urbanMSP

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.

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? ...

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...

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...

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...

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.