Posted February 20, 201015 yr next by request -i annotated various msp metro transit - enjoy! the area from the air st paul over there mississippi making snowmobile tracks hiawatha line airport station the hiawatha line opened in 2004 and had 35,500 daily boardings in Q3 2008 it has 19 stations and it is 12.3 miles long recently, station lengths were expanded and new stations opened at target field & american blvd factoid: due to the unique makeup of minneapolis's population, ticket-dispensing machines present instructions in four languages: english, spanish, somali, and hmong. http://metrotransit.org/rail/index.asp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiawatha_Line from the ride into town when they say mills out here, it’s a lot different than what we mean in ne ohio - ha! :laugh: these are called riverside towers once scandinavian in the 1940's, now it somali http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar-Riverside,_Minneapolis train to the bars is better than driving ha! valspar hhh metrodome northstar commuter railyard northstar service began november, 2009 it’s 40 miles long and has 6 stations, with plans to expand to 94 miles & add 5 more stations they want to get it to st. cloud to connect with amtrak’s empire builder line station & perhaps on to fargo they started with five MP36 locomotives and seventeen bombardier bilevel coach cars, which each have about 140 seats and room for 355 when full with standees http://metrotransit.org/northstar/index.aspand old union http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northstar_Corridor target field -- the last stop in town for both the northstar and hiawatha lines expansion plans here include: the bottineau transitway and southwest corridor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottineau_Boulevard_Transitway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Corridor_(Minnesota) logos help with the publicity -- good luck to them! articulated busses warehouse stop bus stop signage on marquette nicollet mall stop from the bus -- capital in st. paul I guess you can tour it, go up in the dome and look out over the golden horses…next time! construction begins on the ‘central corridor,’ the new light rail line, in lowertown st. paul st. paul union station great northern mural fitting they started up the central corridor construction in front of the grand old union station! the 11 mile long central corridor line will once again link-up msp by rail transit -- it is slated to open in 2014 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Corridor_(Minnesota) this is what it will look like when done plans for union station more here, including fact sheets on other msp transit projects: http://www.regionalrail.org/central.html http://www.metrotransit.org/ finally, metro transit has moved to smartcards, which make travel easy! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go-To_Card http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_Transit_(Minnesota) *** as you can see it’s easy to go carless on your visit to the twin cities! ***
February 20, 201015 yr Doin' the damn thing Minnesota! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 21, 201015 yr Excellent job! "It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton
February 22, 201015 yr I like the Riverside Towers. I know that Minneapolis and St. Paul are not really twins, but it seems strange that Metro Transit is so heavily focused on Minneapolis. St. Paul seems to be treated like just another suburb. I know the Central Corridor will go through St. Paul, but even that will be oriented to the Minneapolis hub.
February 22, 201015 yr I like the Riverside Towers. I know that Minneapolis and St. Paul are not really twins, but it seems strange that Metro Transit is so heavily focused on Minneapolis. St. Paul seems to be treated like just another suburb. I know the Central Corridor will go through St. Paul, but even that will be oriented to the Minneapolis hub. But the new Amtrak station will be at St Paul Union Depot in 2012, followed by the Red Rock Corridor and Rush Line Commuter trains. Metropolitan Council (the regional planning folks in charge of the metro) has a clear plan that involves both cities quite equally. They just began with the Hiawatha Line because it was guaranteed to be a success and got the people familiar with Light Rail. Then they added the Northsar Line because it was the shortest and easiest line for them to construct, and it connected directly to the Hiawatha Line. Now that people are familiar with both types of rail transit, they're going to start cranking away on the rest of their regional plan that definitely includes St Paul. Check out www.metrocouncil.org
February 22, 201015 yr Nice to see rail transit being embraced more and more throughout the USA. Also, those commuter trains look so unbelievably clean and new... you could eat off the roof of one of those!
February 22, 201015 yr I like the Riverside Towers. I know that Minneapolis and St. Paul are not really twins, but it seems strange that Metro Transit is so heavily focused on Minneapolis. St. Paul seems to be treated like just another suburb. I know the Central Corridor will go through St. Paul, but even that will be oriented to the Minneapolis hub. But the new Amtrak station will be at St Paul Union Depot in 2012, followed by the Red Rock Corridor and Rush Line Commuter trains. Metropolitan Council (the regional planning folks in charge of the metro) has a clear plan that involves both cities quite equally. They just began with the Hiawatha Line because it was guaranteed to be a success and got the people familiar with Light Rail. Then they added the Northsar Line because it was the shortest and easiest line for them to construct, and it connected directly to the Hiawatha Line. Now that people are familiar with both types of rail transit, they're going to start cranking away on the rest of their regional plan that definitely includes St Paul. Check out www.metrocouncil.org Thanks. I am glad to hear that Amtrak will be relocating to Union Depot in St. Paul. If a cold weather city like Minneapolis can make things happen, why can't the 3C's? No excuses. That is a good and valid question. Weather is certainly no excuse. On the other hand, I would like to come to Cleveland's defense and point out that, unlike the Twin Cities, Cleveland has had rail transit, in one form or another, continuously for more than one hundred years.
March 6, 201015 yr ^---- I thought rail had a competitive advantage in cold weather because automobiles don't do as well in the snow. In Cincinnati, we get one or two times in a year when we get a snow in rush hour and everybody takes two hours to drive home. Someone always says, "if we had a rail system, we wouldn't have had to sit in traffic for two hours yesterday." Yet, they forget about the experience, until it happens again the next year. Imagine if this happened, say, 50 days out of the year. There would be a lot more incentive to build a rail system.
March 21, 201015 yr I always did love it up there. The area is so progressive in terms of urban development, transit and many other things.
March 26, 201015 yr wow thats a Minneapolis i have never seen before looks like it has a very promising future :-D
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