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Considering Stanton planned something called "The Eclipse" that looked like this--



It may have just been his taste.

There's no evidence that Walz is unpopular among urban liberals. Murphy turned out to be slightly more popular, but this isn't exactly a Clinton vs. Sanders situation where Murphy supporters are going to stay home. Walz-Flanagan is still a very progressive ticket that damn near everyone in the DFL ...

A little more effort on the materials and this could get a real Florin Court vibe going.

I don't have a strong preference in Walz vs. Murphy, but I think Walz backers tend to overestimate the importance of his appeal outstate. If he does better than Dayton outstate but can't drive big turnout in the metro, he'll lose a close election. The theory of the Murphy-Maye Quade ticket (Erin^2?)...

The reason it was estimated so cheaply is because MNDOT views BRT as "any bus with expensive shelters and an abstract route map." The studied plan had $0 for corridor construction and $0 for right-of-way. It was using shoulders at rush hour and mixed-traffic otherwise, all but 3 eastbound and 1 wes...

394 was included in the highway BRT study a few years ago. 2013 cost was estimated at $47m, which is a bargain compared to the cost of LRT here.

http://www.southwestjournal.com/news/development/2018/05/developer-planning-apartments-at-lake-james/ From the description, this sounds like 3000, 3004, and 3008 James, as well as 1711 Lake. All are owned by "James & Lake LLC". I'm surprised--those houses on James look really nice, at least from the...

I guess one small bright side is that the combined footprints of the two buildings should be reasonably buildable.

If they really wanted, it probably wouldn't be hard to skirt 3 and 5 to avoid falling under the ban.

Have definitely heard it discussed since. But glad it's not happening!

If the 61 is getting truncated to Arcade/Maryland but the 54 extension doesn't run on Sundays, does that mean that Arcade won't have any bus service at all on Sundays?

Hey, so would the Southwest Diagonal freeway. Wonder if the neighbors along Kenilworth would like this better?

Yep. The CCB trail on Jackson connects to a trail on the north side of University to L'Orient, then on the east side of L'Orient to Pennsylvania, then east on the Pennsylvania/Phalen trail to the Vento Trail or north on a trail on the west side of Frontage Rd (ugh) to the Gateway. The part behind Km...

A few weeks ago I saw that crews were ripping up Jackson Street in front of Regions Hospital to complete the Jackson Street bikeway that will go from University Ave to (almost) the river. What a pity that at Kellogg the trail essentially ends a block short with really no indication of how to get th...

Still worth the cost.

Yeah, those bike signals on Washington confuse me to no end. Nothing at all like the actually really nice bike signals on the Jackson PBL.

Would Hennepin really be the best street in south Minneapolis to take car-free? Seems like you could make a pretty strong case for Nicollet instead, between the Mall and the whole Kmart thing.

I don't think removing all cars from Hennepin is likely or even necessarily desirable. The backlash would be so intense that it would probably end up getting reversed, and kill a lot of other great initiatives with it.

I mean, I know you've got your allegiances, but... really? There are other options for moving bikes -- like the Bryant Ave facility, for example (which should be improved) -- but Hennepin is the only option for moving buses (and cars) through this corridor. Until we tunnel. I won't pretend that it ...