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Finding and lobbying Minneapolis city council members (and the mayor), and Hennepin County Commissioners is an actionable thing.

Short/mid-term it may not make sense to through-route midtown streetcar/LRT with the greenway extension, though they should still preserve some extra ROW for future transit. Along with initially extending the greenway, Ayd Mill Rd reconstruction is on the horizon now. It's a great opportunity to tea...

Multimodal wrote: ↑

December 8th, 2018, 8:38 am

How do Met Council & cities deal with a need for retrofitting bigger pipes in existing areas? Who ends up paying? How long does it take? Is it discouraged?

Plus 1. Are there any guidlines or precedents for the Met Council/Cities dealing with this?

So I've been doing some holiday bike browsing/shopping lately. Is there anything I should look for (or common decisions to make) when it comes to ebikes? Also, are there any good holiday deals for bikes/ebikes? Since I'm looking for a utility-focused bike, stuff like this post (below) is pretty help...

I hope that map isn't a final design, since it looks kinda rough. Pretty great seeing all of those routes on the official metro map, though!

I just want to point out, Tin Cup was going to move to Vadnais Heights specifically, which Bob Fletcher is/was the mayor of. Now that Fletcher is (unfortunately) the sheriff, they say they will stay. Smells like politics to me.

New gas stations happen occasionally (rarely?) inside the loop. A new holiday gas station was built after MNDOT put in a diamond interchange at Hwy 36/English St. Probably not many other recent examples.

Wasn't the WBL park and ride going to be at the Mariana Triangle station? Do we really need this too? If this was also a district parking ramp with price controls to manage the supply, and it led to local businesses giving up some parking lots for development, it would be a positive. I doubt either ...

mattaudio wrote: ↑

October 12th, 2018, 10:38 am

Lots of family-friendly 2 BR units in the mix.

It's not family-friendly unless it's a mansion with at least 10 bedrooms and a cleaning staff.

The url looks like "Iowa46.com"

Do people actually get paid to design bad branding, or does this happen to save money? What degree do I need to string acronyms together?

To comment on two things: The "Maplewood Mall" station goes to the transit center and park and ride ramp in the SW corner outlot. It doesn't go directly to the mall, but it is important for transfers to other bus routes (54, 64, 80, 219, 223, express buses) and it does provide access to structured p...

EOst wrote: ↑

September 28th, 2018, 4:11 pm

Wow. They cut the entire Vision Zero section.

How progressive!

(not)

For me, I think of the Phalen Village Community Garden close to home, by Maryland Ave and Hazelwood. It certainly provides valuable green space, but it can't literally feed the neighborhood. Cano could really use a better track record of promoting helpful policy instead of feel-good solutions. There...

Yay for the potential "Cook Avenue" station for the Hmong Village shopping center!

His snark is probably for the same reason I'm snarky about urban farming. It's often a feel-good solution that takes the place of other, better solutions. A grocery store (or even a corner store) does a lot more to fix a food desert, while actual farmland outside of the city is far more efficient/ef...

No route 54 extension/E 7th aBRT?

Wenonah sounds like Winona when spoken, so there could be confusion regarding both how to spell it and which one it is.

They could have built themselves parking with the $100k+ they wasted.

If you haven't already, you can see the shenanigans going on via WedgeLive on Twitter:

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It looks like they're eliminating a lot of "school trips", is that where they're getting the hours to reinstate service elsewhere?