Alex Friedrich
Not a bad little vid. But couldn’t the city color-code the thing — maybe with a different colored stripe in the lanes to show where you can drive? The Griswolds still might not get it.
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Tag: transportation
Remember the roundabout going in on University Drive and Fifth Avenue? It’s supposed to be open today – certainly a relief for the construction-weary campus community. But in this little little video, which appears on St. Cloud State’s University Chronicle Web site, an engineering technician questions how efficient it will be if it’s jammed with pedestrians. Update: Here’s a university Read more →
Never mind the challenge of getting in to the University of Minnesota or even paying for it. Getting to the Twin Cities campus could become more difficult. Noticed this in Dan Olson’s story yesterday about potential Metro Transit cutbacks: Officials say the highly-used service to the University of Minnesota, which constitutes most of Metro Transit’s Read more →
The Minnesota State University Mankato Reporter quotes a student who’s concerned about the school’s inadequate supply of parking spaces: “[The administration] needs to realize that every year the student body, as a mass, as a whole, has gotten bigger, and they have done nothing about parking,” said Tom Roys, a fourth-year student. “They need to Read more →
In case you missed this in the Star Tribune’s coverage of the new $5 million, first-of-its-kind bus terminal that opened in the median of Interstate 35W at 46th Street in south Minneapolis: Local Metro Transit buses will bring passengers to the new station to catch express buses to downtown Minneapolis, the University of Minnesota or Read more →