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It wouldn't serve for connections as well, but what if there were a station at 22nd instead? It would be within easy walking distance of both Franklin and the MIA, and there's quite a bit of room to work with there. It would, of course, be more expensive than just putting it in an existing bridge re...

A lot of the birds killed by skyscrapers end up on the roofs of other buildings/their bases. You wouldn't necessarily see them on the street.

When I got on at East Bank today, there were quite a few people getting on, at least three times more than were even last week. Those are going to be some crowded stations at rush hour.

Lots of people got off at DTE too, so I assume a lot of them were transferring.

Pretty sure the Audubon Society has the right to keep calling for a change, when its whole purpose is in fact protecting birds.

38th could be tricky due to those ramps just south. I don't doubt that it could be done, but it would be a tighter fit than the 46th station. Franklin would be much harder still. Given I live a couple blocks from where the Franklin station could be, I'm disappointed that it isn't planned too. That s...

It's pretty difficult to find a place between the U and Downtown St Paul where $10 is the cheapest food item.

What? Bonnie's Cafe, the Russian Tea House (though they have impossible hours), Que Nha, Flamingo, Hoa Bien, Homi, the Best Steak House, Trieu Chau...

When architecture is done well, it does not become "dated"

Most neighborhoods we consider "charming and historic" now were called "dated" 50 years ago.

I think that history is pretty clear that the reason North Minneapolis suffered disinvestment is because of racism, straight up. One could make the same case for Brooklyn Center, I think. Straight up indeed. Incidentally, if anyone has a good scan of an old HOLC map for Minneapolis (other than the ...

Best place to grab a bite to eat on the line? Nothing too pricy like around or under $10

There are a bunch of cheap but good restaurants at Victoria right next to the station. Hop out and eat whatever looks best.

lol, thanks for proving my point dude.

How are they going to manage 2-minute frequency at DTE without signal preemption? I was on a Green Line train at DTE today that was stuck there for about 5 minutes because of other trains and then missing the signal, and that's a quiet Sunday afternoon.

Slower than the Green Line, but you have to consider how much denser San Francisco is: tons more people and destinations within a much shorter distance.

That's still not much comfort when you're 40 minutes from your job downtown. SF's transit system is honestly not that great either.

What's your point? Here's the 63rd St Station on the Red:



We can both cherry-pick images.

San Francisco... built their systems priortizing dense urban areas first and everything else last San Francisco's BART has extremely limited service in the "dense urban core" and mostly goes out to a lot of park-and-ride's and suburbs. Their Muni, in contrast, serves the urban core well b...

I think that's mostly because 40th is a bike boulevard (the "Riverlake Greenway"). 38th is set to get sharrows eventually, but I don't think lanes are in the plan

Of course, I don't disagree with any of that. I'm really just taking issue with the idea that the process you're describing was good *then* but bad *now*. I think a lot of people ultimately understand gentrification as something like "rising property values have made the place more expensive/yu...

Just because there were vacant store fronts and run-down buildings doesn't mean the area was uninhabited, or that the rising prices caused by hipster gentrification didn't push people out. You act as though Uptown were some sort of virgin territory, ready to be colonized by artsy white people.

They were pretty pricey, but partly because they actually had some really nice stuff. That's sort of the trade-off for vintage clothing stores.

I've been twitterizing this, but seriously, how can city folks say it's about the pedestrians/cyclists trying to cross University? Trains come by at most every 10 minutes in each direction, so 5 minute headways til you see a train. It's not, it's a transparent pretext. The Strib editorial pretty mu...

So we should tolerate some subsidy of financially unproductive growth, but just not as much as we're doing today? I don't understand how that's any better... it still makes local governments poorer, just a little more slowly than the status quo. Why are we afraid of ending a subsidy of a particular...