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by DanPatchToget
March 4th, 2024, 2:20 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Replies: 1194
Views: 553739

Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar

The problem with Riverview is that it is a solution in search of a problem. It is a transit line that doesn't increase capacity or speed. It's basically a streetscaping project to increase land values and development. All the largest cost drivers are to tie it into the Blue Line so that it isn't a ...
by DanPatchToget
March 4th, 2024, 1:15 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Replies: 1194
Views: 553739

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.
So what's good rail transit to you, and what do you think is a reasonable cost for that?
by DanPatchToget
March 4th, 2024, 10:57 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Replies: 1194
Views: 553739

Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar

I looked at the specs for the Siemens S70 streetcar and the New Flyer Xcelsior articulated bus. Here's the links to them: https://assets.new.siemens.com/siemens/assets/api/uuid:84a2a884b764be46b8410cd8ab45d52bca0deda8/atlanta-s70-data-sheet.pdf https://www.newflyer.com/bus/xcelsior-charge-ng/ Specs ...
by DanPatchToget
March 3rd, 2024, 8:54 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Replies: 1194
Views: 553739

Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar

Look, I know LRT is best for Riverview, but quite a few of you are making perfect be the enemy of good. I think there should instead be a focus on the options Ramsey County has put on the table and advocating for the best one, which is Streetcar Option 1. It's not LRT, but it's pretty close to it w...
by DanPatchToget
March 2nd, 2024, 9:40 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Suburban Transit (Opt-out Services Providers)
Replies: 135
Views: 164318

Re: Suburban Transit (Opt-out Services Providers)

I don't see it as a shame to shut down a route that was part of the much bigger Route 494 failure. To me it's a shame money is being burned on these experiments that are doomed to fail, especially the express routes that pretty much only serve suburban park & rides and light commercial/industria...
by DanPatchToget
March 2nd, 2024, 6:34 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Replies: 1194
Views: 553739

Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar

Look, I know LRT is best for Riverview, but quite a few of you are making perfect be the enemy of good. I think there should instead be a focus on the options Ramsey County has put on the table and advocating for the best one, which is Streetcar Option 1. It's not LRT, but it's pretty close to it wi...
by DanPatchToget
February 29th, 2024, 9:33 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Suburban Transit (Opt-out Services Providers)
Replies: 135
Views: 164318

Re: Suburban Transit (Opt-out Services Providers)

MVTA service changes March 16th. https://www.mvta.com/news-items/mvta-service-schedules-adjust-on-march-16/ Highlights: 4Fun Bus returns with service operating Thursday-Sunday, and stops added at the Twin Cities Premium Outlet Mall in Eagan and Omry Apartments at Canterbury Park in Shakopee. Route 4...
by DanPatchToget
February 29th, 2024, 9:06 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Replies: 1194
Views: 553739

Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar

Streetcar isn't perfect, but it's not doom and gloom like people seem to be implying. Of all the modern streetcar lines in the country I think this would be one of the best. Way better than the short-route streetcars that are only intended to attract development rather than upgrade transit service. ...
by DanPatchToget
February 28th, 2024, 7:55 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Replies: 1194
Views: 553739

Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar

Did anyone attend last evening's CAC meeting? I was on a plane so couldn't. Just curious of the discussions that took place.
by DanPatchToget
February 25th, 2024, 9:19 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Embarrassing Confessions of Urbanists
Replies: 349
Views: 98330

Re: Embarrassing Confessions of Urbanists

I used to be quite a car guy and loved driving. Like most Americans I felt a sense of freedom having a driver's license and a car, until all the costs associated with car ownership plus grueling traffic everyday became too much. On top of that when I studied in Oslo, Noway in 2015 I felt more freedo...
by DanPatchToget
February 24th, 2024, 7:35 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Replies: 1194
Views: 553739

Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar

The Riverview Corridor meeting slides for next week are up. They focus on the Arterial BRT option which would be similar to the 54 bus. It is modeled to have 8,000 riders per day in 2040 at a cost of $121 million and a 40 min travel time. Obviously this is much cheaper as it is mixed-traffic and wo...
by DanPatchToget
February 18th, 2024, 5:16 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Replies: 2909
Views: 701123

Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)

Metro Transit March 16th, 2024 service changes: https://www.metrotransit.org/quarterly-service-changes-begin-saturday-march-16 83 - Extended to Rosedale and no longer stops at Roseville Target; uses Lexington instead of I-35E on south end of route. Considering the main reason the 83 was traveling d...
by DanPatchToget
February 18th, 2024, 5:09 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Northstar Commuter Rail
Replies: 952
Views: 221631

Re: Northstar Commuter Rail

2036-2038 implementation is absolute BS


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By that time it should be a full-fledged regional rail service on par with the likes of UTA's Frontrunner.
by DanPatchToget
February 18th, 2024, 4:47 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Fantasy maps
Replies: 297
Views: 140360

Re: Fantasy maps

Thinking longer term with a network of regional and intercity trains, even if Target Field Station can somehow be expanded beyond what's proposed for NLX there's still the issue of the freight traffic on the existing rail corridor through there, and that rail corridor is squeezed in with new develop...
by DanPatchToget
February 18th, 2024, 4:38 pm
Forum: Suburbs
Topic: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development
Replies: 219
Views: 85109

Re: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development

So, how did it work out with the city squandering the money of hard-working taxpayers trying to get "just a normal city" there? So you're already deeming it a failure because a grocery store closed? Let's wait and see what happens to the grocery store space, and the area in general before...
by DanPatchToget
February 15th, 2024, 4:26 pm
Forum: Suburbs
Topic: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development
Replies: 219
Views: 85109

Re: Bloomington Central Station & South Loop Development

https://www.startribune.com/a-grocery-store-was-supposed-to-make-a-neighborhood-near-the-mall-of-america-it-closed-in-less-than-four-months/600343491/ Strib article. Seems Bloomington city management had a really niave and iddyllic vision of creating their idea of an urban utopia from scratch and a...
by DanPatchToget
February 11th, 2024, 1:42 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Replies: 1194
Views: 553739

Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar

Keep in mind the $2 billion is in 2033 dollars, not today’s dollars.

Since we’re building LRT to the southwest and northwest suburbs, I don’t see why West 7th doesn’t deserve LRT.
by DanPatchToget
February 8th, 2024, 4:18 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Transit Crime
Replies: 280
Views: 1023652

Re: Transit Crime

Perhaps also roll out some PSAs showing the cleaning crews who have to clean up other people's messes on buses, trains, and stations. Like smoking, it confounds me that so many people just don't care about littering on our taxpayer funded vehicles and stations. I also wonder if having small trash bi...
by DanPatchToget
February 7th, 2024, 10:54 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Transit Crime
Replies: 280
Views: 1023652

Re: Transit Crime

I mean smoking on a train/bus probably should be a prosecutable offense but I think a busy and focused DA office should be spending their energy and attention elsewhere on far more serious offenses. Even if some is caught dead to rights for smoking a cigarette on a train (multiple witnesses, video ...
by DanPatchToget
February 7th, 2024, 1:54 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Transit Crime
Replies: 280
Views: 1023652

Re: Transit Crime

Is smoking on the train a non-prosecutable offense? It should be since it's a health and fire hazard. The latter probably isn't likely, but lighting a cigarette requires fire, and god forbid that tiny flame somehow turns into an inferno.