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by Multimodal
April 20th, 2020, 4:53 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Apartments vs. Condos | Renting vs. Owning
Replies: 174
Views: 38174

Re: Apartments vs. Condos | Renting vs. Owning

"financing is harder to get" Wall Street firms bought up single family homes during the Great Recession (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/single-family-landlords-wall-street/582394/) A skeptic might think that owning multifamily housing would bring the same benefits t...
by Multimodal
April 20th, 2020, 2:01 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Nicollet-Central Streetcar
Replies: 887
Views: 136073

Re: Nicollet-Central Streetcar

Most other US streetcars suck because they implement little or no priority measures, operate in cities that have weak transit systems, and circulate low-population downtown areas. The Nicollet-Central streetcar as currently envisionsed is too short to be successful, but a longer one would take the ...
by Multimodal
April 20th, 2020, 1:53 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Nicollet-Central Streetcar
Replies: 887
Views: 136073

Re: Nicollet-Central Streetcar

I am not optimistic about the city's seriousness about the climate emergency. https://twitter.com/MplsWard10/status/1235573373712785411 Don't know what "removing the bike lane" even means for that block (3000 block of Hennepin), but as annoying as stopped vehicles in the lane are, that bl...
by Multimodal
April 20th, 2020, 12:59 pm
Forum: Cities Around the World
Topic: Los Angeles
Replies: 58
Views: 36206

Re: Los Angeles

Idea to remove cars from just one street (Broadway) in downtown LA. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-02-16/los-angeles-ban-cars-broadway-downtown-streetcar-pedestrian-zone The plan would still allow fire, police, and buses. A future street car from Staple Center could use it instead of...
by Multimodal
April 20th, 2020, 12:53 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: City living trends and predictions
Replies: 130
Views: 79799

Re: City living trends and predictions

Google, Amazon, Tesla are flirting with getting into homebuilding. https://www.businessinsider.com/homebuilder-stocks-struggling-impact-from-tech-company-investment-amazon-google-tesla-2018-10 Feels like home building needs some innovation. If by innovation we mean surveillance capitalism, count me...
by Multimodal
April 20th, 2020, 11:28 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Highway Transitway Corridor Study
Replies: 84
Views: 22195

Re: Highway Transitway Corridor Study

Is it not obvious that the reason for this route would be to encourage new development in the undeveloped area surrounding Stillwater? This is why it’s funded by Washington County, right? If it would make this new development into a car-light, pedestrian-friendly area, it sounds like a good idea. Ma...
by Multimodal
April 20th, 2020, 11:15 am
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Role of Visitors and Spaces for them in Cities
Replies: 15
Views: 5244

Re: Role of Visitors and Spaces for them in Cities

Much like Cancun, Orlando & Las Vegas are non-places. They are giant tourist parks. Great for tourism, but nothing to do with urbanism or placemaking for residents (who are mostly just contract workers for those non-places). Think about cities that have a virtual logo in your mind: St. Louis &am...
by Multimodal
April 20th, 2020, 10:04 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Behavioral aspect of commuting
Replies: 1
Views: 3674

Re: Behavioral aspect of commuting

Great article.

Yeah, until we prioritize transit, walking, & biking, and make taking a car (excuse me, SUV) more difficult, change is unlikely to happen.
by Multimodal
April 20th, 2020, 9:44 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
Replies: 1800
Views: 1034572

Re: Bicycle Infrastructure

The tree removals are for parking bays, not the bike lanes. Cut the widening and you can save the trees. Good point. This was approved by the SLP City Council. But change is afoot. From the City of SLP: Southeast bikeway improvements Dear St. Louis Park community member, On March 2, 2020, the St. L...
by Multimodal
April 20th, 2020, 9:14 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Replies: 5265
Views: 1247025

Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)

Possibly incorrect list of Non-Freeway roads that get grade separated crossings from SWLRT: 1. Technology Drive and Prairie Center Drive 2. Prairie Center Drive (again) 3. Flying Cloud Drive 4, Flying Cloud Drive (again) and Shady Oak Rd 5. Felta Rd & Smetana Rd (in a tunnel) 6. Excelsior Blvd ...
by Multimodal
April 20th, 2020, 9:05 am
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, known as SARS-CoV-2
Replies: 15
Views: 3621

Re: Twin Cities' National and Global Image

On that note, Florida is also bringing the national average down, which is fascinating. The state seems to have done everything wrong from a policy perspective, and has a vulnerable population, is doing so well. That might validate the idea that heat and humidity help slow the spread of this virus,...
by Multimodal
April 19th, 2020, 11:14 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Embarrassing Confessions of Urbanists
Replies: 349
Views: 98378

Re: Embarrassing Confessions of Urbanists

I’m developing a fetish for European city bike videos on YouTube.
by Multimodal
April 19th, 2020, 10:45 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: MSP Airport / Metropolitan Airports Commission
Replies: 1359
Views: 346134

Re: MSP Airport

MSP passenger levels down 95%.

Car parking capacity at … 2% utilization.

https://kstp.com/coronavirus/passenger- ... ?cat=12685
by Multimodal
April 19th, 2020, 7:22 am
Forum: Suburbs
Topic: Roseville / Rosedale - General Topics
Replies: 161
Views: 83365

Re: Roseville / Rosedale - General Topics

I’m not convinced the over-55 market is over supplied. My sense that maybe the biggest reason the senior housing apartments are the least likely apartments to be objected to is that the people with the time to make noises at city council or commission meetings are the sort who are most keenly aware...
by Multimodal
April 19th, 2020, 7:10 am
Forum: Suburbs
Topic: Richfield - 66th Street - General Topics
Replies: 304
Views: 84324

Re: Richfield - General Topics - 66th Street

It's interesting how this area of Minneapolis actually filled out quite a bit later than the grid in present-day Richfield. That’s the way it usually works, whether it’s the outer reaches of a central city meeting suburbs, or the outer reaches of the US meeting Canada: it ends up being the lowest d...
by Multimodal
April 19th, 2020, 6:54 am
Forum: Suburbs
Topic: Hopkins - General Topics
Replies: 366
Views: 130565

Re: Hopkins - General Topics

Bear Cave? Isn't that a very niche target demographic?
The EagleBolt was doing fine. Maybe the bears are hibernating in the suburbs now?
by Multimodal
April 18th, 2020, 9:13 am
Forum: Suburbs
Topic: St. Louis Park - General Topics
Replies: 557
Views: 227299

Re: St. Louis Park - General Topics

Is the Galaxy Drive-in on hold, due to COVID-19?

If Micro Center moved, would they choose a smaller space? Large space, low rent, plenty of parking… seems like a dying breed in well to do first ring suburbs.
by Multimodal
April 18th, 2020, 8:58 am
Forum: Suburbs
Topic: Wooddale Station Area / PLACE - St. Louis Park
Replies: 167
Views: 56229

Re: Wooddale Station Area / PLACE - St. Louis Park

So it looks like the north section will go to completion, but the south section is being abandoned?
by Multimodal
April 18th, 2020, 8:51 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: E Line Arterial BRT
Replies: 148
Views: 71255

Re: E Line Arterial BRT

I’ll put in that a line going along France to the West Lake Station would make transit from Hopkins to Southdale worth considering. Maybe in the future a SWLRT to (whatever transit we get from West Lake to Uptown) to E-Line is faster than the 70-90 minutes a Hopkins to Southdale transit option is t...
by Multimodal
April 18th, 2020, 8:44 am
Forum: Suburbs
Topic: Eden Prairie - General Topics
Replies: 63
Views: 39326

Re: Eden Prairie - General Topics

Yeah, the stations that are beyond Hopkins certainly don’t seem like they’ll be surrounded by great urban nodes.

Maybe there really is a difference between first- and second-ring suburbs.