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by mattaudio
January 30th, 2024, 2:00 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Riverview Corridor Streetcar
Replies: 1194
Views: 553752

Re: Riverview Corridor Streetcar

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).
by mattaudio
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...
by mattaudio
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?
by mattaudio
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?
by mattaudio
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...
by mattaudio
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...
by mattaudio
January 13th, 2024, 10:12 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Replies: 5265
Views: 1246721

Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT

We could've been a real city:
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But look at that bridge up the hill connecting Penn Ave to Franklin Ave - that would be a useful connection.
by mattaudio
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...
by mattaudio
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...
Hogan called the plan for the third tower, which will be built last and its height ultimately determined by market demand and financing, “aspirational.”
So do they throw down the future arcology card to help get city approval or something?
by mattaudio
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.
by mattaudio
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...
by mattaudio
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...
by mattaudio
December 19th, 2023, 8:34 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
Replies: 1800
Views: 1034358

Re: Bicycle Infrastructure

Has there been any proposal to have any kind of rail their downtown in the past 30 years?
Probably just me in the fantasy thread: viewtopic.php?p=153485
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by mattaudio
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... ;)
by mattaudio
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?
by mattaudio
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.
by mattaudio
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...
by mattaudio
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...
by mattaudio
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...
by mattaudio
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.
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