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- March 4th, 2024, 12:04 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 591790
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Seems SWLRT and Bottineau have messed with our perception of what good rail transit is and how much it should reasonably cost.
- March 1st, 2024, 12:33 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 591790
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Yep what a mess. Maybe they should go back to looking at the CP Ford Spur alignment if it means actual dedicated ROW with 2-3 car trains and better speed. Have Randolph-West 7th become ABRT, with a transfer to/from LRT at Randolph/West 7th where the Ford Spur is adjacent. Then have it come up the hi...
- February 29th, 2024, 11:18 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1769
- Views: 1035797
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Random question, why are we planning to have 4 OMFs when we get to 2 actual lines/services? Because the Franklin Ave and Lowertown OMFs are not expandable? Feels like an inefficient end result.
- February 16th, 2024, 10:21 am
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Metropolitan Council
- Replies: 178
- Views: 73982
Re: Metropolitan Council
You could also make a lot of stuff worse with centralization to that extreme.
- February 16th, 2024, 10:19 am
- Forum: Saint Paul
- Topic: Allianz Field and Snelling-Midway Development
- Replies: 813
- Views: 256275
Re: Allianz Field and Snelling-Midway Development
multiwayboulevardextra drop off street proposed out front
- February 14th, 2024, 12:05 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development
- Replies: 219
- Views: 102161
Re: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development
While it's a dense neighborhood, it's not (yet) a large population to support a grocer. And it's an island of a neighborhood, walled off by the river, the airport, and MOA/77.
- February 12th, 2024, 8:54 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development
- Replies: 219
- Views: 102161
Re: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development
Oxendales appears closed after a three month tenure.
- February 12th, 2024, 11:14 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 591790
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
The last docs show a significantly modified MN-5 bridge, right? Additional columns, like the Green Line added to the Washington Ave bridge, plus a second deck above. But not a new bridge.
- February 9th, 2024, 1:19 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: UrbanMSP in the News
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8705
Re: UrbanMSP in the News
Which reminds me: does anyone want the forum? I believe I got billed for it again last month.
- February 6th, 2024, 2:41 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2977
- Views: 775436
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Has anyone seen the former zoo monorail at Sandland?
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYfdid ... f0Nx7ioOYw
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYfdid ... f0Nx7ioOYw
- February 6th, 2024, 2:40 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Harmonia - 255 2nd Ave S - 25ish / 20ish / 10ish stories
- Replies: 31
- Views: 36662
Re: Harmonia - 255 2nd Ave S - 25ish / 20ish / 10ish stories
Yes, but the underground space is a giant loading dock for armored trucks, not just passenger vehicle parking.
- February 6th, 2024, 11:45 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: MSP to Rochester High Speed Rail
- Replies: 516
- Views: 186055
Re: MSP to Rochester High Speed Rail
I've said it before, but the easiest way to get rail service from MSP to Rochester is via Owatonna. This would increase travel time (driving St. Paul to Rochester is 1:15, but going via Owatonna bumps it to 1:50) but Owatonna, Faribault, and Northfield may be slight trip generators. Lots of options ...
- February 4th, 2024, 10:51 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: MSP to Rochester High Speed Rail
- Replies: 516
- Views: 186055
Re: MSP to Rochester High Speed Rail
That's a little extreme. This feels like another manifestation of a problem I see everywhere, that cities, chambers, and boosters are all about getting and supporting any funding request no matter how valid or useful.
- February 3rd, 2024, 8:55 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: MSP to Rochester High Speed Rail
- Replies: 516
- Views: 186055
Re: MSP to Rochester High Speed Rail
Weird transport grifts/vaporware to Rochester are almost expected at this point.
Weird endorsement quote from Bloomington's city manager was the actual shocker to me in that article. Yikes.
Weird endorsement quote from Bloomington's city manager was the actual shocker to me in that article. Yikes.
- February 2nd, 2024, 8:12 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Harmonia - 255 2nd Ave S - 25ish / 20ish / 10ish stories
- Replies: 31
- Views: 36662
Re: Harmonia - 255 2nd Ave S - 25ish / 20ish / 10ish stories
If it counts for anything, the idea to move the bus facility from Gateway to this project was brought up to some local WF folks involved with the deal who ensured me the concept would get to Sherman and others. But this was now a few years ago and I can prod again.
- January 30th, 2024, 2:49 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 591790
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
The op expense of a non-automated train, the capacity of a big bus. Will this one be stuck behind a Toyota Matrix like the renderings of the one-time Nicollet-Central streetcar plan in Minneapolis?
- January 30th, 2024, 2:00 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 591790
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Train length is another issue... Will these stations only be built for 1-LRV trains?
Hiawatha was built with some 2-LRV platforms but with a pathway to extend those platforms (happened within a few years).
Hiawatha was built with some 2-LRV platforms but with a pathway to extend those platforms (happened within a few years).
- January 30th, 2024, 11:00 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2977
- Views: 775436
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
If they do add the ability to use a normal credit/debit, is there any reason to keep the original go-to card around? Wouldn't it be annoying to have lots of small transactions on a credit card statement, or *particularly* a checking account statement? It's so much nicer to have fewer, larger transa...
- January 26th, 2024, 3:34 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 591790
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
What ever happened to connecting the Fort Road bridge to Shepard Road instead of W 7th?
- January 23rd, 2024, 8:50 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Northern Lights Express
- Replies: 521
- Views: 541928
Re: Northern Lights Express
Biden in Duluth/Superior tomorrow to do his second boast in two years about supporting the Blatnik Bridge project - I can't imagine Amtrak Joe will be announcing anything about NLX during the visit?