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Map Monday: Fantasy Eastern US Rail Network

By Bill Lindeke on February 11, 2019 in Infrastructure, Maps, Railroads

Here’s a map from erstwhile rail and transit blogger, Alon Levy, with a proposed “high-speed” / low-speed rail network that would connect to Minnesota. First, the map itself: For Levy’s proposal, the Chicago-to-Minneapolis travel time would be 2 hours and 30 minutes. There would also be connection north to Duluth. Here’s what Levy writes about […]

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Map Monday: Saint Paul What Even Am I Looking At

By Bill Lindeke on February 4, 2019 in Maps

Here’s a map on the wall at the new Treasure Island Center in downtown Saint Paul, which is the old Macy’s Building which was the old Dayton’s, which was designed by famous mall architect and quasi-pedestrian-focused architect Victor Gruen to be a windowless box. Today it has windows in it thanks to a drastic deconstructive […]

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Chart of the Day: Minnesota Transportation Emissions 2005-2016

By Bill Lindeke on February 1, 2019 in Chart, Transportation

In the midst of the polar vortex / rapid warming / re-cooling / wild temperature fluctuations that are linked to climate change, it’s worth re-reading this recent Minnpost piece about where Minnesota’s CO2 emissions are coming from. Transportation has become the largest culprit: In Greta Kaul’s article, she talks about the reasons behind these trends, […]

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Map Monday: 494 Corridor Land Uses, 1953-76

By Bill Lindeke on January 28, 2019 in Land use, Maps

Here’s a fun historical map showing how land use changed during the boom time heyday of the I-494 strip on the south edge of the Twin Cities. It’s from a chapter out of a book called “The Geography of Urban Transportation,” edited by Susan Hanson and Genevieve Giuliano. The chapter, by Peter O. Muller, is […]

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Reviewing (and Grading) Saint Paul’s New Smith Avenue/High Bridge Design

By Bill Lindeke on January 14, 2019 in Architecture, Bridges, Streets

The “High Bridge” is best known as an iconic place for photographs of Saint Paul’s downtown, either as a symbol framing the city or as a place to take pictures of the city. But it’s also a key transportation corridor for people on the West Side and West End, a half-mile link between two historic […]

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Map Monday: Minneapolis Home Values Minus Purchase Price

By Bill Lindeke on January 14, 2019 in Maps

Here’s a fascinating map put together by Scott Shaffer for a new post on the blog of streets.mn Board alum Nick Magrino. It shows the current home values of homes in the city minus their purchase price, or as Magrino states “a rough way of estimating how much equity people have on top of whatever […]

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Chart of the Day: Minnesota Electricity Sources, 2001-2017

By Bill Lindeke on January 11, 2019 in Chart, Environment

Here’s a cool chart from the New York Times, that has interactive charts for each state showing changes in electricity sources over time. Minnesota’s chart looks like this: The Times follows up the chart with a brief caption: Coal has been the top source of electricity generated in Minnesota for the past two decades. But […]

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Chart of the Day: Minnesota Gasoline Prices, 2017-2019

By Bill Lindeke on January 10, 2019 in Chart

Here’s a chart from a recent Star Tribune article about the price of gasoline. It’s not a great chart, but you can look at it anyway: First, here’s the article’s main point, which is about how price per gallon has dipped below $2: The lowest price anywhere in Minnesota on Thursday was $1.88 per gallon […]

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Chart of the Day: Total US Carbon Emissions, 1990-2018

By Bill Lindeke on January 8, 2019 in Chart, Environment

Here’s some bad news for folks concerned about climate change: national greenhouse has emissions have gone up markedly over the last year. In a New York Times article today, Brad Plumer has a story about the 3% uptick over the last year. Here’s the chart: According to Plumer, there are a few reasons for the […]

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