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Off topic, but I wouldn't consider North Minneapolis as a place with a lot of eyes on the sidewalks relative to other inner-city neighborhoods.

What does B/E/A stand for? Burnsville/Eagan/Apple Valley?

New designs for the north-south downtown thoroughfare would replace greening previously planned for a low median that separated cyclists from vehicles between Seventh and 12th streets with white, flexible bollards in both directions. What is the point of this? Were those medians really that much wi...

Citylab noticed Columbia Heights new ban on new auto-oriented businesses. http://www.citylab.com/work/2015/12/a-minneapolis-suburb-bans-car-businesses-to-spark-walkability/421872/ Huh, Columbia Heights makes another national think piece. This one's about the changing identities of inner-ring suburb...

Bonus if the proposed schedule holds up: The Cambridge-Target Field train time is ~7 minutes faster than the drive time without traffic.

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Where are they getting the 30,000 number from? MNDot's website says 23,400 for the eastern-most section in 2010. Seven lanes of traffic for that kind of volume is absurd.

As was mentioned before, table it until the streetcar work. I don't see much of a penalty to this option over the current choices.

The largest differences are probably in terms of Social Policy, though even then Obama evolved on the issue of gay marriage. I think I remember hearing Cheny changed his mind on it too b/c of his daughter.

And that whole foreign policy thing...

http://www.minneapolismn.gov/health/living/northminneapolisgreenway On the front page of the site in bold blue there are links to a "2012 Fall Community Engagement Report", a "2013 Winter Community Engagement Report", a "2014 Community Engagement Report", and an upcomin...

Very positive article on downtown commercial real estate in 2016:

http://www.startribune.com/panel-sees-m ... 366133871/

However, sounds like a lot is riding on the success of T3.

I think the standard rail option would best compete with the lower cost bus/drive options rather than air travel. I would gladly pay a small premium for a reliable rail equivalent to the current bus experience. I also wouldn't want to be stuck storing a car somewhere if I was taking to a trip to the...

It is in these spots that criminals prey on customers, employees, hotel guests; all innocent citizens unnecessarily trapped because of the constriction caused by the mostly empty bike lanes.

Looks like the trail will be built as part of the project: Construct a bike/walk path behind the building that is part of the Prospect Park Trail; a trail called out by the Minneapolis Bicycle Master Plan and the Stadium Village Master Plan. West of 27thAvenue Southeast, the proposed bike/walk start...

"The project is grossly out of scale with the rest of the community: more than 700 neighborhood residents have signed a petition opposing the development as it is currently proposed," said John Braun, a lawyer from Thomas Law Group, in the press release. "Given that enormity of publi...

A train cannot be weaponized in the same way that an airplane can.

Detailed Metro Transit analysis of 2014 vs 2015 ridership: http://www.metrocouncil.org/Council-Meetings/Committees/Transportation-Committee/2015/December-7,-2015/Ridership-ppt.aspx Interesting tidbits: - Blue Line ridership is up 12.5% for October 2015 YTD compared with 2014. (Green line effects?) -...

Was just thinking, this is also really the perfect catalyst to resolving the Ayd Mill situation. Hopefully that gets included in the scope of the planned transportation improvements.

Looks like a filing cabinet.

I bet some form of compromise could be reached pretty easily among the adults in the room, but I'm not sure there's any reason to at this point. Might as well go with the original proposal, because these people have no grasp of nuance and will complain if anything changes at all.