MVTA will be returning their buses as well!Is the MVTA still on their shit list over the redline or were their buses never coming back to lake in the first place.Orange Line begins service on Saturday, December 4!
Even better, a week from today (Monday 10/18), the Lake Street Station opens for service, serving Metro Transit routes 21, 27, 535, 553, and 578; and SouthWest Transit routes 600 and 695.
Update: MVTA will start serving the station on Nov 20th.MVTA will be returning their buses as well!Is the MVTA still on their shit list over the redline or were their buses never coming back to lake in the first place.Orange Line begins service on Saturday, December 4!
Even better, a week from today (Monday 10/18), the Lake Street Station opens for service, serving Metro Transit routes 21, 27, 535, 553, and 578; and SouthWest Transit routes 600 and 695.
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They decided against gate arms, because of all the issues they have with the ones at 46th.That doesn't give me a lot of confidence that the station is safe from idiotic drivers. I remember standing at the old I-35W & Lake bus stop and some drivers either mistook the bus lane for an exit or they were attempting to bypass traffic congestion. Does the new station have gates like at I-35W & 46th? I've always felt both of these stations should have heavy-duty barriers so a driver going highway speeds will slam into that instead of the station or a stopped bus.
The crash happened in the 8pm hour.I was actually there today around 4:30-5:00pm on bike looking around the lower part and I didn't see anything so it either just happened right after I left or I was completely oblivious.
Saw a few news reports that the opening has been delayed as a result and officials have to evaluate the structure for issues, hopefully whatever damage there is is superficial.
Car crashes are so normalized that my first internal reaction was "you gotta be kidding me, the building is on fire?! I hope my new bus station is OKThere was just a car crash at the new Lake St Station, looks like the building is on fire due to it.
" before "oh I hope no one got hurt."
There's huge white signs at both ends that say Authorized buses only. While I feel for the victims families, I'm guessing either speed or alcohol was a factor .fox9 image. Don't see an bollards, or pavement markings. Hope it wasn't a confused self-driving vehicle. https://www.fox9.com/news/1-killed-in-c ... ake-street
Actually for a brief period in 2018 or 2019 there was weekend service on the 535 between South Bloomington (or Normandale College, I forget) and Minneapolis that was supposed to be an alternative to driving through the heavy highway construction that was recently completed. I forget if the frequency was every half-hour or every hour, but I do remember using it a couple times. Unfortunately the ridership was too low (I believe the average number of riders on each one-way trip was 3-5).That certainly seems reasonable considering the present state of transit and the fact that the 535 has never had weekend service. I can't imagine the weekend numbers on the Orange Line are going to be good in the first few years of service. Building more apartments (at all stations) will help, but I don't know if it will be enough to sustain that level of weekend service. Hopefully weekday rush hour ridership is enough to get upgraded to 10-minute headways within a few years of opening, presuming more people go back to the office.
I know now is not the time to be pessimistic on a project that many of us have been excited about for a decade, but looking at the lengthy trip times between 98th Street and Burnsville Heart of the City (7 minutes northbound, 9 minutes southbound!), if there's not enough ridership to/from Burnsville, I won't be shocked if they ultimately have to end half the trips at 98th Street. That's a lot of service hours to spend on not a lot of riders.
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