urbanMSP

What if we had bicycle infrastructure in the skyways? Serious question.

FWIW I also like the two houses and the term 'monster house' is rude and pejorative. The arguments against redevelopment tend to boil down to 'nothing should ever change' and 'nobody build anything, anywhere' types. I think the real underlying issue is that new houses increase property taxes for nei...

There should absolutely be a ban on new driveway curb cuts where an alley is present. Street facing driveways and garages will ruin the character of our neighborhoods faster than any monster houses with bad architecture. Agree completely with you, however, I suspect the out of scale architecture of...

EDIT: Grab Pegman (Streetview icon guy) and hover over the Longfellow area neighborhoods south of Lake Street. They drove down every single frickin alley in this part of Minneapolis! Why? Has anyone else noticed that on the regular map view Google shows the lines for alleys in Longfellow, but nowhe...

It's unfortunate. On the south side of 62, the stroads make the area just sucky. The grid desperately needs redoing here. Plus the frontage roads off of 494 too in Bloomington. All those apartments fronting either the freeway or stroads, I see lots of pedestrians having to contend with that bad urba...

Unfortunately there really is pretty much no midrange apartment market. It's either low or high end. You might look at a house in the mid range, and there's some great houses for rent just about anywhere in the metro.

I lived next to a few tear downs near the lakes (SW mpls) and there's a bunch in Longfellow and Nokomis too. No complains. Construction wasn't loud. They looked nice. Crews kept their stuff near the curb and nobody had problems driving down the streets. Yeah there's big houses going in...big whoop.....

They should replace this entire area with literally a black hole. Because that would be a huge improvement.

It is pretty disgusting how badly Interstate 35W (not to mention 94) harms Minneapolis neighborhoods. And they want to expand it.

I've been to both Montreal and Toronto which have large underground tunnel systems connecting buildings throughout their downtowns. The systems both have retail similar to our skyways , yet both those cities have very dynamic pedestrian activity. Most of the buildings connected to the underground w...

Pipe dream: think how successful the skyway system--and street--would be if it were pumped and became something on an indoor mall, on par with the Mall of America. If you had all the details right: street access, escalators, parking, standard open and close hours, security, etc you could really have...

Why build a tower when you have all that land? Why not a flat squat building?

People know Minneapolis as "that place where the bridge fell down".

We're about the same size as Atlanta. Traffic here in MSP also is horrible. What do we have now, 15 freeways. You can't go anywhere without hitting a traffic jam. It's time to remove the freeways. Urban sprawl is destroying the quality of life here.

Also used to live there, shopped there multiple times per week, never once had parking issues.

The geography of Philips needs improvement. Basically it's bound on all sides by freeways and noise walls. Hospital in the middle (nothing wrong with that) but with 26th and 28th as busy 3-lane one ways. Nobody will want residential property on a busy 3 lane, bringing down the neighborhood. And then...

If spending the investment to extend the line to the new wing can be done I hope it would leave an option to further extend the line down the 494 corridor, say to TH 100. Connect to the hotels up and down 494 and the airport.

Wishful thinking again.

That's a fantastic idea.

People sure get crazy ideas about the twin cities. It is frustrating.

I have a feeling that by the time SW LRT gets build, we will have autonomous cars (self-driving) or be just a couple years away from having them, rendering LRT obsolete. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_car#Official_projections By 2018, Google expects to release their autonomous car technolog...

Going off http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer Longfellow incomes seems comparable to the area around the Trader Joe's in Saint Paul, so it seems to me the area would support a store like that.