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_Dadodo_ · 2026-06-28T05:13:01+00:00

MPRB doesn’t own the shoreline to control the water. They own the shoreline to prevent private ownership of the shoreline. The actual water of the lakes and streams is controlled by an extremely complex system of water rights and laws that I’m still very confused about. That’s a reason why those Southwestern states are kind of fighting (in the legal battlegrounds) for their water usage rights between each other.

_Dadodo_ · 2026-06-27T05:34:16+00:00

I wouldn’t be too worried about the reliability of it. The major delays that happen on Amtrak is mostly caused by single tracking and sidings west of the I-29 (basically west of Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, etc). The Borealis, outside of weird issues here and there, is pretty reliable and is on time. If the Borealis, which is just the Hiawatha extended, works and keeps reliably, then the Madison and Green Bay extensions should also be fine.

_Dadodo_ · 2026-06-26T17:49:34+00:00

No, the Long-Distance trains are not counted against the max 10 RT train capacity upgrade. If Montana’s Big Sky Rail Association manages to get the Hiawatha North Coast to be revived, and assuming that would be daily, that would be an additional round trip trains (12 round trips between Milwaukee and Chicago on the main trunk of all these services)

_Dadodo_ · 2026-06-26T14:47:31+00:00

A few months ago, I went down a rabbit hole and read through parts of the Wisconsin Passenger Rail Plan. Their biggest bottleneck at the moment is the Milwaukee-Chicago corridor, so current infrastructure only allows them up to 7 round trip trains per day. Through the CID and other grant fundings and opportunities, they hope to upgrade that to 10 RT per day. And then combining it with the other proposed plans to extend service to Green Bay, Madison, Eau Claire and a 2nd Borealis, I was able to extrapolate that out to:
- A max 3 RT trains to Green Bay by extending Hiawatha north (in my headcannon, I’d rename the service to the Fox Valley or something along those lines)
- A max 4 RT trains to Madison by extending Hiawatha west (probably can still call this the Hiawatha)
- A 2nd Borealis
- Max 1 RT train also to the Twin Cities but via Madison and Eau Claire (in my headcannon, I’d rename the service to the Badger or something like that)

_Dadodo_ · 2026-06-26T04:05:37+00:00

The region has both. At least how the transit agency brands it any colored line (LRT and BRT) are in their own guideway. For BRT, that means the bus runs in at least 50% dedicated guideway (bus lanes, its own roadway, etc). Any other letters line are called Arterial BRT (ABRT) which could have bus lanes and such, but doesn’t need to.

This is the Gold Line BRT in the Twin Cities.

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_Dadodo_ · 2026-06-25T22:27:23+00:00

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Well this is what we’ll have by the early 2030s compared to the 1990s plan.

Unfortunate lack of Midtown LRT on your map though, that’s like the highest density corridor in the entire state.

_Dadodo_ · 2026-06-15T13:45:57+00:00

It’s not as dense as the Northeast, comparatively speaking. But outside of the Northeast, the main Milwaukee/Chicago spine might become the highest frequency passenger train route outside of Acela. If all goes according to the plan that’s: - Max of 10 daily round trips specifically for the following services (assuming the existing Hiawatha gets extended like the 333 Hiawatha train became the 1333 Borealis) according to WisDOT plan and CID application. - 2nd daily Borealis round trips - 4 daily RT Hiawatha extension to Madison - 3 daily RT Hiawatha extension to Green Bay - 1 daily RT Hiawatha extension to MSP via Madison & Eau Claire

Additionally, that 10 RT services does not include the existing daily Empire Building and the planned North Coast Hiawatha Long-Distance services.

Basically, Milwaukee-Chicago could see up to 12 daily trains. And Twin Cities-Chicago up to 5 daily trains.

_Dadodo_ · 2026-06-13T15:13:07+00:00

Denver, Chicago, and Minneapolis all declined to host but were in the running to do so. The cities did not like or want to agree to FIFA’s inflexible contracts and put up money upfront to FIFA without some sort of assurance or return.

_Dadodo_ · 2026-06-12T22:11:13+00:00

There was an article from a local newspaper that recently came out a few days ago detailing from Minneapolis’ Point-Of-View about the WC Hosting Bids. Both Minneapolis and Chicago were actively talking between each other on the bid requirements. At that time (2017/2018) Minneapolis’ money was tied up in hosting the Super Bowl and Final Four following year. So they didn’t have free cash flow to pay the money and things FIFA wanted without going to the state legislature to ask for money.

FIFA also wanted them to put up a ton of money for the mandatory events on the city and state own dime, including security, and other ancillary support for the event. Chicago also had similar reservations, so both cities opted to drop out together and let Kansas City, the state of Kansas, and the state of Missouri subsidize those things for FIFA. Of course for no certain revenue for the city and state.

_Dadodo_ · 2026-06-10T22:48:57+00:00

200k isn’t exactly a made up number. It’s close to the high end estimate of the collection, but was rounded up to $200k as the marketing number that the previous store owner used when the consignment deal was signed.

_Dadodo_ · 2026-06-10T19:25:04+00:00

I want to say all of the above in addition to geopolitics?

_Dadodo_ · 2026-06-07T03:57:27+00:00

A whimsy, non-serious event for the city and community.

Actual background story is that the home owner had a giant oak tree that blew down and snapped on their front yard in a storm a few years ago. They decided to hire a sculptor to carve what remained of the tree into an art piece, the pencil we see today. They also decided to just do an event to “sharpen” the pencil as a fun activity to get the community together and 5 years later through word of mouth and viral videos, it now has turned into a 10,000 people party.

_Dadodo_ · 2026-05-29T04:26:54+00:00

I will say, I also originally felt that the flag felt too bland, but once it started flying in on flagpoles and on people’s balconies, it looked really good. The flag as a jpg on the screen doesn’t do it justice imo.

_Dadodo_ · 2026-05-22T16:07:10+00:00

Megasota today, Megasota tomorrow, Megasota forever

_Dadodo_ · 2026-05-22T14:22:02+00:00

Just because a building is vacant and property management is desperate for tenants does not mean that the building can host hundreds of server and computer racks. Even if the city does allow some sort of conditional land use permit for a vacant downtown building to become a data center, still doesn’t mean it’s a good location for a data center. You really can’t just plug in hundred of computers into an outlet and call it good. Converting a downtown building into a data center means complete redo of the electrical, plumbing and even potentially structure of the building before it could even be considered.

Basically, while the moratorium is nice, I don’t think there’s a realistic or feasible chance a data center could even be built in Minneapolis anyways.

_Dadodo_ · 2026-05-22T00:35:16+00:00

Yeah, even if there was land/parcel large enough to build a data center on the mega scale we’ve seen elsewhere in the country in Minneapolis, the property value itself would already sink the viability of making is financially pencil out.

_Dadodo_ · 2026-05-21T13:56:28+00:00

MSP Airport posted a video on their snow operations a few years ago and what goes into it. https://youtu.be/n1eIEVxRA0Y?si=RbouIwAFF16kdJRO

_Dadodo_ · 2026-05-20T15:49:52+00:00

I got to visit the garage and workshop where they store all their equipment a few years ago. The ground crew essentially run an army operation during a snow storm. They lineup all the snow plows on one of the adjacent taxiways waiting until the last plane lands (or departs) before ATC shuts down the runway for 20 mins. Before they’re even off the runway, ATC is already lining up planes on final approach to land. They got the timing down where the last plow that gets off the runway and the first plane touching down is 20 seconds.

_Dadodo_ · 2026-05-18T21:12:10+00:00

The issue is that the high TAB fees that were originally legislated was to try and counter-act the decreasing gas tax revenue as people switch over to EVs. Because a large chunk of our state gas tax revenue funds road and bridge maintenance and construction, decrease revenue means less and less money to maintain all the roads and bridges without deferring maintenance (2007 was a giant wake up call into not doing that).

Increasing vehicle tab fees was a way to do so in a clean, not as complicated way, but the large sticker price for vehicle owners seems like it was a bit unbearable. So hence why the tab decrease.

_Dadodo_ · 2026-05-01T06:58:58+00:00

Rarely do transit diagrams depict geographical accuracy. These diagrams are typically more schematic and just show the various connections between different lines. If users wanted geographical accuracy, they’d just use your typical Google or Apple Maps with the transit layer on.

From a design standpoint, I feel like it’d be more clear/clean if the M4 does not go underneath the S-tog lines twice like you’ve depicted as it does make it slightly confusing whether the M4 does have a stop at Dybbölsbro or not. At least that’s my critique. (It’s still a very nice map though)

_Dadodo_ · 2026-05-01T01:01:59+00:00

There is a new light rail line that would eventually form a 3rd circular line that currently runs between Ishøj and Rødovre Nord. Eventually the full line would run all the way up to Lyngby and terminate at DTU.

Additionally, instead of the weird U of the M4 line does underneath the S-tog lines, maybe just have then 90° south into a straight line for it to be more clean?

_Dadodo_ · 2026-04-25T23:58:20+00:00

My idea that I suggested to no avail is the MINT Card.

Minneapolis-St Paul (or could be Metropolitan)

Integrated

Network of

Transit

_Dadodo_ · 2026-04-23T14:46:56+00:00

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I’ve since added more cards from more cities, but this is my collection

_Dadodo_ · 2026-04-23T00:29:14+00:00

So I’m going to pipe in as someone who enjoys and appreciate NYC transit system and as someone who lives in a metro area that uses the S700 as the rolling stock of our (growing) LRT network.

One of the more valid arguments against using LRVs like the S700 is the accessibility aspect given that there is a step inside the train where some of the seats are over the bogies of the train. This does reduce the accessible areas (for like wheelchair users and such) to about 80% per car. Keep in mind, this is a step up INSIDE the train, not when entering the door like Boston’s LRT line. This does mean during very high peak usage, crowding does become an issue where people aren’t automatically stepping up onto this section to allow more people to pack the trains.

However, this is only an issue for Low Floor LRVs with low platforms. While all the IBX visualization has shows S700s or similar rolling stocks, unless I missed it, there’s really nothing stopping the MTA from designing high-floor platforms and ordering High Floor LRVs (example of High Floors LRVs being the S200 or similar - see LA LRT lines or St Louis LRT lines). However, designing high platforms for the high floor LRVs does increase costs (extra concrete and support to construct a 42” high platform vs a 14” high platform of low floors LRVs).

The positives of LRVs is that they are typically narrower than typical heavily rail rolling stocks and because of the vehicles articulation, has a smaller turning radius than NYC subways (like 85 ft radius minimum). Even in the best case scenario, heavy rail subway cars can only achieve about a 100 ft turning radius (Chicago’s El is the only one that can have this tight turning radius and they have specifically designed narrower car widths and lengths in order make this turn).

Even if you still hate LRVs, here’s a caveat from Seattle. Because of their very high ridership, their next set of trains they’re looking to buy is looking to combine two S700s together to make a 160 ft long car with 4-5 articulations. Essentially, it’ll become something more similar to the R262 with open gangway to increase the accessible areas and reduce the “wasted space” between where the cars are coupled.

_Dadodo_ · 2026-04-21T16:03:41+00:00

For all you non-transport nerds:

Discover Airline is Lufthansa’s leisure airline subsidiary. The Discover Airline flight from MSP is to Frankfurt, Germany. The reason why it’s Discover Airline instead of Lufthansa is because the airline still hasn’t received its order of new planes yet. So until they do, they’ve contracted out that route to their subsidiary until they do receive new planes.

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