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The St. Paul City Council is expected to approve plans for a 300-page blueprint on the Mississippi riverfront. Details include establishing a preserve at Pig’s Eye Lake and adding improvements to Crosby Park, the Watergate Marina and the old Island Station. It also mentions giving better neighborhoo...

I remember reading years ago that Mendota Heights wanted to develop the Mendakota golf coarse into its future town center. If that ever came to fruition, I could see a streetcar line working down Dodd Rd easily - especially with all the jobs in the Eagan corridor. As for 52 though I think building a...

I always get annoyed by exits that don't have short dashes between the through lanes on the main highway and the lanes that are going away. Mn/DOT gets pretty inconsistent about that. There are also a few places where the short dashes go on for way too long and/or there's an "Exit Only" s...

Speaking of double lane exits, where only one is an exit only...
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Those arrows are huge! They should copy Omaha and put the arrows on the bottom of the sign.
Heres what a properly made sign could look like here:

On the topic of control cities...why don't we use control cities, regions, or names more in the Twin Cities area on road signs? Not a bad idea. Using Albert Lea for 35 south is equivalent to using Tomah for 94 east. Barely anyone is actually traveling to Albert Lea. I'd rather see Des Moines or eve...

Do they really plan on removing those connecting arches from the top of the Hennepin Avenue Bridge? It might just be lazy animation but I think it looks kinda cool. It fits better with the surrounding architecture at least.

I have to agree with fehler. Having the line run through Savage on route to Mankato might be a bit to much of a detour. I think a bridge closer to Chaska would be the best balance between service and speed. If Shakopee were to get rail, an east/west LRT line down 13 or 42 might not be a bad idea onc...

The green line should extend to downtown White Bear Lake. They'd never leave out that stop if the route was actually built.

Eluko, I take it you're also the Eluko79 who posts the driving vids on youtube? Any updates with this WBL alignment idea? I like it. Yep, thats me. 8-) I haven't thought of anything to drastic but rerouting it to first looks like the better idea over the trench. With the red rock gaining momentum t...

Transit riders will always lean towards the short term and engineers will always lean towards the long term. Calling it a money sucking operation doesn't make sense though considering we've been building non profit highways since 1920. With fared transit you at least have the opportunity to break ev...

There are 2 different WBL studies, One leading through Roseville and Northeast to Mpls and one heading south through Maplewood to StP. The line heading south through Maplewood will pass union station but will still likely end in downtown.

Could one still call it the "Greenway" with motorized vehicles running through it? The hardcore metro riders get crazy ideas sometimes. Sure a bus would be cheap and quick but it would kill out the chances of there ever being an LRT to Westgate or a proper Mpls streetcar network. Transit r...

If the trench was part of a future project to build a "green line bypass" to St. Paul I'd be more for it, but at the projects current length, the LRT is to extravagant. With streetcars you could extend the project to E Lake as well as encourage future possible routes to get built.

You dont need a route to WBL down University Ave to justify a route down Snelling. The road alone is busy enough to support its own line. You could even extend it north to the army lands if they end up building something big there. Once a new study is done on the original WBL corridor, the route won...

I think Humphry and Lindbergh would agree.

How many colors are recognizable by the general public anyway? 10? 15? All the pretty ones are being taken and we barely have a network built. And no ones going to want the pink, brown, white, yellow and black lines.

If St. Paul gets streetcars you should connect them to their own downtown. It looks like Minneapolis is stealing Snelling ave.

Robert - would it cross over to West St. Paul. And where would it terminate? Yes. The Robert St Corridor is already under study to be a future transit route but the mode isn't yet decided. A BRT down 52 ending in Inver Grove with a streetcar down Robert ending at the county service center would be ...

I draw fantasy maps quite a bit but they never look this nice. Very well made! I also like the fact that you kept it within the realm of possibility. The St. Paul side could use some attention though. Streetcars down Rice, Robert, Grand, and Payne Ave have been discussed for potential routes in the ...

Maybe this photo is deceptive but it makes me believe putting LRT in the trench plus a double track heavy rail line would be quite difficult. It could be a problem, but if a shared schedule is at all possible it would save millions on the project. If not, then there's always room on either First, H...