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Yikes.

University Ave is a bad walking street because it's 120' wide, and because two car lanes were kept in each direction. Still, the version with the LRT is an improvement over what previously existed. Broadway would be a tighter fit, with just about 80' of width. But that's an excuse to remove two lan...

I remain deeply skeptical that you could run LRT down Broadway without making it a worse street than it currently is, or at least without locking in its current deep hostility to people walking. As great as the Green Line is, the University Ave that came out of it just isn't a good street for how wi...

Considering the difficulty of getting 4 votes on the council to even discuss reducing lanes...

Right, it's apples and oranges. And you have to keep in mind that the cost of underground stations is enormous.

MnDOT looking to upgrade the signals at Blue Line and 35th St: https://metrocouncil.org/Council-Meetin ... d-TIP.aspx

How would a mill and overlay be less expensive? The entire road needs to be re-engineered, and overlay seems to just be kicking the can down the road due to some fundamental issues of where and how it is constructed. This is correct. It's unfortunate the article wasn't able to deal with this in mor...

The FTA changed their modeling assumptions last year in ways that put a bigger emphasis on parking. The planners are confident they can make changes that bring the rating back up without impacting the project timeline.

Note that this is a category for the next round of regional solicitation, i.e. available for 2024-25.

18th is narrow enough that it wouldn't be a very satisfying parkway.

Not sure if it was mentioned anywhere else here, but the TAB recently revised their funding criteria to create a set-aside category of $25m to "provide funding to deliver one complete arterial bus rapid transit project. Previous solicitations did not make room for these larger projects and required ...

This is an attempt to get ahead of efforts to end these stops entirely, on the basis that these stops are more often pretexts by police to detain and investigate someone they find suspicious, often on grounds that would otherwise be impermissible (esp. bias). I don't see those advocates finding this...

Though I don't fully understand the desire to bend over backwards to save businesses that can only stay afloat by paying employees unlivable wages. It's the natural dynamic of economic privilege. If you can afford to eat at these restaurants, generally speaking you haven't experienced what it was l...

The project assumes comparable improvements to the Wisconsin tracks if/when Minnesota finds funding. WisDOT has been putting a lot of pressure on MnDOT to get this going while the political climate there is relatively favorable. The big construction projects are new sidings and a new station in Wino...

Opat and Norback have been speaking privately for years to numerous parties who might have a say in whether the project goes forward, including policymakers, environmentalists and American Indian tribal leaders. The two said they’ve asked for criticism and looked for red flags, but haven’t seen or ...

It would be a travesty if the city permitted Mortenson to demolish that block. This block, the Day Block-Periscope stretch, and the Runyon's block at the other end of downtown are basically the only remains of the historic downtown Minneapolis business district.

An interesting contrast is the MN-28/29 (Minnesota Ave) project in Glenwood, which 4-3'd the highway and added protected bike lanes.

To say nothing of the non-monetary consequences of fare enforcement.

Frogtown Neighborhood Association and Summit-U are teaming up to fight it: https://www.facebook.com/events/590684478164795/ The Alatus Development project located on Lexington Avenue; the old dirty snow pile lot that Wilder is selling to Alatus. The Amherst H. Wilder Foundation https://www.facebook....

You can try to make it up piecemeal, but it's almost inconceivable how Hennepin will find that many units at a price the county can afford. There just aren't a lot of opportunities like the Drake Hotel that combine large numbers of units, a central location (easily busable for kids), low prices, and...