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Lutsen Lodge was destroyed by a fire last night, which is truly unfortunate.
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- February 6th, 2024, 9:46 am
- Forum: Greater Minnesota
- Topic: Lutsen
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4090
- January 30th, 2024, 11:11 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2961
- Views: 754812
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 24th, 2024, 9:22 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan
- Replies: 235
- Views: 168061
Re: Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan
Adam Platt writes in the Strib about the 2040 plan hinging on a transit system the city has zero control over. https://www.startribune.com/the-2040-equation-density-minus-transit-equals-failure/600337693/ 30-minute times come in for big criticism as affecting reduced transit use. Crappy transit wil...
- January 23rd, 2024, 9:54 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2961
- Views: 754812
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
So, why would a card have to be contactless to have it work on a bus? Swiping it worked just fine everywhere else, including vending machines of the era. I'm truly not aware of any transit system that implemented swipe to pay via credit card board moving vehicles. I don't think Cubic or any other m...
- January 23rd, 2024, 9:47 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1312983
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
As long as we're complaining about design decisions... EP Town Center station is directly adjacent to an apartment building, restaurant, and bowling alley. The driveway for that area almost serves as a street grid-type extension but the cul-de-sac by the station cuts vehicle traffic (and there is a...
- January 22nd, 2024, 12:02 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2961
- Views: 754812
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Considering everyone had a credit card and cellular techology was everywhere even back in 2004, why did they buy a system that couldn't accept credit cards on the buses? Contactless debit/credit cards were not widely available in the United States in 2004. The country as a whole was a slow adopter ...
- January 17th, 2024, 8:39 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)
- Replies: 733
- Views: 370151
Re: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)
I live near this line. I would rather see it reduced to aBRT project and priced at 25%. If it’s Purple or aBRT, it will be slow, which will hurt ridership. A reduction would open funds for additional projects, and my vote would be a more useful Hwy 36 project. What are you proposing along Hwy 36? O...
- January 16th, 2024, 12:54 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)
- Replies: 733
- Views: 370151
Re: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)
So, how many dedicated lanes do the Red and Orange Line have? Very Little. Red: Uses the Highway 77 shoulder to bypass traffic if needed. Orange: The tunnel under 494, MN-Pass Lane(but it shares that with carpool traffic), Marq2 So honestly Purple Line will have more dedicated lanes, so in my opini...
- January 12th, 2024, 3:42 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)
- Replies: 733
- Views: 370151
Re: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)
Why is this still being billed at a colored metro line. This seems more in line with our lettered BRT. It hardly looks like its getting dedicated lanes where it matters most. Technically Bruce Vento Trail isn't off the table yet, but I just looked over the 15% design plans from 2020, there is still...
- January 3rd, 2024, 3:11 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 1021491
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
https://finance-commerce.com/2023/12/checking-in-on-rivernorth-development-plan/ Rivernorth development is moving ahead and is asking Metro Transit to put a station at Broadway/Washington, which makes a lot of sense. But in my opinion then the Lyndale Station should be moved down to Fremont for bett...
- January 3rd, 2024, 3:09 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
- Topic: RiverNorth Broadway
- Replies: 2
- Views: 16099
Re: RiverNorth Broadway
The office building proposal at the corner of Washington and Broadway that popped up back in 2022 has blossomed into a proposal to redevelop all four corners of the Broadway/2nd St N. intersection . According to this (locked) Finance & Commerce article, the ION Corp office/production facility i...
- January 2nd, 2024, 8:43 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1312983
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
I've always wondered though how SWLRT's ridership will be reported, since it is an extension of the existing Green Line. I hope it is both reported separate and together with the existing Green Line.
- December 28th, 2023, 1:25 pm
- Forum: Cities Around the World
- Topic: Oklahoma City
- Replies: 10
- Views: 21063
Re: Oklahoma City
1,750 ft supertall, second tallest in U.S., proposed. June and Retiredbanker unavailable for comment. https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2023/12/18/developer-to-build-2nd-tallest-building-in-the-us-for-okc-apartments/71937684007/ https://www.oklahoman.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2023/12/1...
- December 27th, 2023, 8:11 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1312983
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
I went running near the construction in Kenilworth the other day. They've laid several segments of track in the corridor. My untrained eye says they have to be closer than 3 more years of construction. But who knows? Civil construction as far as I am aware will be done in 2025, I'm assume then they...
- December 22nd, 2023, 12:31 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5289
- Views: 1312983
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
SWLRT.JPG Some major milestones on Green Line Ext have happened. South Cedar Lake LRT Trail is reopened between Beltline and France, and a little over 11.5 contiguous miles of LRT track guideway has been laid between EP and West Lake. Sometimes with how done most of the project looks, it hurts that...
- December 7th, 2023, 8:55 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Nicollet Mall
- Replies: 1466
- Views: 586378
Re: Nicollet Mall
Why not just use Marquette and 2nd? The infrastructure is all there and underutilized and I doubt the express bus network is ever coming back like it once was. Connections on 5th St and 7th St become tricky in my opinion, you want them to be smooth and seamless, and Marq/2 doesn't do that as well a...
- December 6th, 2023, 12:59 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: North Loop Neighborhood
- Replies: 1096
- Views: 522717
Re: North Loop Neighborhood
I'm curious if this will be redeveloped or will have to be taken for the Blue Line Extension. Either way it is an ugly car centric building and happy to see it go. on current plans for the blue line it show the building needing to be demolished so i would assume they will be looking to buy it hopef...
- December 6th, 2023, 9:20 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: North Loop Neighborhood
- Replies: 1096
- Views: 522717
Re: North Loop Neighborhood
This is arguably North Loop, but the Wells Fargo site at Olson Memorial and 7th will be closed and sold. Branch relocating closer to North Minneapolis. https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2023/12/05/wells-fargo-close-branch-olson-memorial-highway.html I'm curious if this will be redeveloped...
- December 6th, 2023, 9:19 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Nicollet Mall
- Replies: 1466
- Views: 586378
Re: Nicollet Mall
There was a joint presentation from Public Works and Metro Transit to the Council today on the legislative directive to study removing buses from Nicollet Mall. ( Report version ). Notably, there's a (soft?) deadline in play - Metro Transit needs to inform the FTA by April if there's going to be a ...
- November 30th, 2023, 12:46 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 578766
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
If it's not a fully dedicated LRT, I would rather this just be a bus. Let's not waste a billion dollars and immense amounts of political capital on a streetcar please. This project is also the evidence we need to prove that transit planning in the Twin Cities is woefully broken. The fact that the M...