
- Replies: 310
- Views: 159196
Re: Fantasy maps
Probably just key destinations, or routes like the 11 (Central-40th Ave-University-37th Ave-2 1/2 St-35th Ave-Main St-St. Anthony Parkway-Columbia-31st Ave... and that's just the half-hourly northernmost portion) will get pretty unwieldy.
- April 23rd, 2024, 5:39 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2972
- Views: 762778
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
They try not to, but the 11 runs on St. Anthony Parkway for a short distance where it's the only route through the rail yard. So there's precedent.
The 6 might too? I can't remember if that section on the south shore of Bde Maka Ska is technically a parkway or not.
The 6 might too? I can't remember if that section on the south shore of Bde Maka Ska is technically a parkway or not.
- April 22nd, 2024, 11:34 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2972
- Views: 762778
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Oof. Time to get J, K, and L lines picked out, I guess. Man, it really seemed like we had some momentum going.
- April 22nd, 2024, 10:58 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1320555
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Random people should not be entering active construction sites without PPE (or with PPE, to be clear), no matter how sure they are that they know more about safety than all the professionals. The 25' offset is what BNSF made up as a spec to not require a crash wall between their freight tracks and t...
- April 22nd, 2024, 9:40 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
- Replies: 1803
- Views: 1092365
Re: Bicycle Infrastructure
11th Ave S is getting resurfaced from West River Parkway to 8th St this year. I'd like to imagine that that would include completing the protection south of Washington, but I haven't seen any confirmation of that, and I don't really trust the current Public Works leadership. 9th and 10th Streets are...
- April 22nd, 2024, 9:34 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2972
- Views: 762778
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Yep, MnDOT is completely opaque with regards to their project schedules. I've been following the MnDOT University/Central planning process pretty closely since I live a block off of University, and this is the first indication that they're actually planning on reconstructing Central at a specific da...
- April 18th, 2024, 6:34 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1027076
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
I'm not going to hate not having both the House and Senate transportation leaders be completely beholden to the whiniest neighborhood in Minneapolis.
- April 16th, 2024, 9:29 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
- Replies: 1298
- Views: 862937
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
New surface parking lots are still banned downtown, as far as I'm aware. Not that that's stopped people from demolishing buildings and leaving them as grassy lots for a decade or two in the past.
- April 10th, 2024, 9:12 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1027076
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Man, even if I wasn't convinced before by twincitizen's comment upthread about chopping off the northern couple stations, I am now. Absolutely no reason to rebuild half the streets in Brooklyn Park with transit dollars. If another OMF is necessary, there looks to be plenty of underused land in the B...
- April 2nd, 2024, 10:27 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Gold Line BRT - Downtown St. Paul to Woodbury
- Replies: 495
- Views: 169584
Re: Gold Line BRT (Gateway Corridor)
Metro Transit has now updated the project page to set a March 22, 2025 opening date for the Gold Line. Idk if they're going to be working weekends this summer or what.
- March 29th, 2024, 1:12 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2972
- Views: 762778
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Metro Transit is presenting an update on the LRT train size plans to the Met Council. Looks like 2-car service will start on weekends (unless there's a Twins or United home game) April 13th, extending to 7 days a week (except event days) with the June service change. Then, with the August service ch...
- March 28th, 2024, 8:25 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: North Loop Green - 350/360 N 5th St - 35 stories - 393'/418'
- Replies: 205
- Views: 181950
Re: North Loop Green - Hines - 350 N 5th St(?) - 35 stories - 393'/418'
Brian Ingram is bringing a Hope Breakfast Bar and an Italian restaurant and market to NLG. I assume these will both be on the "ground"/5th St viaduct level.
- March 28th, 2024, 1:47 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Zoning, building codes, enforcement in the courts
- Replies: 39
- Views: 11739