Train length is another issue... Will these stations only be built for 1-LRV trains?
Hiawatha was built with some 2-LRV platforms but with a pathway to extend those platforms (happened within a few years).
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- January 30th, 2024, 2:00 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1194
- Views: 553752
- January 30th, 2024, 11:00 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2909
- Views: 701196
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
If they do add the ability to use a normal credit/debit, is there any reason to keep the original go-to card around? Wouldn't it be annoying to have lots of small transactions on a credit card statement, or *particularly* a checking account statement? It's so much nicer to have fewer, larger transa...
- January 26th, 2024, 3:34 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1194
- Views: 553752
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
What ever happened to connecting the Fort Road bridge to Shepard Road instead of W 7th?
- January 23rd, 2024, 8:50 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Northern Lights Express
- Replies: 510
- Views: 497532
Re: Northern Lights Express
Biden in Duluth/Superior tomorrow to do his second boast in two years about supporting the Blatnik Bridge project - I can't imagine Amtrak Joe will be announcing anything about NLX during the visit?
- January 23rd, 2024, 8:48 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5265
- Views: 1246721
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Yeah City West station feels like it will be a dud. The only thing it can serve well is the UHG/Optum campus, and even that's not close. This looks like it won't even have a trail south from the station to the older City West Pwky development closer to Shady Oak/212. I always thought it would have b...
- January 22nd, 2024, 8:43 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
- Replies: 2909
- Views: 701196
Re: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Bumping my suggestion from a decade ago to ditch the express fare and instead use GoTo and other means to convert free parking to paid. Thus if you take the 94, or get dropped off at a major park & ride, it would be a local fare. But if you park at a park & ride, it would be a local fare + p...
- January 13th, 2024, 10:12 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5265
- Views: 1246721
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
But look at that bridge up the hill connecting Penn Ave to Franklin Ave - that would be a useful connection.We could've been a real city:
- January 10th, 2024, 2:04 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5265
- Views: 1246721
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
the park board and NIMBY's cost us $1.5b and 10 years because they didn't like bikers in their view. It's literally been a conservative meme for the last decade about how we should have "just moved the damn bike trail" and I had always thought there was a sound technical reason not to. Th...
- December 29th, 2023, 8:27 am
- Forum: Cities Around the World
- Topic: Oklahoma City
- Replies: 10
- Views: 19009
Re: Oklahoma City
Developer seems honest about it...
So do they throw down the future arcology card to help get city approval or something?Hogan called the plan for the third tower, which will be built last and its height ultimately determined by market demand and financing, “aspirational.”
- December 26th, 2023, 6:13 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5265
- Views: 1246721
Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
It wouldn't be unprecedented. When the Blue Line opened in 2004, the initial service was downtown to Ft. Snelling Station since the airport tunnel was not yet complete.
- December 24th, 2023, 10:23 pm
- Forum: Cities Around the World
- Topic: Oklahoma City
- Replies: 10
- Views: 19009
Re: Oklahoma City
1,750 ft supertall, second tallest in U.S., proposed. June and Retiredbanker unavailable for comment. https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2023/12/18/developer-to-build-2nd-tallest-building-in-the-us-for-okc-apartments/71937684007/ https://www.oklahoman.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2023/12/15...
- December 19th, 2023, 3:36 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
- Replies: 1291
- Views: 813223
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
If anything the "one week per quarter" thing gives me the impression they ***don't intend*** to have people come back on a regular, consistent basis (which is fine IMO). My company is remote-first, and we generally do the same thing for on-sites/strategy sessions. 1-2x per year for the ent...
- December 19th, 2023, 8:34 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
- Replies: 1800
- Views: 1034358
Re: Bicycle Infrastructure
Probably just me in the fantasy thread: viewtopic.php?p=153485Has there been any proposal to have any kind of rail their downtown in the past 30 years?
- December 19th, 2023, 8:29 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Future Cars: Electric and Autonomous Vehicles
- Replies: 545
- Views: 196120
Re: Future Cars: Electric and Autonomous Vehicles
Doomsday preppers want old trucks before computer-controlled engines (EMP hardened) running on diesel (easier to bulk store for long term without degradation). And not just one bug-out truck, but a menu of vehicle options to survive different scenarios.
Or so I've heard...
Or so I've heard...
- December 15th, 2023, 12:47 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1749
- Views: 976163
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
So they've looked at a viaduct over the CR 81 viaduct to get the station on the North Memorial side of the intersection, and they've looked at leaving it at grade under the CR81 viaduct. But why not just have a station at the same level as the CR81 viaduct with vertical circulation on each side?
- December 15th, 2023, 11:55 am
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Minnesota State Flag and Seal Redeisgn
- Replies: 55
- Views: 239691
Re: Minnesota State Flag and Seal Redeisgn
"People probably need to do some self reflection," whether true or not, isn't the political sales pitch one may think it is.
- December 11th, 2023, 9:03 am
- Forum: Greater Minnesota
- Topic: Rochester
- Replies: 590
- Views: 432562
Re: Rochester
Really sad how the only walkable streetscapes in Rochester is under threat, both the Broadway project above and the news of the long-time Dooley's spot (the only redeeming street-life-creating part of the parking ramp they built across their only historic streetscape less than two decades ago) closi...
- December 4th, 2023, 9:26 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Transit Crime
- Replies: 280
- Views: 1023657
Re: Transit Crime
better social safety net, transit not being seen as a place of last resort A majority of the issues with Metro Transit right now are failures of the state and federal governments to provide enough social services and housing, issues a transit agency has neither the funds nor ability to solve. Are t...
- December 1st, 2023, 12:01 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: MSP Airport / Metropolitan Airports Commission
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 345953
Re: MSP Airport / Metropolitan Airports Commission
Those two new FIS-connected gates on G (which block other FIS gates) won't keep up with this growth. The final draft 2040 plan plans a mid-term project to rebuild the Green/Gold ramps (oldest/closest to the T1 drop-off) with that space having expanded curbside areas and a new FIS facility. A reconst...
- November 30th, 2023, 11:19 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
- Replies: 1194
- Views: 553752
Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
An old option to get rid of those tight ramps, which would be compatible with their desire to use the northern half of the lower/existing bridge deck for trains with a tight turn west of the Ft. Snelling chapel.