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http://www.minneapolismn.gov/www/groups/public/@cped/documents/webcontent/wcmsp-206879.pdf Oberpriller is proposing 10 2-story townhome units in 2 separate row buildings at 2407 2nd St NE, a 0.47 acre parcel with a ~100 year old prairie home. Mix of 2 & 3 bedroom units slated for rental, asking ...

Ehh... It's what, 16 miles of track from Fridley to SPUD, with no stops, in 40 minutes. That's 24 mph or 38 kph. Having just given commuter rail way more thought than I'd like, the numbers off the top of my head for the RER and S-Bahn are ~50 kph, and that includes stops every 1-2 miles or so.

I'm not sure the *best* use of the ROW in the trench is for cars (vs other potential modes that could take advantage of the grade-separation), but I can't say that reducing traffic on University Ave by increasing vehicle connections is a bad thing. I also can't say that adding another E-W backbone a...

I haven't chimed in here before, but I honestly think it would be a bit silly to have 10 or so highway BRT lines all with a color and METRO branding, even if stop spacing and frequencies/span are similar to LRT. I know that the METRO branding conveys a certain level of service, including experience ...

I think I disagree labeling the Greenway "streetcar" as such given its stop spacing and dedicated ROW. More importantly, I'm wondering how the Met Council's studied Highway Transitways will be labeled in our system. They seem to be very similar to the Orange and Red Lines (station location...

Good luck- even a liberal representative from Edina is not going to stick their neck out to propose lifting the gag rule and piss off his/her constituents over this. And the proposal won't come from someone living outside the districts along the line. The city is filled with more liberal, transit-su...

Perhaps the Super Bowl events just prove that Nicollet Mall is better as a pedestrian-only mall, and buses should be permanently re-routed under it.

FTFY

I think David is speaking in the descriptive rather than normative. I can think of probably 5-10 policies in the comprehensive plan that would support something like this going in a place like this, but I can also think of maybe 5-15 policies that could be interpreted to say something like this goin...

Transit is the only thing on the planet that's *needs* to be a regional or state-funded thing, unlike the many other things the city provides funding for in partnership with county, state, and federal partners, including (but not limited to) affordable housing, local streets, collector streets, arte...

Minneapolis and St Paul have a combined population larger than Seattle in a smaller land area (even if less favorable to transit operations) Your snark was anticipated and duly noted. With that said, Minneapolis and St Paul are, in fact, bordered by a bunch of geographic and man-made features that ...

https://seattletransitblog.com/2017/11/13/sdot-releases-2-year-report-bus-service/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Seattle voted a couple years ago to add ~$50m a year in revenue to make transit better within the city. Revenues come basically 50/50 from a $60 license fee and a 0.1% sales t...

Yeah there's a real good hot take that already made that point. If I'm being honest, if you told me that we could eliminate every part of zoning but segregating truly noxious uses that can't be mitigated through design (your standard pig farm or refinery boogeyman) for the next 50-100 years and let ...

We are, of course, veering way off course. But MT is doing a serious study for W Broadway: https://www.metrotransit.org/west-broadway-transit-study and one of the options did include the line ending in Robbinsdale but of course we all really like mixed traffic streetcars. Someone should move this to...

Okay I fully realize how incredibly vain and shitposty it is to self-cite streets.mn posts I've written, but they go a long way in explaining why I feel the way I do about why conventional planning that makes "perfect sense" is wrongheaded, without the need for tons of words here. So. http...

Fair enough. But until literally several months ago the county did *not* have the extra money to build Midtown, and it was slated as a project for the "increased revenue scenario" in the Met Council plans. I guess maybe I'm downplaying politics, but I'm confused how it needs a champion if ...

(Dropping my regular take that we don't need advocates for projects like that, we simply need to come to the table with money. Unlike Nic-Central, which was planned only by the City, Midtown and W Broadway were part of the MetCouncil's planning process and fit within their regional transit system go...

Yeah, Betsy's 2nd/3rds went more to Dehn than Frey (barely), Frey's biggest bump (aside from his lead thanks to 1st choice votes) was from Hoch.

Which.

Well, regardless, it's Frey: http://vote.minneapolismn.gov/results/2 ... tabulation

Still clinging to that definitely-colloquially-understood-and-used-term 'polynomial' to describe a rapidly increasing curve, eh?

^^This is true, and I somewhat alluded to it in my earlier post - not all NLP/Dehn voters left Frey off their top 3, and some of them may have even had him at #2. I have 2 friends who live down in Kenny that voted Frey-NLP-Hodges, which speaks to the fact that many people don't align Frey with Hoch ...