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by intercomnut
January 23rd, 2017, 3:22 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: C Line - Penn Avenue North Rapid Bus
Replies: 240
Views: 52646

Re: C Line - Arterial Rapid Bus & Penn Ave Community Works Project

I recommend that everyone keep an eye on the CTIB situation. If it does dissolve and Hennepin County is able to double its transit sales tax to 0.5%, we transit nerds need to put pressure on the Hennepin County board to fund these arterial BRT lines. They're a relative drop in the bucket compared t...
by intercomnut
January 22nd, 2017, 9:32 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: C Line - Penn Avenue North Rapid Bus
Replies: 240
Views: 52646

Re: C Line - Arterial Rapid Bus & Penn Ave Community Works Project

Designs for most of the stations have been posted on the C Line website . Comments are being solicited until January 31. Most of the stations stick to what was established in the Station Plan. New information: The 7th St & 3rd Ave station will be in the right turn lane nearside of 3rd Ave. No bu...
by intercomnut
January 18th, 2017, 11:45 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Nic on Fifth - (290' - 26 Stories)
Replies: 1033
Views: 218236

Re: Nic on Fifth - (290' - 26 Stories)

Anyone live here or know someone who lives here?

If so, how do you/they like it?
by intercomnut
January 16th, 2017, 5:21 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Replies: 2909
Views: 701132

Re: Public Transit News and Current Happenings

Am I the only one who's bothered by the fact that they chose to categorize A-Line as a separate service category, but you can't find anything about the "METRO" Red Line? Coz it's run by MVTA, maybe? Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk Yeah, the Red Line's stats are usually reported by MV...
by intercomnut
January 15th, 2017, 4:12 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Red Line (Cedar Avenue BRT)
Replies: 538
Views: 223362

Re: Red Line (Cedar Avenue BRT)

Construction of the Cedar Grove online station is moving along.

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Sorry I couldn't get any pics from the freeway. Figured it wasn't worth it to try to snap some pics while driving!
by intercomnut
January 14th, 2017, 11:44 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Suburban Transit (Opt-out Services Providers)
Replies: 135
Views: 164320

Re: Suburban Transit (Opt-out Services Providers)

After a month and a half, Southwest Transit is reducing the frequency of its new Eden Prairie - Shakopee route from hourly to approximately one bus every 1.5 hours.

http://swtransit.org/route-alerts/route-638/
by intercomnut
January 14th, 2017, 10:26 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Suburban Transit (Opt-out Services Providers)
Replies: 135
Views: 164320

Re: Suburban Transit (Opt-out Services Providers)

Strib article on Southwest Transit's Uber-like service.

http://www.startribune.com/a-public-ube ... 410688675/
by intercomnut
January 12th, 2017, 11:49 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: Northside - News & General Topics
Replies: 398
Views: 247663

Re: Northside - General Topics

Proposal at CoW today at 212 James Ave N: http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/www/groups/public/@cped/documents/webcontent/wcmsp-192029.pdf Interesting site given the block's elevation changes. Also, the residential portion is 82 units affordable, 28 market rate. 0.6 mile walk from the future Van White...
by intercomnut
January 5th, 2017, 11:15 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Replies: 2909
Views: 701132

Re: Public Transit News and Current Happenings

The 62 now basically fits the criteria for the high frequency network, but isn't included. It's probably because it is a fairly small portion of the route, but it seems like they could pretty easily make it high frequency between Downtown and Co Rd B, without too many extra resources. St. Paul's hi...
by intercomnut
January 3rd, 2017, 11:26 am
Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
Topic: L&H Station - Hennepin County - Minneapolis Public Schools site
Replies: 159
Views: 49606

Re: L&H Station - Lake & Hiawatha TOD

Just noticed they made this site Rapid Bus-ready. Raised curb, tactile strip and the bases for the shelter and pylon. Hooray for foresight!
by intercomnut
December 24th, 2016, 4:08 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: A Line - Arterial Rapid Bus
Replies: 477
Views: 70663

Re: A Line - Arterial Rapid Bus

Metro Transit really does not want to start branching the aBRT lines (i.e. having every other A Line bus extend to TCAAP). Looking at the arterial transitways study , the following lines are planned to have shortlines/branches: D line (Shortline runs from Brooklyn Center to Chicago & 56th St) C...
by intercomnut
December 22nd, 2016, 9:37 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Counties Transit Improvement Board (CTIB)
Replies: 155
Views: 23075

Re: Counties Transit Improvement Board (CTIB)

So is all of this assuming the entire 0.5% would go to capital/operating costs for transitway projects?

If so, regular bus operations are going to suffer, what with the $89 million deficit Metro Transit has this year.
by intercomnut
December 21st, 2016, 11:24 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Orange Line / 35W@94: Downtown to Crosstown Project
Replies: 1121
Views: 242114

Re: Orange Line (35W BRT) & Lake St Transit Access Project

Why wouldn't they use the HOT lanes south of 46th? All stations south of 46th are "inline" or "offline," meaning they're accessed by exiting the highway. If traffic is light enough that they'd be able to make that weave from on ramp to HOT lane to off ramp, traffic probably isn'...
by intercomnut
December 21st, 2016, 4:09 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Orange Line / 35W@94: Downtown to Crosstown Project
Replies: 1121
Views: 242114

Re: Orange Line (35W BRT) & Lake St Transit Access Project

What kind of signal and system will the transit way have? I noticed that some of the stations the bus must exit the highway. Will there be signal preemption Or signal priority? Will the bus have its own dedicated lane on interstate 35? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk There will be signal preempt...
by intercomnut
December 20th, 2016, 9:32 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Replies: 2909
Views: 701132

Re: Public Transit News and Current Happenings

Transit (the app) is piloting crowd-sourced real time predictions in Canada. Basically, if someone is using the "Go" feature that gives them live directions, the app will track them/the location of their bus every second and use that to make real time predictions for people farther along t...
by intercomnut
December 11th, 2016, 12:26 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Arterial Bus Rapid Transit Corridors
Replies: 434
Views: 92642

Re: Arterial Transit Corridor Study ("rapid bus")

Metro Transit's Route 272 uses the Transitway to get from Saint Paul campus to Minneapolis campus. I'm not aware of any other non-campus buses that use it regularly.
by intercomnut
December 10th, 2016, 4:31 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Arterial Bus Rapid Transit Corridors
Replies: 434
Views: 92642

Re: Arterial Transit Corridor Study ("rapid bus")

I really like the idea of extending the Hennepin Ave (E Line) to Stadium Village. It would allow for a significant restructure of the 6 south of Uptown, and perhaps an introduction of a local NE-U of M bus line.
Such as Metro Transit's Route 13, which MT hopes to implement between 2018 and 2010.
by intercomnut
December 9th, 2016, 6:48 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
Replies: 1800
Views: 1034322

Re: Bicycle Infrastructure

One would hope that is the C Line is shifted to Glenwood, as seems to be the preferred outcome, that the bus stops would be islands with the bike lane shifted behind them to avoid bus conflicts. According to the C-Line project, there's not enough room for floating bus stops. So there will be sharro...
by intercomnut
November 30th, 2016, 10:40 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Replies: 2909
Views: 701132

Re: Public Transit News and Current Happenings

Washington County will a consultant to look at current transit services and form a long-term plan for transit in the county.

http://www.woodburybulletin.com/news/go ... eeds-study
by intercomnut
November 29th, 2016, 9:59 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: U.S. Bank Stadium
Replies: 2080
Views: 188697

Re: U.S. Bank STadium

Half of that will probably be covered by the contractor because they made mistakes.