It's easy to overlook how quickly the calendar pages flip over on
the open registration period. This year, the closing dates for open
registration are on Tuesday, August 18 prior to the primary election
on Tuesday, September 14 and again on Tuesday, October 12 prior to
the general election on
Ron wrote:
This will be atleast the third time that I have made this suggestion:
Why not add some fee (like a $1.00 a gallon) to every drop of paint sold in
Minnesota as a dedicated funding source for lead paint abatement- when all
of the lead paint has been eliminated, eliminate the
Jeanne
Only one story of bus/LRT to report.
My neighbor used to take the 7(I think) to get to his job downtown.
Now he takes the LRT and it is 15 minutes faster for him.
He walks 2 extra blocks to get to the stop near his house, and loves it so far.
Ron Leurquin
Nokomis East
-Original
Thanks to Fred Markus for bringing up one of the most powerful tools
around: voting! Just wanted to let folks also know about an opportunity
in Minneapolis to help in getting out the vote among low-income renters
and people experiencing homelessness. Here's the info:
As part of the National
Level of influence that residents have living near the airport...? While some homes by
Lake Nokomis are very nice, many homes in the Nokomis area were built as one bedroom
bungalows, cottages in the 20's and 30's to house military and the neighborhoods look
very much like the Windom Park area.
--- David Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
26th and 28th streets are very underutilized. When
I don't drive
on Lake Street, I take these streets. There is
almost no traffic
on them, even during rush hour.
CN: I must respectfully disagree with this,
considering I now live at the corner of
Fred Markus wrote, This year, the closing dates for open registration are on
Tuesday, August 18 prior to the primary election on Tuesday, September 14 and again on
Tuesday, October 12 prior to the general election on Tuesday, November 2. Once these
deadlines come into play, no one can
As a St. Paul homeboy, I never use Lake unless I'm going to some place
along Lake. More often than not, my business is at the west edge (Uptown,
Calhoun, Kenwood), and the only way to fly is down the east-west one-ways
26th/28th Sts.
Please do not fly through my neighborhood.
Yes, 26th/28th are
Constance Nompelis wrote:
I do not mean to imply that Lake Street ought to be
widened - In fact I am mortified at the very idea.
WM: Once again: Lake St. is NOT being widened. We cannot widen Lake St.
The Repaving Project has 80' to work with. That's it. Lake St. will not
be able to get any
The section between 5th Av. and 21st. is the section to break ground
between April and June, 2005.
Russell Raczkowski wrote:
By way of clarification. . . .
Lake Street will be widened to seven or eight lanes as part of the 35W Access project
from
roughly 5th street to Blaisdell.
WM: I don't
R. Raczkowski wrote:
Lake Street will be widened to seven or eight lanes as part of the 35W
Access project from
roughly 5th street to Blaisdell.
I don't understand how we can discuss Lake Street in isolation from the
monstrosity
of the section created under the auspices of the Access
I counted 436.6 teachers positions for special education programs in the
budgets for 2003-2004 and 2004-2005. How many of the teachers filling those
positions will be laid off as part of the realignment process? My guess is that
upwards of 100 special education teachers have been fired so that
This rhetoric from Niziolek is a myth he's creating. There are 4 lanes
today, the plan is 4 lanes in the future. There are also turn lanes at
some intersections. Niziolek, Lilligren, and Zimmerman want to reduce it
to three lanes. If that happens, one quarter of Lake St. traffic will
use the
I don't remember what city it was or when or who said it, but they had a
similar problem that we have with left turn traffic on Lake Street.
Actually, the left turn problem is not limited to Lake Street.
The quote that set the policy was:
Two wrongs do not make a right, but three rights make a
In a message dated 7/16/04 6:04:23 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Two wrongs do not make a right, but three rights make a left.
I wonder if Roundabouts have ever been considered for major
streets in Mpls. That's a very efficient concept for making all turns
According to SEH's illustration dated 2/10/04 and titled I-35W
Access Project - Lake Street - Lane Comparison, the area on Lake
from Blaisdell to 4th Avenue will carry from 4-8 lanes of traffic,
depending on the intersection. Some of those lanes are through
lanes; others are dedicated turn
J. Gorder writes:
I wonder if Roundabouts have ever been considered for major
streets in Mpls. That's a very efficient concept for making all turns
right hand
turns. Note I say concept, I don't really know how they work in large
cities.
Anybody on the list done enough driving in
J. Gorder writes:
I wonder if Roundabouts have ever been considered for major
streets in Mpls. That's a very efficient concept for making all turns
right hand
turns. Note I say concept, I don't really know how they work in large
cities.
Anybody on the list done enough driving in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder if Roundabouts have ever been considered for major
streets in Mpls. That's a very efficient concept for making all turns right hand
turns. Note I say concept, I don't really know how they work in large cities.
Anybody on the list done enough driving
The intersection of Minnehaha Ave. and Minnehaha Parkway is a roundabout and
it works just fine. They work best, though, when there are only two lanes,
one each way, as is the one on Minnehaha. There are some multi-lane
roundabouts in New England, but they usually take more space than is
Jon Gorder
Cathedral Hill where there exists
the
only roundabout I know of in the cities.
wrote
I wonder if Roundabouts have ever been considered for major
streets in Mpls. That's a very efficient concept
An informative slant on 35W Access Project can be viewed at:
www.taxpayer.net/road2ruin/roads/i35waccessproject.htm
Dorie Rae Gallagher
Nokomis East
where a library built in 1932, during a depression, is closed 50% of the time in a
more affluent period, due to monies being spent pluming the
Forwarded message:
A rumor that has been floating around the Wedge for decades: MNDOT, during
the 1950s had preliminary plans to tear out 26th Street, 28th Street and
everything in between, to run a freeway from I-35W to Hwy 100.
Not merely a rumor. The plans were made in the 1960s, but
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