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Chart of the Day – Port Shipments
Today’s Chart of the Day – Port Shipments on Lake Superior and the Rivers Annual Port Shipment Tonnage (in millions of tons) Source: MnDOT Annual Transportation Performance Report 2012 The post Chart...
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Chart of the Day – Rail Shipments
Today’s Chart of the Day concerns freight rail (and may explain performance issues with passenger rail) Annual Rail Shipments in Minnesota (in Millions of Tons) Source: MnDOT Annual Transportation...
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Chart of the Day – Freight Mode Share
Today’s Chart of the Day is a table of freight mode share in Minnesota Freight Mode Share in Minnesota (by ton miles); 2002-2011 Source: MnDOT Annual Transportation Performance Report 2012 The post...
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Chart of the Day – Shipments
Today’s Chart of the Day examines shipments to, from, or between Minnesota locations Total domestic shipments, to, from, or between Minnesota locations (excludes international shipments and “through”...
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Chart of the Day – Trucks
Today’s Charts of the Day concern trucking in Minnesota: Heavy Commercial Average Annual Daily Traffic (HCAADT) by Corridor: 2012 Heavy Commercial Vehicle Miles Traveled (HCVMT) on the Minnesota State...
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The Great Divide
This blog needed a bit more solipsism, so let me use my inaugural post to talk a little bit about me. But I promise some Minnesota transportation and land use talk too. Unlike some of the impressive...
View ArticleSustainable City Logistics in ʼs-Hertogenbosch
Hat tip to Walker Angell for pointing me to this very interesting video about limiting the number of trucks accessing dense central cities, from Bicycle Dutch. Every year the proud 140,000 inhabitants...
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Free Idea: Implement Transit + Freight Lanes
Here’s an honest question: does our current system of roads and streets really get goods delivered to market quickly and efficiently? If you ask any legislator pushing for more road spending or your...
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Gridding West Midway
Neighborhoods change. Technologies change. Economies change. While today a Distribution Center is advantageous in the West Midway Industrial Area, because the sunk costs are sunk and all the buildings...
View ArticleSidings Make Rail Networks Operate More Efficiently
A pretty cool video explaining how single-track lines work with sidings for freight trains from BNSF. Hat tip to Mike Hicks (@mulad) who tweeted the video. The post Sidings Make Rail Networks Operate...
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To the Gulf of Minneapolis
July 10, 2016 Downtown, West Side 18.3 Miles I frequently look at maps of Saint Paul. Call it a “blogupational” hazard. Sometimes I’ll plan a ride with the help of Google maps. Occasionally I’ll use an...
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A Few More Opportunities for Public Input on the Minneapolis Transportation...
After my last class today, I took a ride on the route 4 bus–including the slow crawl along Nicollet–from Minneapolis College to the Central Library, where I was able to attend the downtown Community...
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What Good Are Climate Goals If They Aren’t Considered When Real Decisions Are...
What good are climate goals if they’re not considered when real decisions are made in our cities? It’s a recurring question heard in posts on streets.mn that soon will be addressed at the Saint Paul...
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Moving a bookcase… with a shopping cart??
This post is second in a series I didn’t expect to write, scenes of people taking stuff from my home to their homes by any means that aren’t personal or rented automobiles. The first one was called He...
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Moving a floor lamp… with a bicycle??
This is part 3 of my unplanned series, moving items that motorists would expect you to need a motor vehicle to move… without one. Part 1 is about a mattress and part 2 is about a bookcase. We were...
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Deconstructing the Past and Future of St. Anthony Falls Lock
In these perilous times, dreaming of the future comes less easily. That is precisely what I found myself doing, however, after hearing the news earlier this year that the planning process for the...
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Moving a Ladder… with a Furniture Dolly??
So, as you’ve seen from my previous posts in this unplanned series, I’ve moved homes. We got rid of a bunch of stuff and now, the unpleasant part, we need different stuff. We needed a new taller...
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Progressive Rail’s High Line: Past, Present, and Future
There are several railroad routes named High Line, probably the most famous being in New York City, but the specific High Line that’s the subject of this post is a 9-mile railroad going through...
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Chart of the Day – Port Shipments
Today’s Chart of the Day – Port Shipments on Lake Superior and the Rivers Annual Port Shipment Tonnage (in millions of tons) Source: MnDOT Annual Transportation Performance Report 2012 The post Chart...
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Chart of the Day – Rail Shipments
Today’s Chart of the Day concerns freight rail (and may explain performance issues with passenger rail) Annual Rail Shipments in Minnesota (in Millions of Tons) Source: MnDOT Annual Transportation...
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