How do we know if traffic congestion isn't solved by building extra lanes?
Has it ever been tried? I know it hasn't been tried here.
Whoever designed the Hwy12 to Hwy 394 upgrade clearly didn't want it to
succeed. It was really bad before the bottleneck at Penn Ave was removed,
and it still has a serious bottleneck in both directions at the Hwy 100
underpass when it goes down to two lanes. And whose idea was it to add a
completely separate bridge for the insane lane? Is their brother in law in
the cement business or what?
Both Hwy 62 AND Hwy 394 have important junctions that go down to a single
lane. Hwy 62 east to 35W north is one lane. Hwy 394 east to Hwy 49 east is
one lane. Both of them are major jams every day. One lane...clearly these
roads were built for something other than handling the existing capacity.
Both of these have a parallel lane to ensure frustration by having
opportunists run down to the end and then jump in.
Some on this list view petroleum use in apocalyptic terms. But attempting
to limit petroleum use by not building highways doesn't work - it just
diverts the petroleum use to the burbs. So Minneapolis loses population and
businesses while Eden Prairie and Minnetonka and Plymouth thrive.
Rich Chandler - Ward 9
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carol Becker
> Traffic congestion is never "solved" by building more highway lanes.
> Latent demand is so great that any additional lanes will be full almost
> immediately. Look at the upgrade of Highway 12 to 394 as a good local
> example.
>
> Carol Becker - Longfellow
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sheldon Mains
> Last week we heard that parts of highway 62 will be closed for 2 to 4
> years. I have some questions.
>
> What to the people in far south Minneapolis think of this?
>
> One reason given for the long time is that neither Minneapolis nor
> Richfield agreed to any additional right-of-way. Would people trade more
> highway right-of-way for a faster construction?
>
> Maybe this will actually improve traffic on 35W in the area--It will not
> be getting additional traffic from 62.--Comments.
>
> What about the comments by some Republican Legislators that if that much
> time is taken, when it is done it should "solve" the traffic problem
> there. Is that reasonable?
>
> sheldon mains, seward neighborhood, minneapolis
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