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- September 25th, 2014, 10:34 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
- Replies: 2031
- Views: 814804
Re: Current & Proposed Downtown Minneapolis Projects
Having attended the Chicago Christkindlmarkt each of the 5 winters I lived there, I can assure everyone that as long as they're selling mulled wine, the Minneapolis version will be a success.
- October 29th, 2012, 7:14 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: I-35W/I-94 Commons
- Replies: 78
- Views: 23604
Re: I-35W/I-94 Commons-
There are no plans to widen the tunnel. It would be way too expensive. I heard it would cost over a billion dollars or some insanely expensive number to do that. I preface this by admitting to the fact that I know nothing about highway construction or its cost, but what about deepening the tunnel? ...
- October 9th, 2012, 4:57 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Type II LRVs - Siemens S70
- Replies: 153
- Views: 32321
Re: Type II LRVs - Siemens S70
How bout instead of a single beep, it does that riff from Funkytown? Edit: you know, bee-beep-boop-BEEP-boop, boo-boop-beep-boo-boop. Oh, yeah. I know. I'd cook up bogus excuses to ride the LRT if it did that. The ultimate in city branding -- sort of like the twangy banjo music on the Denver airpor...
- September 23rd, 2012, 2:29 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line LRT
- Replies: 629
- Views: 257108
Re: Blue Line (Hiawatha)
So, a tiny colored light on the front of the train is going to tell people the difference between green line and blue line....? :roll: How do we tell where a bus is going. By the destination sign on the front of the bus. Same will hold true for the trains. Trains will have MOA or St. PAul of DTWN M...
- July 3rd, 2012, 2:55 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Target Field Station (the Hotel) & Target Field Station (the Station)
- Replies: 1016
- Views: 179675
Re: The Interchange (At Target Field)
I'm a big transit backer, but I hate to admit I agree with most of the criticism of this project... -distance from CBD -splitting LRT platforms to discourage blue/green transfers -large outdoor plaza is not a place to gather half of the year in MN weather -proximity to herc -incompatibility with fu...
- June 2nd, 2012, 8:45 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Mozaic (all phases)
- Replies: 581
- Views: 97290
Re: Mozaic
Having had the (dis)pleasure of inhabiting one of Clark Gassen's "condo" projects, I had a sneaking suspicion that corners would be cut on this one.