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How to Improve the Vikings Pedestrian Bridge With One Easy Step

By on July 3, 2015 in Safety, Transit

On July 2nd, it was announced that the Minnesota Vikings have offered to shoulder half of the burden of building a pedestrian bridge over Chicago Avenue and the Downtown East light rail station. While this doesn’t necessarily exonerate the bridge from the sharper criticisms of Nick Magrino’s story on the issue (particularly on how converting […]

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Free Idea: Keep Branding Off Vikings Stadium, Add It With CGI for TV Broadcasts

By on June 21, 2015 in Experiments, Free Idea, Public Art, Stadia

Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke once wrote that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. For example, right now, there is a robot the size of a small truck driving around Mars shooting lasers at rocks. One other thing humans have figured out is the so-called “1st & Ten” line. In American football–a […]

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The Met Council is Spending $6,000,000 on this Unnecessary Pedestrian Bridge?

By on April 16, 2015 in Walking

Check out this bridge! It’s a pedestrian bridge–meaning that it’s for pedestrians, walking “on foot” with their legs. For the sake of this post, say that you were in the market for a pedestrian bridge and, bear with me here, you wanted one that looked just like that one in the picture, but less pixelated […]

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Should Minneapolis Build an Urban Soccer Stadium?

By on March 15, 2015 in Development, Economics, Infrastructure

Professional soccer is coming to Minneapolis, probably. Sports Illustrated reported last week that Minnesota United is likely the next addition to Major League Soccer. This is exciting news for many. For others, it begs the question: Do we need another stadium? I’ll leave the politics to Alex Schieferdecker. Instead, I wanted to ask the question: […]

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Predictions for Super Bowl 2018

By on May 27, 2014 in Bicycling, Carfree, Culture, Economics, Environment, Freeways, Governance, Humor, Infrastructure, Land use, Parking, Stadia, Transportation

I predict the Packers will win, prompting the biggest riot the city has ever seen! No, seriously, I support hosting the 2018 Super Bowl in Minnesota. After all, we need to start paying off our billion-dollar, publicly financed stadium that was supposed to be paid for with non-existent gaming revenues. Looking at the behavior of […]

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Super Bowl Bid Bust: Why Are We Destroying The Yard With The Pole Building?

By on May 23, 2014 in Architecture, Events, Humor, Land use, Parks, Stadia, Uncategorized, Urban Design

You may have seen the artist renderings.  The drawings lay out a vision for The Yard, the planned four-acre urban park adjacent to the mammoth new Vikings Stadium.  In the winter versions, the park is shown populated by happy, hearty Minnesota families  skating, admiring ice sculptures, making snow angels and generally laughing in the face […]

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