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- February 17th, 2019, 6:50 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Amazon's New HQ?
- Replies: 270
- Views: 14886
Re: Amazon's New HQ?
I'm still in for Cheyenne Wyoming. The state is so small, 100,000 new citizens from the tech could probably flip it blue
- February 1st, 2019, 3:42 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Midtown Corridor Rail & Lake Street aBRT (B Line)
- Replies: 518
- Views: 43836
Re: Midtown Corridor Rail & Lake Street aBRT (B Line)
If we're gonna run an aBRT line west out of downtown St Paul (and we should), Grand / Cleveland / Marshall would make the most sense. It'd be a hell of a fight giving up 4-6 parking spots every few blocks on Grand, but that would hit two major universities as well as leave room for some kind of shar...
- February 1st, 2019, 3:32 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Federal Reserve Riverfront Parking Ramp
- Replies: 45
- Views: 4288
Re: Federal Reserve Riverfront Parking Ramp
Hypothetically, would we be be willing to trade this ramp for the USPS giving up theirs?
- February 1st, 2019, 11:33 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Orange Line / 35W@94: Downtown to Crosstown Project
- Replies: 795
- Views: 83265
Re: Orange Line / 35W@94: Downtown to Crosstown Project
Some BRT only ramps and guideway from the freeway around Cliff Ave over to Nicollet north of Hwy 13 would be ideal. Avoid the cloverleaf, aim straight south for Heart of the City.
- February 1st, 2019, 11:29 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 166
- Views: 24648
Re: Interstate 94
It'd probably be more realistic to plan on a Gold Line extension down the median, with dedicated ramps directly to the median at 5th/6th St in St Paul and 7th/8th in Minneapolis. Building stops at Snelling and Huron a la 46th St can still be part of the plan
- January 3rd, 2019, 7:51 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Transitways in other Minnesota cities?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2583
Re: Transitways in other Minnesota cities?
They've updated the article; it now mentions two routes. One from Bloomington to Apple Valley (Red Line) and one in St Paul (A Line I'd presume) By the tone, an A Line type is probably the goal
- December 20th, 2018, 4:13 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Orange Line / 35W@94: Downtown to Crosstown Project
- Replies: 795
- Views: 83265
Re: Orange Line / 35W@94: Downtown to Crosstown Project
Regardless of inducing / reducing driving demand, a full traffic 24th St bridge (with the necessarily lowered freeway) would have made a future cap possible. Since we're not gonna rebuild this chunk of freeway for another 50+ years, that's potentially a big mistake
- December 20th, 2018, 4:07 pm
- Forum: Saint Paul
- Topic: Allianz Field and Snelling-Midway Development
- Replies: 702
- Views: 67124
Re: Soccer Stadium and Snelling-Midway Development
They were cycling the colors on the jumbotron / ribbon boards inside as well (according to the webcam) Possibly "breaking in" the system?
- December 2nd, 2018, 11:06 am
- Forum: Greater Minnesota
- Topic: Alexandria
- Replies: 2
- Views: 357
- November 30th, 2018, 6:17 pm
- Forum: Greater Minnesota
- Topic: Duluth Residential Tower (15 stories)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1201
- November 26th, 2018, 6:05 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: "City" "Place" - Woodbury
- Replies: 133
- Views: 19596
Re: "City" "Place" - Woodbury
Is it odd that my biggest problem is the missed opportunity to connect Hudson Rd to Hudson Rd? That kind of thing always annoys the ^$* out of me
- November 26th, 2018, 6:02 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Labeling the Transit System
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2763
Re: Labeling the Transit System
How about giving hBRT lines metallic colors and LRT lines primary colors? Rename the Orange line to Silver, and Red to, umm, copper? For colors, how about teal, maroon, purple, yellow to go with blue, green, red and orange I have no issues with the mix of colors and letters - colors could represent ...
- November 21st, 2018, 9:24 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Fort Snelling Upper Post
- Replies: 38
- Views: 7441
Re: Fort Snelling Upper Post
Looks like it's happening: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/11/2 ... PAm9gYeySo
- November 5th, 2018, 8:10 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
- Replies: 911
- Views: 101200
Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects
So, in a few years I-94 will be 6 lanes from 494/694 to 610, 8 LANES from 610 to 101, http://www.dot.state.mn.us/metro/projects/i94rogers/pdf/faq.pdf then back to six lanes through Albertville, 4 lanes to Monticello, and then back to six again to Clearwater... And they still aren't sure if they're g...
- October 30th, 2018, 9:08 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 790
- Views: 73011
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
They did have streetcar stops inside the (at the time, much larger) fort, but no big stations. Of course, the bridge that carried them was much farther east than the current one; it was almost to the pentagon north central tower. And, the walls and most of the original buildings of the "historic" fo...
- October 30th, 2018, 4:14 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Mall of America - Bloomington
- Replies: 954
- Views: 122973
Re: Mall of America - Bloomington
Maybe with the coming death of Sears, there would be the opportunity to bulldoze the east ramp and expand the mall in that direction.
Of course, they'll probably say they need $$$ to put 24th below grade...
Of course, they'll probably say they need $$$ to put 24th below grade...
- July 3rd, 2018, 12:00 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: U.S. Highway 52
- Replies: 150
- Views: 21285
Re: U.S. Highway 52
And back in the early 90's planning of what became the mid-2000's reconstruction of 52, they looked at capping the freeway from 2nd to 6th Ave SW
- April 21st, 2018, 5:37 pm
- Forum: Saint Paul
- Topic: Hunt Electric site - 2300 Territorial Rd
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1630
Re: Hunt Electric site - 2300 Territorial Rd
Is this their Union Flats project? 217 units on the corner of Hampden and Territorial, will officially be 787 Hampden
- April 6th, 2018, 3:36 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Furnace / HVAC in older homes
- Replies: 15
- Views: 958
Re: Furnace / HVAC in older homes
We did have baseboards upstairs (the house was actually from 1900 and had been converted into a up/down duplex in the fifties, so the upstairs was separate until the owner before us re-combined them). Depending on how much the ductwork costs, it's probably worth knocking your electric bill in half i...
- April 6th, 2018, 1:27 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Furnace / HVAC in older homes
- Replies: 15
- Views: 958
Re: Furnace / HVAC in older homes
Not sure on the gravity furnace upgrade part, but just swapping out our 1950's forced air furnace and adding AC ran close to $7500 twelve years ago, and that was with me personally running the ductwork to the second floor and basement ahead of time. I can tell you the electric and gas bills in the w...