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University Ave is such a weird and overbuilt road, and its traffic counts drop dramatically the farther south you go. It's 32500 north of 694, where a 4-6 lane divided highway makes sense, but it drops into the low 20s through Columbia Heights and then down to the low teens (12-13k) south of 40th Av...

I like how the existing building reflects almost the entire sweep of the area's history; built in the 1880s as a tenement building pre-railroad trench, converted to warehousing in 1920 when the area lost its residential character, added onto throughout the 20th century without ever fully obscuring i...

It would be nice to see that crossing at Seymour rebuilt some day. Those stairs are a doozy.

DanPatchToget wrote: ↑

February 3rd, 2019, 8:00 am

Also raising the sidewalk and curb for easier boarding.

And especially, making sure everything drains properly once you've done so. Moving sewer drains is ludicrously expensive.

Devil's advocate: If Hennepin County pledges in advance to fill the gap if the state won't, why would anyone at the state feel urgency to fill it?

I don't know for Minneapolis, but at least in Saint Paul the neighborhood organizations are useful for channeling neighborhood volunteerism. There are a lot of festivals and community gardens and the like that only exist because neighborhood orgs are organized around them. I think the Minneapolis 20...

I appreciate how the Cedar Lake trail curves through the Fed parcel in the rendering, instead of the hard right angle that currently exists. Small favors.

St. Paul HPC doing a preliminary review of plans for "a proposal to construct a multi-story, mixed-use building" at 2250-2264 University and 731 Hampden Avenue, which is the east side of the block SW of University/Hampden.

RCRRA has those signs on almost every ROW they own. That route in particular would be the Northeast Diagonal transitway, running through Northeast Minneapolis to a string of Ramsey County suburbs. I don't think it has life in it right now. Here's a speculative map of what it could (have) look(ed) li...

Pittsburgh today has literally half of its 1960 population (604k). How is that even possible? Part of that is the shrinkage in household size, but it's also that Pittsburgh had some very dense neighborhoods that were partially or completely leveled for urban renewal, like the entire Hill District (...

I really appreciate my studded tires. It's possible to do without them but I appreciate the stability and peace of mind. You will lose some speed, but looking at my Strava data, I'm only about 20% slower on studded tires (even with a different, much more upright/relaxed bike) than on my summer bikes...

I'm surprised no one here loves option 4. I'm not that bothered by the extra turns.

Don't let her fool you.

Normally I wouldn't like the prospect of another skyway over Nicollet Mall, especially here since it would further interfere with the 20 Washington vista. But I do like the proposed public skyway access.

Rube Dali wrote: ↑

November 1st, 2018, 2:47 pm

Speaking of jersey barriers, NE corner of Rice and Como has them surrounding the old Stahl lanes footprint. Anyone have info on what's going up?

Combination coffee shop and dialysis clinic.

While I like seeing this greenway concept in all of the drawings, how to greenway planners see this crossing busy streets such as 46th St? The Oppidan project (Cub) includes a new stoplight at Snelling, right? Therefore I can't imagine Hennepin County having an appetite for a signalized crosswalk a...

how she would get the votes to do it, etc. This is my question as well. I like Angela a lot (and would probably vote for her if I lived in her district), but is McLaughlin actively opposed to funding these lines if the votes were there? Even if you had 4 votes, you'd really want 5 or 6 (obviously e...

Considering the stadium was built at McGuire's considerable expense for a soccer team that doesn't make a ton of money, I don't see how the venture pencils out if the surrounding land stays parking lots.

Lasalle is excellent news. Is it the full missing link from Grant to Franklin? Just a few years ago the protected bikeway analysis said "lane removal is not feasible."