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by EOst
March 18th, 2024, 3:25 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Uber/Lyft
Replies: 25
Views: 1995

Re: Uber/Lyft

I took the self-driving Waymo taxis a bunch of times when I was in Phoenix, and I genuinely loved every minute.
by EOst
March 11th, 2024, 10:37 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Westminster Church
Replies: 196
Views: 298985

Re: Westminster Church

Remember when this project was sold by telling the city they would also build affordable housing?

Anyway, the new forest on Marquette is looking nice.
by EOst
March 4th, 2024, 2:35 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Replies: 1194
Views: 545600

Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar

Has anyone here ever actually tried taking Route 54 on Glumack Rd to or from Terminal 1 during Uber/Lyft drop off peak hours? If you had, you would understand the problem with buses on this corridor.
by EOst
March 2nd, 2024, 5:07 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Replies: 1194
Views: 545600

Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar

It's truly hilarious to see people say "apply the lessons of the Blue Line Extension" and then suggest that this line should be diverted to a privately owned rail corridor far away from the destinations transit riders actually want to get to. The money for this line is coming from Ramsey C...
by EOst
January 17th, 2024, 11:41 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)
Replies: 733
Views: 337347

Re: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)

Not to mention that the major Highway 36 interchanges are located in the most wind-swept suburban hellscapes imaginable. Imagine a vertical transfer from a 36 BRT to the A Line in the middle of a cloverleaf. Who's going to take an infrequent bus 20 minutes into the suburbs and wait next to a freeway...
by EOst
January 9th, 2024, 2:45 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Replies: 5248
Views: 1219995

Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT

We could've been a real city:
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by EOst
January 9th, 2024, 10:24 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
Replies: 1800
Views: 1001349

Re: Bicycle Infrastructure

St. Paul stopped doing them entirely, is my understanding. They had been conducted by volunteers with the Bicycle Coalition.
by EOst
September 29th, 2023, 12:24 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: HERC - Hennepin Energy Recovery Center
Replies: 33
Views: 69450

Re: HERC - Hennepin Energy Recovery Center

I somehow think converting HERC to a fossil fuel plant downtown would not be more politically feasible than shutting it down lmao. There's no world where people currently upset with HERC would just go "oh okay, it's a fossil fuel plant now, that's better." HERC is on the way out. It's not...
by EOst
September 29th, 2023, 10:27 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: HERC - Hennepin Energy Recovery Center
Replies: 33
Views: 69450

Re: HERC - Hennepin Energy Recovery Center

Look, there is zero chance that HERC moves and gets redeveloped even if the waste to energy use disappears. The district heating capacity is needed to keep downtown Minneapolis running and there is not a lot of redundancy built into the system. You would need to have the replacement plant up and run...
by EOst
September 27th, 2023, 1:05 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)
Replies: 733
Views: 337347

Re: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)

Both options are being evaluated.
by EOst
September 18th, 2023, 9:03 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)
Replies: 733
Views: 337347

Re: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)

E 7th Street is about to get 4-3'd for pedestrian safety, without any room for bus lanes, which means that any alignment there would likely have significant speed and reliability issues. The East Side doesn't need another mixed-traffic bus on a slow road, it needs reliable, quick transit access.
by EOst
August 21st, 2023, 9:00 am
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics
Replies: 964
Views: 334287

Re: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics

Bandana Square in St. Paul still has a hotel.
They've been looking for a buyer for several years, but I see the property is no longer listed.
by EOst
August 15th, 2023, 10:31 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
Replies: 1800
Views: 1001349

Re: Bicycle Infrastructure

Hennepin County and Minneapolis liked to use this design for bike lanes for a while because it meant that you could count the whole width of the gutter pan as part of the bike lane without having to worry about a seam between the asphalt and concrete running down the center of the lane. Minnehaha Av...
by EOst
August 4th, 2023, 10:27 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Interstate 94
Replies: 321
Views: 136360

Re: Interstate 94

I think there are real differences in traffic reactions between temporary, planned, unplanned and permanent closures (vague sense some snippets of research). Living near Cedar Avenue I can generally tell when 35W is closed for some reason and having bike commuted on Park/Portland during constructio...
by EOst
August 3rd, 2023, 1:52 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Interstate 94
Replies: 321
Views: 136360

Re: Interstate 94

With over 100,000 cars on any given segment and thousands of semi-trucks, the boulevard option would probably be more like an NYC arterial than a parkway. I'm curious to see what the traffic modeling looks like but I'd expect lots of traffic to move to east-west streets like Lake/Marshall, Franklin...
by EOst
December 8th, 2021, 4:04 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Hennepin Avenue Reconstruction (Douglas to Lake St)
Replies: 433
Views: 192779

Re: Hennepin Avenue Reconstruction (Douglas to Lake St)

It's interesting to see they're cutting off left turns on NB Hennepin to Franklin. It seems the alternative there is taking a left at 22nd. Similarly, they're making NB access to Kowalski's via 24th and converting that one-block stretch of Fremont back to two-way traffic. It's hard for me to believ...
by EOst
December 7th, 2021, 9:03 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: RBC Gateway & Four Seasons - 37 stories - 519'
Replies: 2124
Views: 481110

Re: RBC Gateway (Four Seasons) - 37 stories - 519'

I'm excited to see how the lighting turns out.
by EOst
November 29th, 2021, 9:32 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Replies: 1372
Views: 589874

Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects

Removing the Olson name--especially to restore a colorless designation like "6th Ave N," which no one alive today remembers at all--seems unnecessarily polarizing for what is already going to be an enormous lift. There's still plenty of affection for Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson out there.
by EOst
November 25th, 2021, 9:30 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Blue Line (Hiawatha LRT)
Replies: 628
Views: 239684

Re: Blue Line (Hiawatha LRT)

Would that block the wind at all? Doesn't seem to offer a lot of visibility for the trade-off.
by EOst
November 19th, 2021, 9:28 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Replies: 1372
Views: 589874

Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects

Saying that the counties won these grants is not quite right. MnDOT applied for and won those grants, it's just that the projects are located within those counties. In fact the counties often have very little to do with MnDOT projects such as these, where the cities generally take the lead in partne...