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- April 12th, 2024, 1:28 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2935
- Views: 713762
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
My "days since I've seen someone doing hard drugs on a train" counter is now at "don't recall specifically," which is nice. The "days since I've seen someone doing hard drugs at a train station" counter is at two, though. I did see a UMPD cop physically push a guy off t...
- April 10th, 2024, 8:53 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News
- Replies: 239
- Views: 170896
Re: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News
I will unironically go to Asia Mall before 2035, when the train opens. It's actually pretty far away!EP's biggest culinary destination - Asia Mall - is actually pretty close to the Town Center station, at least as the crow flies.
- April 9th, 2024, 11:26 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News
- Replies: 239
- Views: 170896
Re: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News
If they're going use TIF, they should at least try to get an Olive Garden or something over there--when the train opens in 2032 I will definitely take it out to the mall once for fun and it looks like Applebee's is currently the best suburban chain option they've got.
- April 6th, 2024, 5:04 pm
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
- Replies: 68
- Views: 33432
Re: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
I would be interested to read some more behind the scenes reporting about why it didn’t work out. Reading between the lines a bit (and there’s something extra annoying about the word salad quotes from electeds on this one) it seems like the opposition was largely coming from the metro suburbs, which...
- March 25th, 2024, 6:40 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5276
- Views: 1257287
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
It's so wild to have followed this project for two decades and periodically have new political, professional, or computer characters emerge and assure me that, clearly, there's nothing to see here--all is well. It's a huge self-own on my part. Am I still going to be doing this in 2030? Very humbling.
- March 21st, 2024, 9:05 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
- Replies: 1392
- Views: 611425
Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects
That’s what I thought but figured that couldn’t be right.old timey cameras
- March 20th, 2024, 8:50 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
- Replies: 1392
- Views: 611425
Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects
What are inside the red circles with the lines through them?
- March 14th, 2024, 8:55 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Uber/Lyft
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3892
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
I don't use it very often without a smartphone, but every two or three months with a group we might take a bus somewhere, and then get a car home at 1:30 AM instead of waiting for a bus. If they were to pull out (which seems extremely unlikely--you'd have to think the state will preempt it) probably...
- March 10th, 2024, 10:51 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Southdale Area - Edina
- Replies: 798
- Views: 248936
Re: Southdale Area - Edina
If they're trying to inch up market a bit, hopefully someone will think to buy a vacuum for the movie theater.
- March 3rd, 2024, 12:01 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1194
- Views: 558324
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
I don't even think it's as thought out as politicians wanting to go to a ribbon cutting or spread out money to other side of the metro. It feels like it's more about the expectation that a government of a certain size has an office full of people whose job it is to talk about transit planning stuff....
- February 29th, 2024, 7:21 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1194
- Views: 558324
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
If I had to pick between this combined with the incoming huge flop of the Gold Line, and a $2.5 billion transit museum in downtown St. Paul, I'd maybe go with the museum. You could put a little train in the food court and ride it around .Ramsey County needs to get some love, so probably.
- February 29th, 2024, 2:54 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1194
- Views: 558324
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
So do any of you guys think this is actually going to happen?
- February 22nd, 2024, 9:36 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
- Replies: 2031
- Views: 792205
Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
I regret never going to the Pizza Hut sports bar...
- February 16th, 2024, 12:58 pm
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Metropolitan Council
- Replies: 178
- Views: 60490
- February 16th, 2024, 10:01 am
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Metropolitan Council
- Replies: 178
- Views: 60490
Re: Metropolitan Council
Man could you imagine a more cohesive super region. more equal transportation network, more spread out response to low income housing. Maybe even being able to equitably spread out school funding across the entire region. Obviously bigger isn't always better for bureaucracies but it could be cool I...
- February 15th, 2024, 11:25 pm
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Metropolitan Council
- Replies: 178
- Views: 60490
Re: Metropolitan Council
My actual best case scenario idea is that every unit of government in the metro area should be rolled into the Met Council, which would then be elected and coherent and understandable to normal people. A little too wacko to suggest, though.
- February 14th, 2024, 12:57 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development
- Replies: 219
- Views: 87761
Re: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development
Not that I'm the market for it, but I was surprised to see "oh, there's an Oxendale's down here?" out the train window on Saturday.
- February 6th, 2024, 6:09 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Transit Crime
- Replies: 280
- Views: 1025931
Re: Transit Crime
Like all crime data, the number is basically made up--I wouldn't worry about the chart. The situation has been steadily improving for about a year, though my personal "days since experiencing a train fiasco" counter is only at five.
- February 3rd, 2024, 1:31 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2935
- Views: 713762
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Jamie, no!"I don't think that we should let things go unstudied just because nobody has done it," said Bloomington City Manager Jamie Verbrugge, who submitted a letter of support for the study.
- February 1st, 2024, 5:32 pm
- Forum: Updates - Announcements - Problems - Suggestions
- Topic: Forum Maintenance & Technical Issues
- Replies: 385
- Views: 128508
Re: Forum Maintenance & Technical Issues
I have once again forgotten to turn off the credit card autopay for our hosting--you all have an eleven month notice that this is going to go away if no one wants it.