# 16 University Bus (Minneapolis: houses, construction, restaurants)

[iowahawk1]

Hi:
I'm coming up for a few Twins games in a few weeks. I'm staying at the Days Inn University. Do you see any problems with the # 16 bus after a night game?? Thanks!!

[silverjet]

The only problem you would encounter is dealing with being on a crowded bus. Otherwise, you'll be fine.

[Explorer John]

I've seen it be anywhere from super crowded and noisy to just a few people at that time. Never experienced anything you wouldn't get on any other line though. I'd say go for it.

[Ben Around]

The 16 line between the Metrodome and Days Inn is fine. If there WAS any trouble (not that there would be), it'd most likely be on the segment from Snelling to downtown St Paul, way east of wher you will be riding..

[acesgrinned]

Originally Posted by iowahawk1

Hi:
I'm coming up for a few Twins games in a few weeks. I'm staying at the Days Inn University. Do you see any problems with the # 16 bus after a night game?? Thanks!!

Just sit up by the bus driver, and you'll be fine.

[iowahawk1]

Thanks to all who responded. Say, while we're talking baseball....what's the area like surrounding the new Target Field...good, bad, indifferent??

[Minnehahapolitan]

Target Field doesn't open until 2010. Anyways, its a very urban environment for a stadium -- one of the smallest lot footprints in baseball (on par with Fenway). If the site were thirty feet shorter, it couldn't have been built there. Hell, it goes right over the Burlington railroad tracks. The area will fill in nicely eventually, and in the meantime it is an acceptable place to have it. The light rail line is getting extended, but the platform is only as wide as a double garage. The intermodal station will be eventually built nearby. There are alot of old warehouses within a couple blocks, which will be much more vibrant when the stadium opens. However, it is still directly abutted by the garbage incinerator, a mammoth parking garage and an ugly side of the Target Center. When it opens it will be a wash. In ten or twenty years they will replace the Target Center and that side will be more attractive and the site will be much more attractive while maintaining some painful flaws. The actual plaza will feel painfully planned, but should still be neat. Overall, they could have done much worse. They were originally going to put it where the Guthrie is now. The lot would have been bigger, but I think it would have felt more cramped because it would have faced a two lane street.

[fashionguy]

Did anyone notice there is a factory directly beside Target Field? It is very annoying to me when I tried to walk around the stadium and found that I had to walk around the factory. Maybe this is due to construction but the fact that it is beside a factory doesn't leave good impression on me. The other side of the factory is very depressing. There is even a citgo gas station which has long been abandoned I believe, because I never noticed Minneapolis has any citgo gas station ever since I came here four years ago.

Originally Posted by Minnehahapolitan

Target Field doesn't open until 2010. Anyways, its a very urban environment for a stadium -- one of the smallest lot footprints in baseball (on par with Fenway). If the site were thirty feet shorter, it couldn't have been built there. Hell, it goes right over the Burlington railroad tracks. The area will fill in nicely eventually, and in the meantime it is an acceptable place to have it. The light rail line is getting extended, but the platform is only as wide as a double garage. The intermodal station will be eventually built nearby. There are alot of old warehouses within a couple blocks, which will be much more vibrant when the stadium opens. However, it is still directly abutted by the garbage incinerator, a mammoth parking garage and an ugly side of the Target Center. When it opens it will be a wash. In ten or twenty years they will replace the Target Center and that side will be more attractive and the site will be much more attractive while maintaining some painful flaws. The actual plaza will feel painfully planned, but should still be neat. Overall, they could have done much worse. They were originally going to put it where the Guthrie is now. The lot would have been bigger, but I think it would have felt more cramped because it would have faced a two lane street.

[silverjet]

That Citgo gas station is still open, or at least it was a year ago when I was last there. It's pretty easy to miss if you aren't in the area much. Anyway, it's an odd place to put a stadium considering what's around it, but like Minnehahapolitan said, they certainly could have done worse.

[iowahawk1]

I've heard that there are a lot of bars, restaurants, and other places to hang out after a game in the target field/target center area....is this true?