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- February 11th, 2022, 10:18 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)
- Replies: 733
- Views: 372223
Re: Purple Line BRT (Rush Line Corridor)
Not finally having high frequency network-quality access to WBL would hurt. But maybe we could see the E 7th St aBRT-ification of route 54 happen sooner?
- February 11th, 2022, 9:19 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Future of the forum
- Replies: 66
- Views: 52412
Re: Future of the forum
It's anyone's guess as to why people start and stop posting here, but a lot of people are also on MN local politics Twitter. He's definitely still alive.While we're doing this, whatever happened to FISHMANPET?
- January 27th, 2022, 12:06 pm
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Minnesota Redistricting 2022
- Replies: 57
- Views: 26101
Re: Minnesota Redistricting 2022
Gerrymandering is bad. Even if it serves the people you like. Just to note, I'd say at least half of that change is due to population growth in urban areas and decline of rural areas, not where the lines are drawn. So we should still see DFL gains from whatever the courts draw. We very narrowly mis...
- January 26th, 2022, 9:19 pm
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Minnesota Redistricting 2022
- Replies: 57
- Views: 26101
Minnesota Redistricting 2022
It really is a shame we weren't able to get a DFL Trifecta. The state legislative redistricting maps that the DFL (Rep. Mary Murphy) submitted would add something like 4 more DFL state senate districts to the current 27 in the metro, and 2 DFL state senate districts in Rochester. There's probably mo...
- January 23rd, 2022, 8:28 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Road Geek Topics
- Replies: 295
- Views: 153027
- January 17th, 2022, 12:14 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Northern Lights Express
- Replies: 521
- Views: 533873
- January 8th, 2022, 10:39 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Amtrak: Empire Builder and Borealis (TCMC)
- Replies: 636
- Views: 415508
Re: Amtrak Empire Builder to Chicago
I feel like more than 2 future roundtrips should be agreed to for such a big merger approval (even if they all aren't shovel-ready yet). We should get all of the Hiawatha frequencies extended to Saint Paul (and at some point Minneapolis/Saint Cloud).
- December 7th, 2021, 3:55 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
- Replies: 1407
- Views: 651457
Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects
That looks great, now we just need that layout for Lake Street!!
- November 7th, 2021, 5:55 pm
- Forum: Saint Paul
- Topic: Saint Paul enacts rent control
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15042
Re: Saint Paul enacts rent control
I was thinking about this a couple days ago, but I have a prediction: the Rent stabilization Ordinance won't actually impact profitability or Operations in a direct way. But because the people who make decisions believe it will, they will act accordingly, causing the negative effects to happen despi...
- November 2nd, 2021, 12:36 pm
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Minneapolis 2021 Elections - Mayor, City Council, BET, Park Board
- Replies: 167
- Views: 66828
Re: Minneapolis 2021 Elections - Mayor, City Council, BET, Park Board
Wasn't the spark that turned the protests into riots when "umbrella man" smashed the windows at AutoZone? "Umbrella man" was the spark that let loose a lot of destruction, but the spark could have been any act similar to that. The cause (the gasoline the spark ignited) was a bui...
- November 2nd, 2021, 12:03 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2970
- Views: 760678
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
The only way this gets fixed might be intervention from a DFL-controlled state legislature or a recession. We're still a while away from either tho.
- October 27th, 2021, 12:35 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Northstar Commuter Rail
- Replies: 952
- Views: 247644
Re: Northstar Commuter Rail
According to Google maps, it would take 1 hour and 18 minutes to drive from Big lake to downtown, starting and stopping at all of the currenr Northstar stations. I would imagine that's as fast as a bus could make the trip. That doesn't include any traffic and it doesn't include any dwell time at eac...
- October 26th, 2021, 4:11 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Northstar Commuter Rail
- Replies: 952
- Views: 247644
Re: Northstar Commuter Rail
It would be great if we could just get some DMUs with lower capacity but also lower operating costs and run them more frequently.
Some legislator should just stick some MNDOT money for a third track in a bonding bill to get it over with.
Some legislator should just stick some MNDOT money for a third track in a bonding bill to get it over with.
- October 16th, 2021, 10:10 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Orange Line / 35W@94: Downtown to Crosstown Project
- Replies: 1125
- Views: 259660
Re: Orange Line / 35W@94: Downtown to Crosstown Project
There was just a car crash at the new Lake St Station, looks like the building is on fire due to it. Car crashes are so normalized that my first internal reaction was "you gotta be kidding me, the building is on fire?! I hope my new bus station is OK :cry: " before "oh I hope no one ...
- October 15th, 2021, 6:01 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 582221
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Like someone mentioned upthread, we need to make like a dedicated neighborhood group/lobbying group for this. Highway 5 needs to go down to 2 lanes.I will personally beg MNDOT to allow Highway 5 to go down to two lanes so Riverview can have dedicated ROW across the river.
- October 13th, 2021, 6:03 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Gold Line BRT - Downtown St. Paul to Woodbury
- Replies: 495
- Views: 168925
Re: Gold Line BRT (Gateway Corridor)
Speaking of Ramsey County transitway projects, the Gold Line is 100% engineered and ready to begin construction next spring in anticipation of a 2025 opening. Some notes from the latest CMC meeting: The FTA is currently doing risk assessment for the project, expected to be completed this month. The...
- October 13th, 2021, 5:58 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 582221
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Its been mentioned a couple times that Riverview will share tracks with the green and blue lines. "two options are being considered for relocation of the light rail station at MOA, both are next to 82nd Street & 24th Avenue, one is an at-grade station (Option 1) and one is an elevated stati...
- October 11th, 2021, 7:56 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1203
- Views: 582221
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
-two options are being considered for Riverview using the existing tunnel, both include keeping four lanes, the first option has mixed-traffic operation across the bridge and trains operating in the middle lanes, while the second option has single-track dedicated ROW operation for Riverview on the ...
- October 7th, 2021, 3:20 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Bloomington - General Topics
- Replies: 332
- Views: 143577
Re: Bloomington - General Topics
None of these transit lines have really happened without 2 things: 1) a decent amount of feasibility 2) strong and persistent support from local governments Things like the red rock BRT and Arden Hills aBRT fell off the radar because they aren't feasible (#1). The midtown Greenway LRT/Streetcar and ...
- October 5th, 2021, 4:07 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Target Center Renovation
- Replies: 548
- Views: 133688
Re: Target Center Renovation
Even better, put the MEGA-HERC in Lake Elmo so Wisconsin is downwind from itPetition to build mega-herc somewhere in Rogers. Also in support of removing any and all viaducts.