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theflyingexecutive posted:Broadway already has a subway that stops every 4-6 blocks under it and plenty of bike share stations. manhattanites are so spoiled for transit and still all my uber drivers will bitch to me that they'll call a car to go four blocks my sister's neighbor is a decrepit shut-in hoarder who can barely make it down the two floors to the street, as in she throws her cane down the stairs and uses both hands to hold herself up while edging sideways down the stairs. she calls a cab to go a couple blocks and will never move because of rent control and paranoia she also gets mad when people get worried enough to call the landlord to see what's stinking up the hallway while she's disappeared to the hospital occasionally (it's garbage she can't remove from her place herself)
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Lutha Mahtin posted:there is a project here to expand one of our 2 light rail lines. it's pretty far along in the planning and is at one of those points where they can get a big chunk of federal transit money if they raise some of it locally it's to extend into the western suburbs, right? if not it's to go further south than MoA which is fine but having a giant parking lot on one route terminus isn't a bad thing
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Lutha Mahtin posted:http://www.swlrtcommunityworks.org/explore-corridor/map/map that would own so of course it won't happen
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Lutha Mahtin posted:i feel like the route they decided on wasn't very ambitious; one of the options involved tunneling under part of nicollet and having an underground stop in eat street, which i feel like would have been good because it would reach more people within dense areas of minneapolis. but i'm not any kind of transportation engineer and the route the chose isn't too bad really. linking up downtown with Bryn Mawr, Kenwood, SLP, Hopkins, all the way out in to EP isn't such a bad deal. Who knows, it might even reduce the bumper-to-bumper nonsense that is the ramp from 394 east going into the 94 east tunnel the whole system should have been subway in the the city grid just because it'd make waiting for the train in the winter much more bearable nevermind the huge service speed improvement between the downtown cores. oh well. running a line down through Uptown into the western side of Bloomington would be great, too, because there are some decent places to live down there thanks for the link to that blog btw
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Jul 4, 2016 20:14
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I like that there's a few tens of feet of weeds and trees between me and ~ten lanes of highway not perfect but whatever - I should probably move or maybe get a window unit air filter, if those exist
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Nov 20, 2016 07:24
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Bloody posted:sorry about you're suburban hellscape we have highways right up in our downtown here in MSP it's nice for reverse commuting but probably really bad for my lungs if the soot I clean off the window sills is any indication
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Nov 20, 2016 19:22
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Lutha Mahtin posted:I bought one of these "safeguard" window filters a few years ago, that link is to the storefront run by the manufacturer, not sure if you can get it cheaper elsewhere. You get a lot less air throughput since it has a filter and baffles, but hopefully with the benefit of cleaner air. The frame of the unit is pretty nice, I was able to stick each side of it into the grooves for the window frame, and the top and bottom of the frame have rubber strips so when you push the window down onto it it creates kind of a seal. Probably works best if you get several of them and set them up in multiple windows, I just bought the one, so with the way it lowers air-flow it didn't work the best. Eventually I just decided to buy a window air-conditioner. I'd die of some combination of sleep deprivation and dehydration during the summer if I didn't have window units, but thanks for the suggestion - it'll work well with the blow-out fan setup I've been using during the third of the year it's cool enough for that I still have a window open in 'the office' where all my computer poo poo is because it's self-heating, heh
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Nov 20, 2016 23:02
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mishaq posted:in before shagger says this will cause more deaths I'm 60/40 between that and something about people having to use them to die on them
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Dec 1, 2016 02:25
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Munkeymon posted:I'm 60/40 between that and something about people having to use them to die on them blugu64 posted:that's fine though, since nobody rides the train it doesn't matter if they're in service or not low rent train shaggar but I'll take it
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Dec 3, 2016 00:03
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#notallpublictransit
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Lutha Mahtin posted:with a Doomtree av you might live here, so: it's along 46th street in Minneapolis, east of the Blue Line station. I have actually never heard of this so it must be either (a) new, or (b) really early in the planning process. it would be a cool place to run a streetcar though imo 50th would be better because you wouldn't have as many lakes in the way
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Mar 6, 2017 00:02
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Lutha Mahtin posted:"east of the blue line station on 46th" means there are zero lakes in the way, just the river. and that street is where the ford pkwy bridge over the river is oh derp I misread as 'east into the blue line' still thinking long-term you'd want to extend it west eventually but yeah ford would be a good street to run a train down adding a train crossing to where 46th intersects Hiawatha would make that intersection even more of a clusterfuck 
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Mar 6, 2017 03:50
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Cygni posted:in cities that didnt engage in that game, mostly because they were massively white to start with like Seattle, there is almost no stigma at all with bus ridership getting around Seattle on the bus is great and I'd recommend it over driving which sucks because their traffic is bad unless you want to get out of the city but do that during non-commute hours for the sake of your sanity
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Mar 14, 2017 05:43
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Elder Postsman posted:we went to this play at the mn history theater a few weeks ago and one of the quotes in the program was "very few blacks lived in Minnesota, but the road builders found them." gently caress 
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Mar 14, 2017 05:44
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:seattle's touristy areas are dense enough and traffic-plagued enough that out-walking the bus is a viable strategy yeah but you do the EMP and Pikes in a day or two and then you gotta get around to the actually good/cool little restaurants and whatnot somehow also we stayed with friends in Ballard and gently caress driving in from there
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mishaq posted:i visited seattle when i was like 12 and the hybrid overhead electric wire diesel buses fascinated my autistic middle school self yeah they're neat but I found myself wishing they had air conditioning
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