Bob CollinsDriving out of downtown Saint Paul last evening, I was particularly struck by the number of people who ignored the ‘don’t walk’ signal and strutted into the crosswalk, defying the cars to hit them. It’s been going on for years, of course. Read more →
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Tag: Transportation
Minneapolis is considering a streetcar line on Nicollet Avenue from Lake Street to Fifth Street NE. St. Paul is noodling on a streetcar line on Seventh Street between Randolph Avenue and Arcade Street. These might be bad ideas, CityLabs’ Eric Jaffe suggests today, indicating that where streetcars have been put back in service in America, Read more →
Confirming what most drivers already know, Allstate’s annual survey reveals that St. Paul isn’t a particularly safe city to drive in.
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Don’t be such selfish, ill-mannered transit riders, Green Liners. Let a family get off a train before you shove against them trying to get on. Read more →
Theoretically, you should be twice as safe on an airplane today now that the tax — I’m sorry, “fee” — for providing security is doubling. Good one. It turns out — you might want to sit down for this — that it’s merely a money grab. Comparatively little of the extra money is going toward Read more →
The Green Line project put stations after the intersection, meaning trains have to stop twice: once for the signal, and once for the station. Read more →
Who are you and what have you done with Joe Soucheray? The most famous crank in the newspaper business in the Twin Cities and long-time opponent of the Central Corridor light-rail project has seen the light in, perhaps, the biggest turnaround in transit history. In his column in the Pioneer Press today, Soucheray took the Read more →
More often, we hear “it takes too long” among potential Green Line. There’s a good reason for that. It takes too long.
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On this the 83rd birthday of the Stillwater lift bridge (which will reopen to traffic tomorrow, by the way), we pause to note that its replacement is starting to look like a bridge. Read more →
Minneapolis is a fairly dense city, Alex Cecchini writes on streets.mn, but Minneapolitans don’t seem to use mass transit to the extent one would expect. He found 55 percent of the people in the zip codes he analyzed work within five miles of where they live, which should allow for a commute of 30 minutes Read more →
First, let’s acknowledge that we all have heard the warnings not to drive through standing water. That said, today’s various photos provide a great chance to evaluate the worst way to do what you’re not supposed to do in the first place. People blast through, apparently figuring if you go through really fast, all the Read more →
Minneapolis is the 12th most “walkable” city in the nation, a report released today shows. It’s one of the few national surveys in which the city finishes behind Cleveland (10). Read more →
Last evening, the new Green Line recorded its first car-train accident since service officially opened over the weekend. That didn’t take long.
Both train and car were traveling toward Minneapolis on University at Hampden when the car — of course — made an illegal left turn into the path of the train. It was the fifth accident since Green Line testing started in February and in every case the car’s driver did something wrong.
Usually it involves ignoring traffic signs or traffic signals.
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Is this a growing trend in Minneapolis? People posting public parking areas in front of their homes as private parking only?
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A couple of headlines this week seem to be in conflict. Read more →