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by Oreos&Milk
February 18th, 2024, 12:21 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Northstar Commuter Rail
Replies: 952
Views: 219480

Re: Northstar Commuter Rail

New Northstar Study has dropped. https://www.dot.state.mn.us/passengerrail/northstar/index.html 2036-2038 implementation is absolute BS Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Most seem to suggest a 2040 in-service date. That's just a short 16 years from now! I'm confident our train-riding president Joe...
by Oreos&Milk
December 25th, 2023, 4:25 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Replies: 5248
Views: 1218774

Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT

If I was King I'd just run trains from EP to West lake LRT service as an express route then a bus bridge from West lake to downtown via Lake St & Hennepin Ave. Also would extend Greenline Officially to Farmers Market, and Penn Stations. Until the tunnel was ready ..but I'm not so I can't... sorry?
by Oreos&Milk
August 2nd, 2023, 3:06 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
Replies: 1800
Views: 999718

Re: Bicycle Infrastructure

Here’s How to Get Your Very Own Boulevard Bike Rack wow, that's really interesting and awesome. I would never had thought they would just let people build their own bike parking spaces like that. I definitely would have built two one for me and one for my neighbors. Don't we have some bike activist...
by Oreos&Milk
June 5th, 2023, 12:41 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
Replies: 1800
Views: 999718

Re: Bicycle Infrastructure

Shall we invite the children from kars4kids.org to watch as well?
by Oreos&Milk
May 30th, 2023, 7:14 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Red Line (Cedar Avenue BRT)
Replies: 538
Views: 218198

Re: Red Line (Cedar Avenue BRT)

The Red Line 147th St Station received 7 million in the Transportation Omnibus bill to build a skyway between the northbound and southbound platforms. All I can think of is what a waste of 7 million dollars. Yes, a complete waste! However, hypothetically speaking.. If there was by chance a redevelo...
by Oreos&Milk
May 30th, 2023, 6:59 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
Replies: 1800
Views: 999718

Re: Bicycle Infrastructure

Here is a quote from Minneapolis's Vision Zero Action Plan. "Due to a variety of factors, Minneapolis Police stopped fewer than 3,000 people in 2021 for moving or equipment violations—compared to about 16,000 traffic stops in 2019 and about 90,000 traffic stops in 2012" If traffic laws ar...
by Oreos&Milk
May 30th, 2023, 6:48 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Dan Patch Intercity Regional Passenger Rail
Replies: 180
Views: 154933

Re: Dan Patch Intercity Regional Passenger Rail

I'm happy for the dan patch gag order being lifted, but still think ziprail has a snowball's chance in hell of happing (at least the true HSR 220mph proposal) regardless unless they can extend it to Chicago. Ya the 220 mph proposal will likely never happen. But for a new greenfield corridor somethi...
by Oreos&Milk
May 24th, 2023, 8:16 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Northern Lights Express
Replies: 504
Views: 474954

Re: Northern Lights Express

What is the expected service, like hourly or once every 2 hours during the daytime? It can’t be as infrequent as the Northstar line with only just a few trips a day right? What are the projected ridership is it accurate or unrealistic? Just wondering if anyone here has fact based opinion as to if th...
by Oreos&Milk
March 27th, 2023, 7:32 am
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Public Bathrooms
Replies: 20
Views: 12680

Re: Public Bathrooms

When are we gonna make pay toilets legal again? MN State Statute prohibits them, but public bathrooms are too hard to find. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/145.425 Pay toilets ARE legal. Many different subscription plans and locations between competitors. I usually liked Snap Fitness pay t...
by Oreos&Milk
March 27th, 2023, 7:24 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)
Replies: 733
Views: 336906

Re: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)

Wait so the terminus might be in fact a Park and Ride? ...it's beginning to look a lot like Red Line . Somewhere living in the downtowns area is a parking lot fanatic who doesn't drive. he or she is surely the most happy fan of our METRO network. We build all of our lines terminating in big beautifu...
by Oreos&Milk
March 14th, 2023, 4:12 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Northstar Commuter Rail
Replies: 952
Views: 219480

Re: Northstar Commuter Rail

Northstar rail post pandemic study results presentation to Transportation Committee; https://metrocouncil.org/Council-Meetings/Committees/Transportation-Committee/2023/March-13,-2023/Info-1_Northstar-Study-for-Trans-Comm_Mar-13-2023_.aspx Ouch.. I think we need to have a conversation of extending t...
by Oreos&Milk
March 13th, 2023, 1:05 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Replies: 5248
Views: 1218774

Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT

I'll attempt to rank the possible alternatives to the tunnel, in terms of cost-benefit ratio. Hindsight being 20/20, I'd maybe have gone with: 1. Put everything at grade and call the bluff of Minneapolis (Hodges administration, c. 2014-15) to deny municipal consent. In this scenario, Met Council / ...
by Oreos&Milk
March 7th, 2023, 4:26 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
Replies: 1800
Views: 999718

Re: Bicycle Infrastructure

https://racketmn.com/no-nice-ride-bike-share-program-minneapolis-this-year-lyft/ Well this is truly a shame. Nice Ride (and well as Car2Go) was a service that made NOT owning a car superior. You had the flexibility to bike to work and then take the skyway home if it was raining. Or take the bus. Th...
by Oreos&Milk
March 7th, 2023, 3:47 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Replies: 5248
Views: 1218774

Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT

Correct me if I'm wrong... but the entire issue is JUST between The North side of the channel just south of the Burnham Rd. bridge and north of West Lake St. crossing and the challenge of fitting in the bike trail back in once the LRT lines are constructed correct? Knowing what we know now.. it woul...
by Oreos&Milk
February 22nd, 2023, 4:21 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: North Loop Green - Hines - 350 N 5th St(?) - 35 stories - 393'/418'
Replies: 200
Views: 155789

Re: North Loop Green - Hines - 350 N 5th St(?) - 35 stories - 393'/418'

Now visible from the skyway over 4th St between 4th and 5th Ave. https://i.imgur.com/MwZBbLd.jpg Apologies for being a bit off-topic but... Wouldn't it be wonderful if DID Ambassadors were our aggressive champions in helping keep bike lanes clear? Like, they would have traffic control on speed dial...
by Oreos&Milk
February 20th, 2023, 12:27 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Replies: 5248
Views: 1218774

Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT

Can we just fill in the tunnel and do it at grade Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I wonder if an at-grade LRT track AND an underground bike trail would have been a cheaper option from the start? Just imagine, a somewhat-heated winter tunnel to warm up in during a long bike commute during the col...
by Oreos&Milk
February 1st, 2023, 8:04 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Downtown Minneapolis LRT Tunnel Discussion
Replies: 49
Views: 20947

Re: Downtown Minneapolis LRT Tunnel Discussion

Ok I like the idea of an underground LRT tunnel.. I think of the possibilities! An underground connection directly into the US Bank Stadium, A direct connection to the Hennepin county courthouse tunnel/skyway corridor, An merged Hennepin/Nicollet Mall station that provides a pedestrian-only corridor...
by Oreos&Milk
January 24th, 2023, 8:26 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Retail News
Replies: 1432
Views: 472433

Re: Downtown Minneapolis Retail News

...Remember back when we were all talking about a downtown Minneapolis Casino? Imagine if we could find a way to build a casino downtown, imagine an "upscale outlet mall" built into an urban format. Imagine we were able to get Duluth Trading Company to anchor a "Native Minnesota Brand...
by Oreos&Milk
January 24th, 2023, 7:39 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Northern Lights Express
Replies: 504
Views: 474954

Re: Northern Lights Express

That's great news, but we really are going to have a Duluth to Minneapolis train transit line that dumps people out on an outside platform under the 94 entrance ramp bridge? Would be nice if they could lease a floor or half a floor in the Ford Center and build a skyway to the platform or an at-grade...
by Oreos&Milk
November 16th, 2022, 11:25 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Retail News
Replies: 1432
Views: 472433

Re: Downtown Minneapolis Retail News

A lot of talk about building owners needing to attract new business downtown but...do businesses even want to be downtown? My job is mostly remote, but I was in the office last week and walking around during a break, there's no other way to describe it other than a ghost town. It's kind of a Catch-...