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Is this the route that goes through William O'Brien? Would tie in well to the plans to extend Gateway from O'Brien to Scandia.

Are we just going to reprise the discussion from a couple months ago about Houston? Is this ideal? No. Is it workable? Yes. "Deeply awful" overstates the problem. Now, that doesn't mean there shouldn't be a cost/benefit discussion about a cut and cover tunnel. I've become convinced in the...

Still haven't seen a layout for putting dedicated guideway LRT on an 80' street that wouldn't be deeply awful for pedestrians, transit, or both.

I wonder if this is Metro Transit tipping their hand a bit on the ABRT route selection process. It's hard for me to imagine them doing this if they're planning to replace Route 3 with Como-Maryland BRT in a few years.

But you need Montreal for the likely bus transfer--I'm not sure buses could even make that turn from Montreal to southbound 7th to get to a Homer station. The 83 is also a pretty likely candidate to get extended down there. Worth pointing out too that there are two intersections of Maynard/7th, and ...

I've written a lot about how bad and dumb the "modern streetcar" mode choice is on this project, but we should take a moment to also note that there is absolutely no reason for stations at both Maynard and Davern, and both Montreal and Homer. Sort of emblematic of the weird priorities of ...

Four Seasons lobby rendering, via Axios:

How many of those outstate voters who hate Walz voted for Biden? You would need a whole lot of Biden voters to vote GOP in 2022 to unseat Walz, and that just doesn't feel like a very likely formula.

Without arguing one way or another re: this building, I really want to push back on the idea that the Gateway District doesn't deserve preservation because the buildings don't suit contemporary tastes. That is exactly the justification people used 60 years ago to demolish the original Gateway Distri...

Ramsey County's Rice Street Visioning Study (redesigning Rice from Pennsylvania Ave to Wheelock Pkwy) continues to move forward. The study team has posted design concepts that could be applied to Rice, all of which assume that the current four lane configuration is no longer viable. Provide feedback...

Especially since Ward 10 is definitely one of the city's most overpopulated wards, and whoever gets elected in 2021 will be running in a very different district in 2023.

It would be like I-335, which was planned to connect 35 and 94 through Northeast. I doubt many people even know about that project, or ever think "I wish there was a freeway through Northeast so I could drive to Rosedale from Golden Valley a few minutes faster. I certainly don't actually wish ...

I was on northeast 35W for the first time in a while yesterday after sunset, and I was totally blown away by how big and prominent this thing is in the skyline. Truly wild.

You forgot to mention that Hennepin is also studying changes to their section of Franklin that would mirror this: https://www.hennepin.us/franklincorridor

A Line BRTOD continuing to hum along.

"Small but loud and well-connected group of opponents" is the definition of handwaving away the opposition. You know who has a good read on the size of the opposition? The elected officials making these compromises.

I love how easily people here handwave away the deep public opposition to some of this stuff. It's charming in a way.

If the school were made of quartzite like that courthouse is, there would be no issues at all.

With the dedicated sales tax funding, and with Ramsey County able to take the lead without political interference from others, I'd hope that they'd be optimistically thinking they could start construction in four years or so, putting an opening date more in the 2029-2030 range. Bear in mind that th...

The shades of orange and red they chose also look terrible right next to each other, for what it's worth.