urbanMSP

I'm fine with automated enforcement, but do we really think that the people who are blowing through stoplights in cars with expired tabs are going to bother paying a fine they get in the mail?

Have they decided where the maintenance facility for this will end up? If I recall, Sandstone, MN was lobbying hard for that, but a location at either end would seem to make more sense.

Also, wasn't there a desire for layover yards past Target Field Station that were contemplated at some point?

Dare one dream that the project might have enough coattails to resurrect the tragicomedic Cheers bar across the street?

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They denied the accuracy of the leaked images, FWIW. But they obviously came from somewhere.

It's a natural result of designing a road such that nothing can move faster than the slowest bus using it.

More people, but still a fraction of potential voters. In a one party town with RCV, there's just no reason to let a few hundred people (who are likely not representative of the overall electorate) try to dictate who appears on the ballot.

Sure, but digital technology has literally revolutionized their industry in a way I'm not sure even the most competent management team could have predicted, and Shutterfly's business model is very different from Lifetouch. So...

[shruggy guy]

I won't be able to find the article now, but I read the other reason that they're tearing it down is that it wasn't a typical office layout that would be easily leasable. It was designed for some specific type of production work that technology has since made obsolete.

Still a waste.

I'd really hope that at least the central historic portion of the Honeywell building is retained -- it's a very handsome building, it's a reminder of the history of Honeywell's development in Minneapolis, and it appears to have nice narrow floor plates (if you scrape off some of the additions to the...

Remember that diesel trains running mostly empty is expensive and bad for the environment. This isn't like increasing bus frequency on a Metro Transit route, where higher frequencies will easily unlock significant increases in ridership.

It's great when wealthy people commit to building these types of civic improvements. I feel like it used to happen all of the time, but sadly not so often anymore.

The project name could use some help, though.

35E sits at the base of a giant bluff line for most of its route through west St. Paul, and that's what is and has historically blocked the north-south routes.

The problem with both Bryant and Grand was that the layouts were too precious by half, and they rolled out a bunch of "features" that were clearly going to have negative impacts in winter conditions. The revised design for Bryant seems like it's still going to work well for bikers and pede...

If only we had, like, decades of experience to know that plowing curb to curb is actually quite difficult, and becomes impossible once snowbanks reach a certain height such that plowed snow falls back into the street. And if only somebody could have predicted that introducing all sorts of physical i...

Seriously, the city has been designing recent projects without any acknowledgement that it snows here, and the only reason they haven't gotten burned on it until now is that most of the substandard lanes they've built so far can cheat into painted bike lane separation zones when the snowbanks build ...

I haven't been in there since the remodeling wrapped, but the building footprint didn't change, so the dining room is still there, right? They're just not using it? (Which they have been doing since Covid hit, I'm pretty certain.)

1. This should have as few stops as possible. It's paralleling the Green Line, which already does a great job of serving intermediate destinations.
2. This should definitely stop at Huron. The UofM is a massive trip generator.

It's worth remembering that a lot of the suburbs have formed cooperative agreements with neighbors or their county to provide municipal services more efficiently.

When they say first floor, I assume that they mean the ground floor with frontage facing northeast? If so, that's going to become a very congested little area, with a pretty terrible parking layout for a grocery store. Looks like the Kowalski's will be on the upper floor of the old Herberger's (fac...

Please explain to me why these issues with privately owned infrastructure is now the responsibility of the state.

Especially since railroads have been such good neighbors and always willing to work hard and negotiate in the interest of the greater good.