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- May 31st, 2024, 2:02 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Amtrak: Empire Builder and Borealis (TCMC)
- Replies: 660
- Views: 425351
Re: Amtrak: Empire Builder and Borealis (TCMC)
The truth is that Target Field Station isn't great and that if Minneapolis wants intercity rail service they should do it right and either A) build a station in NE along the BNSF mainline and connect it to downtown with a light rail to NE or B) build a station along a new intercity rail alignment be...
- May 19th, 2024, 11:55 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan
- Replies: 264
- Views: 181443
Re: Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan
And in the end, none of it matters: the comp plan MERA exemption passed in the last chaotic minutes of the session.
2040 is fully, officially, unappealably back.
2040 is fully, officially, unappealably back.
- May 14th, 2024, 9:29 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan
- Replies: 264
- Views: 181443
Re: Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan
It is pretty funny that you can file a lawsuit and the courts will spend six years on procedural back and forth with laypeople skimming the 500 word articles throughout thinking that they are addressing whether or not the thing is good or bad. Agree - a little civic literacy would be nice. Elected ...
- May 13th, 2024, 1:39 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan
- Replies: 264
- Views: 181443
Re: Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan
It would seem to my (not-yet-legally-trained) eyes that this more or less ends it, right? By the time Smart Growth provides the "evidence" (that doesn't exist) that 2040 violates MERA, either the legislature will have exempted comp plans, or 2050 planning will have begun (and god help us a...
- May 13th, 2024, 11:24 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan
- Replies: 264
- Views: 181443
Re: Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan
Get your projects approved while you can, folks.
- May 1st, 2024, 3:47 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Red Rock Corridor
- Replies: 62
- Views: 12318
- April 30th, 2024, 4:48 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Red Rock Corridor
- Replies: 62
- Views: 12318
Re: Red Rock Corridor
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240430/95cb02a2be52bb3511f37c4f670fd4ef.jpg Apparently Red Rock corridor is switching to light rail, which is the silliest thing in the world. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Uh, what? A light rail from St. Paul to Woodbury by the government commission currentl...
- April 29th, 2024, 1:00 pm
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
- Replies: 79
- Views: 47440
Re: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
Dibble's just looking for a way to stick it to the Met Council after they went behind his back and killed his insane "reform" proposal.
Hornstein is the only person who could kill this (or maybe Walz, if MNDOT lobbies hard enough,) and I don't think he'll step in the way.
Hornstein is the only person who could kill this (or maybe Walz, if MNDOT lobbies hard enough,) and I don't think he'll step in the way.
- April 25th, 2024, 4:49 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5296
- Views: 1331379
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Also, it doesn't really matter if the 25' is "necessary" or is a "requirement" or "guideline", does it? If the plans specified 25', that's what should have been built. If the plans didn't specify 25', then we have to ask why the public was told that there would be 25' ...
- April 24th, 2024, 9:23 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 372
- Views: 162750
Re: Interstate 94
So, was your list ordering the options from least likely to most likely from a political/economic standpoint? No, that was my ranking of personal preference. I'd prefer full removal to a modified freeway, a modified freeway to a surface arterial, and a surface arterial to an expanded freeway. Just ...
- April 24th, 2024, 11:03 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
- Replies: 1407
- Views: 661579
Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects
I've heard that the facing of the tactile strips towards the crosswalk helps guide those who are blind better than one that faces directly into the middle of the intersection. Intuitively, that makes a lot of sense to me -- but then why would they use the fully radiused ramps in some instances? I'm...
- April 23rd, 2024, 11:47 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 372
- Views: 162750
Re: Interstate 94
What does total removal look like? Does that mean no road there at all? Not even a city street? If the area is going to be redeveloped at all, I'd imagine to some degree some infrastructure would need to be built. Remember that 94 today through St. Paul is only one block wide. Really, you wouldn't ...
- April 23rd, 2024, 11:43 am
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
- Replies: 79
- Views: 47440
Re: 2023-24 Minnesota Legislature
https://finance-commerce.com/2024/04/effort-to-revive-minneapolis-2040-plan-moves-forward-in-minnesota-house/ Dueling lobbyists at the end of it. The lobbyist against the bill clarifying that city plans do not need a deep environmental review claims there are not enough votes in the house to pass. ...
- April 23rd, 2024, 11:13 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Interstate 94
- Replies: 372
- Views: 162750
Re: Interstate 94
I'm also still very unconvinced that there's any scenario in which MNDOT's 'boulevard' would be "a truly desirable parklike transportation corridor, with real transit service." It remains exceedingly more likely that MNDOT would build a six-lane stroad akin to Olson Memorial Highway. My gu...
- April 22nd, 2024, 1:17 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2977
- Views: 774512
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
I think the Met Council is lobbying for J, K, and L funding in the bonding bill this year, but I think they're only getting the remaining funding for the H Line.
Not to mention that Dibble is trying to make bus projects even more expensive. Last year was two steps forward; this year is one step back.
Not to mention that Dibble is trying to make bus projects even more expensive. Last year was two steps forward; this year is one step back.
- April 22nd, 2024, 10:07 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5296
- Views: 1331379
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
That is not, in fact, how it's supposed to work.And complaining about residents monitoring/measuring a public works project in their neighborhood? That's how it's supposed to work.
- April 22nd, 2024, 9:07 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2977
- Views: 774512
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Per an email from Friday: F Line construction will begin in 2028 instead of 2025, to take advantage of MnDOT's broader work on the whole Central corridor. That will probably mean that the line will launch with the final pick of 2029 instead of the final pick of 2026, although Metro Transit notes th...
- April 20th, 2024, 8:50 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Gold Line BRT - Downtown St. Paul to Woodbury
- Replies: 495
- Views: 178140
Re: Gold Line BRT - Downtown St. Paul to Woodbury
If they had eminent domained her off the property, she would've gone crying to the Pioneer Press complaining about that too. Really though, they are doing her a favor. Once the Gold Line is completed, she'll be able to sell her lot for far more than 200k. There will be TOD to support this station (...
- April 19th, 2024, 2:37 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Gold Line BRT - Downtown St. Paul to Woodbury
- Replies: 495
- Views: 178140
Re: Gold Line BRT - Downtown St. Paul to Woodbury
If they had eminent domained her off the property, she would've gone crying to the Pioneer Press complaining about that too. Really though, they are doing her a favor. Once the Gold Line is completed, she'll be able to sell her lot for far more than 200k. There will be TOD to support this station (a...
- April 19th, 2024, 8:19 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Gold Line BRT - Downtown St. Paul to Woodbury
- Replies: 495
- Views: 178140
Re: Gold Line BRT - Downtown St. Paul to Woodbury
File this under "Articles slandering the Met Council for a perfectly reasonable decision."