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- April 17th, 2024, 3:25 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 995228
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
This is the second LRT article in a few weeks with a sensationalized headline, in which actual experts or project managers literally say "it's not a problem", "there's no concern", but continues to just credulously quote and both-sides the NIMBYs.
- April 15th, 2024, 9:08 am
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
- Replies: 70
- Views: 34127
- April 14th, 2024, 9:09 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Fantasy maps
- Replies: 308
- Views: 146881
Re: Fantasy maps
I have read that the St Anthony bridge (35W) was designed to be "LRT-ready", and your map obviously takes advantage of that, but I've always wondered what that actually means. Like one lane in each direction could handle the weight of LRT vehicles and rails?
- April 12th, 2024, 12:50 pm
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
- Replies: 70
- Views: 34127
Re: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
I know, imagine the horror of having 6-unit apartment buildings intermixed with single-family homes.
- April 12th, 2024, 12:31 pm
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
- Replies: 70
- Views: 34127
Re: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
Absolutely right - it's all predicated on the assumption that infrastructure has been built *just so* and no further, and any changes (even the small, incremental changes which the bill would have encouraged) will cause it all to hit a tipping point. Never mind that most of the municipalities in gre...
- April 12th, 2024, 11:36 am
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
- Replies: 70
- Views: 34127
Re: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
Virtually no project of any kind gets done in most of greater Minnesota without the city providing financial assistance through grants, waiver of fees, tax increment financing, or tax abatement. This quote astonishes me. I don't even know how true it is, but the statement at its face is an admissio...
- April 12th, 2024, 8:01 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2951
- Views: 724544
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
I read the data slightly different than you, but I still draw most of the same conclusions. I wouldn't say C Line has "no pattern" - it appears to be following the same "January dip" pattern as most of the lines, albeit with a higher amplitude than the others. I also wouldn't say...
- April 10th, 2024, 10:49 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News
- Replies: 239
- Views: 173528
Re: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News
Found the area plan: Study, land use concept
- April 10th, 2024, 9:57 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News
- Replies: 239
- Views: 173528
Re: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News
There's some kind of redevelopment plan for the EP Town Center area (roughly the area along Singletree Ln), written maybe 10 years ago, that identifies the Walmart, Emerson, and Costco parcels for future redevelopment and grid infill. Probably mostly aspirational, but yeah, an extension of Commonwea...
- April 10th, 2024, 8:32 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News
- Replies: 239
- Views: 173528
Re: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News
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, 10:30 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News
- Replies: 239
- Views: 173528
Re: Suburban Malls and Associated Retail News
As property-tax revenue drops, partial redevelopment eyed at Eden Prairie Center The JCP location at EP Center is identified as a potential redevelopment location. You may know its perpetually empty parking lot as the site of Mt Eden Prairie during last winter's snow-fest. It's disappointing that c...
- April 9th, 2024, 7:24 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2951
- Views: 724544
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
I just took 6d6 psychic damage from reading that.Fridley Station: 8/421 (2%)
- April 8th, 2024, 12:22 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 354
- Views: 145793
Re: Interstate 94
Strib op-ed from a few days ago - look at the 2nd one down by Thomas Fisher. He proposes linking the boulevard-ization of current I-94 with building a new I-94 along Pierce Butler Route, which sounds nice and easy in principle but would easily outstrip SWLRT in terms of largest public works project...
- April 8th, 2024, 8:32 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Roseville / Rosedale - General Topics
- Replies: 166
- Views: 88350
Re: Roseville / Rosedale - General Topics
This is exactly why the parking minimums bill is (or *was*) such a big deal. Fidelis can so highly prioritize parking, without any loss of realized value, because every other competing property is also mandated to have lots of (mostly unnecessary) parking. If you remove the mandated parking minimums...
- April 4th, 2024, 8:05 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5283
- Views: 1273029
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
The latest SWLRT problem: Wrong placement of tracks Despite the KSTP-esque headline and credulously framing the "concerned neighbors" as acting in good faith, the real nuggets from this reporting are: Won't affect the overall price tag of the project This is an operational concern, as any...
- April 3rd, 2024, 8:46 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Gold Line BRT - Downtown St. Paul to Woodbury
- Replies: 495
- Views: 156915
Re: Gold Line BRT (Gateway Corridor)
Welp, I stand corrected. So much for my pithy, oversimplified explanation
- April 3rd, 2024, 1:31 pm
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
- Replies: 70
- Views: 34127
- April 3rd, 2024, 10:06 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Gold Line BRT - Downtown St. Paul to Woodbury
- Replies: 495
- Views: 156915
Re: Gold Line BRT (Gateway Corridor)
Plus no tunnels.I mean there's probably something to that... all the players here have a deep history building roads and highways, so it's a predictable target to build roads and bridges even if they're dedicated for buses in the end.
- April 1st, 2024, 9:56 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 354
- Views: 145793
Re: Interstate 94
If they tried to route a freeway through one of the many narrow isthmuses, or bridge it over one of the lake channels, I can't even imagine the level of pushback they'd get from the millionaire mansion owners on the lake. A legal fight for the ages. Or maybe they'd just tunnel it under the lake - wh...
- April 1st, 2024, 6:58 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 354
- Views: 145793
Re: Interstate 94
And let's all be thankful that Lake Minnetonka physically precludes just about any feasible idea for a third ring road.