re: #77 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I’ve mused on the idea that the Twin Cities would be the ideal urban area to build a new century of subways.

Forget light-rail, go all in on full size trains at full speed.

Geologically, southern MN is pretty stable. No reason to not tunnel all over the place.

And the nice thing about connecting a city with enclosures is that in winter one can walk around un-frozen. I know there is a network of sky-walks in Minneapolis, and that’s nice, but no where complete in coverage.

Living in Japan, if I wanted to go between say Osaka and Tokyo in the winter, the only time I had to be outdoors was in my walk to the subway station. From there I was all indoors or protected areas. Even in many cases the hotels are all connected underground to the rail stations.

Not that winter is particularly cold in that part of Japan, but it was nice nevertheless.