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by sean
July 24th, 2018, 9:00 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Eleven - 1111 West River Parkway - 41 stories / 550'
Replies: 381
Views: 218446

Re: Eleven (Ryan Condo Tower) - 1111 West River Parkway - 43 stories / 526'

Why on the property tax map does this show as one large parcel with two parcel ids (2302924440021, 2302924440022)? The parkway shouldn't have a private driveway added just because the plan for this parcel wasn't thought out ahead of time. Limos, trucks, buses and other large vehicles are supposed to...
by sean
April 26th, 2018, 4:48 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Replies: 1749
Views: 976175

Re: Bottineau LRT (Blue Line Extension)

BNSF's position towards sharing the corridor with passenger rail remains unchanged. http://www.startribune.com/railroad-not-interested-in-negotiating-with-met-council-for-bottineau-light-rail/480996701/ An executive with BNSF Railway has told the Metropolitan Council — again — that the company is no...
by sean
April 16th, 2018, 2:39 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Replies: 1749
Views: 976175

Re: Bottineau LRT (Blue Line Extension)

Hennepin County has an interactive map where you can leave notes about walking and biking around the station areas. In the Golden Valley station area I am pulling for a better connection between Theodore Wirth Park and Sochacki Park, which is directly to Theo Wirth's north. Biking from Theo Wirth th...
by sean
October 19th, 2017, 12:56 pm
Forum: Suburbs
Topic: Robbinsdale, Crystal & New Hope – General Topics
Replies: 87
Views: 19487

Re: Robbinsdale, Crystal & New Hope – General Topics

It's really a damn shame that the theater was leveled. Like you said upthread, at40man, would have been nice to put the Hy-Vee in the lower level of this new development. Hope the St. Petersburg finds a new home nearby, and it keeps its charm, but glad at least another surface lot is being removed/r...
by sean
September 20th, 2017, 5:33 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Replies: 1749
Views: 976175

Re: Bottineau LRT (Blue Line Extension)

MPRB planning committee suggests approving the easement for the BLRT parking lot on that triangle of parkland in GV: Resolution Granting 2.635 Acres of Permanent Easements and 10.810 Acres of Temporary Easements Within Theodore Wirth Regional Park and Glenview Terrace Park Associated with the METRO ...
by sean
June 24th, 2017, 8:05 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Road Geek Topics
Replies: 295
Views: 143644

Re: Road Geek Topics

A busy-ish four lane + turn lane road in La Crosse, WI has its speed limit reduced from 30 MPH to 25 MPH. Much drama in the FB comments ensues. The city council voted on the change based on neighborhood input. Background article from the local paper : According to a 2008 city traffic study, the medi...
by sean
May 13th, 2016, 3:26 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Replies: 5265
Views: 1246763

Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)

Don't let the 17,000 pages number scare you from digging in. The overview chapters do a good job of covering the breadth of this project, and are pretty well organized to help you dig into whatever topic might interest you the most. http://www.metrocouncil.org/swlrt/feis It looks like a lot of the b...
by sean
October 19th, 2015, 3:52 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Road Geek Topics
Replies: 295
Views: 143644

Re: Road Geek Topics

From The Guardian: "The UK is quietly replacing roundabouts with traffic lights. The US is doing the exact opposite. Both cite safety and traffic flow. So who is right?" From the article, "The same is happening in other UK cities, which have decided that signal junctions are better fo...
by sean
October 12th, 2015, 9:16 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Replies: 1749
Views: 976175

Re: Bottineau LRT (Blue Line Extension)

County Road 81 bridge recommended for Blue Line Extension trains This is north of the 694/94 ramp. Estimated to add $25-30 million to the project cost.
by sean
July 28th, 2015, 12:44 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Replies: 1749
Views: 976175

Re: Bottineau LRT (Blue Line Extension)

Does anyone with familiarity in how infrastructure project management works know why municipal consent is scheduled at only 15% of design? Why not have a complete picture presented to cities along the route. Everyone can go into the consent process with their eyes open. The Met Council has moved con...
by sean
February 6th, 2015, 3:09 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Replies: 1749
Views: 976175

Re: Bottineau LRT (Blue Line Extension)

Impacts from the stations would spill outside the BNSF corridor into the park, according to Hennepin County. See http://www.bottineautransitway.org/library/maps_and_alignments/d1_parks_maps_6_11.pdf and http://bottineautransitway.org/library/draft_EIS_march_2014/by_section/25D1-Appendix%20E-Conceptu...
by sean
February 6th, 2015, 1:10 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Replies: 1749
Views: 976175

Re: Bottineau LRT (Blue Line Extension)

One other difference with Theo Worth: I believe the extension will run in an already designated rail corridor, so they wont be able to use the "park taking" argument. It already is a rail corridor! The stations will require taking park land. The MPRB should be fanatical in protecting Theo...
by sean
December 5th, 2014, 8:56 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Minneapolis Sculpture Garden & Walker Art Center
Replies: 53
Views: 7458

Re: Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

Survey from the park board about this renovation closes today. Just heard about it this morning myself.

http://www.minneapolisparks.org/default.asp?PageID=1502

Also some meetings listed on there. The fist CAC meeting is on the 10th.
by sean
October 13th, 2014, 8:52 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Replies: 1749
Views: 976175

Re: Bottineau LRT (Blue Line Extension)

I just read an article about TOD on the Green Line from MinnPost . I left a comment on there about how it seems like the community is told one thing about preserving neighborhood character and helping the affordability of home ownership, but that the plans for TOD seem to be about the complete oppos...
by sean
July 9th, 2014, 3:23 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Replies: 5265
Views: 1246763

Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)

What people now view as 'parkland' is really just overgrown industrial wastelands filled with weeds. You can create a park out of land that was once not a park. Check out Fresh Kills Park in New York, that is sitting on top of a landfill. Maybe grass and trees don't excite you much, but many of us ...
by sean
July 1st, 2014, 9:26 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Minneapolis Sculpture Garden & Walker Art Center
Replies: 53
Views: 7458

Minneapolis Sculpture Garden & Walker Art Center

In a couple of recent articles dealing with the Hennepin-Lyndale horrorshow there is a stakeholder document which mentions, "...the Walker and the Park Board are planning to reconstruct the Sculpture Garden in 2015..." Does anyone have more details on what that reconstruction will look like?
by sean
May 27th, 2014, 10:41 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Pedestrian Safety and Infrastructure Improvements
Replies: 323
Views: 92110

Re: Pedestrian Safety and Infrastructure Improvements

This Russian group StopXAM is so awesome. Many good videos on their channel where they block drivers that try to go around congestion on the sidewalk, park in traffic lanes, or park on the sidewalks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGz0CJgAlNc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blUdLaV2e_E gets real - ...
by sean
May 4th, 2014, 9:20 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: LRT Disappointments
Replies: 52
Views: 6938

Re: LRT Disappointments

Extremely harsh winter conditions - extreme cold, large amounts of snow, blowing snow - make for a very challenging environment to operate a train line.
aka, conditions in MN six months out of the year.
by sean
April 9th, 2014, 11:24 am
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Fiber Internet and TV Services, Cord Cutting
Replies: 659
Views: 107545

Re: Minneapolis Fiber

Back in the '90s, I remember people talking about the concept of pulling fiber, and at least at that time you were likely to get reamed by the phone company, even if you were going between two isolated sites, because you had to rent space on their telephone poles. I suspect this is one reason among...
by sean
April 8th, 2014, 1:54 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Fiber Internet and TV Services, Cord Cutting
Replies: 659
Views: 107545

Re: Minneapolis Fiber

I work at USI (but only till the end of the week, getting a new job), and just updated the coverage areas on the order form a couple days ago: https://my.usinternet.com/fiber/ Now that the ground is thawed we will start burying more fiber again soon. Most of this year's planned expansion is in the L...