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Design is pretty yikes.

The Minneapolis "numerological twilight zone": https://www.minnpost.com/cityscape/2015 ... light-zone

I think that the long run would be better if certain major avenues in that area were named, but it would be a notable burden in the short run on residents.

Also, the heart of downtown shifted half a mile southwest to around 7th St in the early 20th century. This left the Bridge Square/Gateway area isolated from most commercial/office activity, which led to the Skid Row thing.

I'm always confused as to why architects are insistent on doing this with the new product we're seeing. What's the precedent for 3 stories when most of the remaining original office stock on Hennepin (Lumber Exchange, Masonic Temple, etc.) is 8-12 stories? There is a good chance the original buildi...

Is 16th really that much better, or is it just grass is greener? People in Denver don't seem to love it https://www.denverpost.com/2018/02/03/lets-save-the-16th-street-mall/: Don’t look too closely at Denver’s renowned 16th Street Mall. You’re likely to see uneven and worn pavers, aging planters, va...

CAAPB is working on a reinvestment plan for the area right now, but the current state of Rice is a big barrier. The sidewalks are unbelievably narrow.

The guy sounds obnoxious, but he isn't wrong. Houlton existed mostly to serve traffic across the Lift Bridge, so it's pretty clear that the bypass would hurt their business significantly. I don't know if they would be any better off if the Lift Bridge were maintained for cars, but bikes aren't going...

Me in March: If this came down to a Council vote--if it gets that far--what would a majority for this look like? If you assume the opposition of those quoted in the article [Johnson, Gordon], plus the members who are pretty obviously poor fits for this proposal (Goodman, Palmisano, Reich) you would ...

Banning scooters and ebikes from sidewalks won't actually solve the problem, any more than the ban on sidewalk riding in commercial areas does. Criminalization is a lazy solution to a hard problem. If people don't feel safe riding in the street, make the streets safe.

That's the Nice Ride/Motivate plan. The difficulty with that model is that you need a *lot* of those virtual docks to have the kind of coverage or last-mile usability that a truly dockless system can have. Nice Ride has talked about having 500 of these at launch, which sounds like a lot, but here's ...

I think dockless vs. docked is pretty much a moot point now. Dockless is coming. Our docked provider (Nice Ride) has said their business model won't work long-term with docks. Like it or not, this is the future we're in.

How much extra time could the "detour" possibly take? #1 is around 1900 ft, #4 (depending on the routing) is ~2400 ft. Even accounting for delay at the turns (and maybe at Arcade as well) it's hard to imagine that extra 2-3 minutes being a big deal.

I think 500 is the initial parking rollout, with more anticipated later. They were talking about submitting full site plans to the city for each one, so 500 is a lot for a very limited amount of time. I don't personally love the "dockless bike share, but constrained to a limited number of painted vi...

So long, midcentury.

Would people here really prefer having this level of daily traffic on Park/Portland/Nicollet/etc? There's a lot of space between "the world is ending" and "everything's fine."

Exciting plans, but I guess I'm a little nervous about their impact specifically at Washington/Huron. As I've said before (probably in this thread?), I think there's value in retaining those three corners of historic retail (SE: 1901, SW: 1905, NE: 1922) in the middle of all that new construction. I...

The FHWA is very strongly against these, under the theory that drivers and pedestrians will become hopelessly confused by the shiny colors and carnage will ensue. I'm sure Mdcastle could elaborate here.

I assume that's why Minneapolis chose exclusively low-traffic city-owned streets to try it.

That's an astonishing number of riders on the Green Line. Between Green and Blue, METRO is already matching or exceeding the entire Denver RTA light rail system with 1/3 the miles. If Bottineau and SWLRT were built and only managed 20k daily riders each (well below projections) METRO would come clos...

Apparently they've been under the impression that the bollards were just a temporary thing, and that since they obviously weren't working for the people that moved downtown and insisted on continuing to drive everywhere, they would soon be removed so they could zooooom out to 35W as God intended. T...

That was announced and presented to the DMNA in Aprilish. The residents of the various Stanton buildings around 2nd/11th are raising hell; I'm not sure if it's delayed because of that or if it's still on its slow, secretive schedule. Raising hell about the bikeway upgrade? What are their arguments ...