Minneapolis - St. Paul Metro

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What the Twin Cities Do Better Than Anywhere Else in the US (www.youtube.com)

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Interesting look at the Minneapolis / St. Paul area from an urban planning and transit standpoint. It mostly focuses on Minneapolis and talks about the good and bad about how the city runs

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

The whole downtown was long overdue for a refresh in the 1970s. The skyway system was a step in the right direction (see the criticism from the video!), but fundamentally downtown remained a place where rich people take a chauffeured limousine (otherwise known as a bus!) to their 9-5 job. Almost nobody lived there, and so there was no life (other than lunch time on the skyway). Because almost nobody lives downtown it is dead early.

The lightrail made a big mistake terminating downtown. Each should have become a subway under downtown, with a central station someplace (nicolet mall!) so that people could use it instead of having to transfer to a bus. The slow speed and low headways also are not helping.