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Oof. Time to get J, K, and L lines picked out, I guess. Man, it really seemed like we had some momentum going.

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...

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...

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...

I'm not going to hate not having both the House and Senate transportation leaders be completely beholden to the whiniest neighborhood in Minneapolis.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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.

That's the idea!

My understanding is that the MnDOT Passenger Rail office is, like, three people. Not much capacity there to do multiple things at once.

Fifth time's the charm!

According to their Instagram and Facebook, Aki's Breadhaus is moving to a larger location next to Broken Clock Brewing at 1712 Marshall.

Oooh, that's what they're up to in there. That'll be nice - Frgmnt's been pretty lonely on that block ever since Pivo's bold attempt to be a beer bar that closes at 8pm sharp ran out of steam.

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 freque...

All Aboard Minnesota has an update in their Q1 Newsletter. Still no start date, but apparently operating agreements are nearing completion. The service will be named the Borealis. Thematically appropriate if the long-term intent is to combine it with NLX once that gets going.

I really like the idea of a rink in Gateway Park. And it might be easier to fund it there than elsewhere - as the only normal MPRB park (the riverfront stuff is a regional park, and the Commons is a whole separate district) in the Downtown West neighborhood, it's the only place that the park dedicat...

As for the study, I'd been waiting for it to come out, but I was surprised to see three separate MSP-points south trains in addition to the restored Chicago-Seattle North Coast Hiawatha, which is in a little more advanced stage of planning - it got a $500k FRA grant from the BIL a couple months ago....