May I propose a green (actually blue, except white at this
time of year) solution: I-35W and I-94 through much of south
Minneapolis is a "below ground" freeway. The only thing that keeps
this wonder of '50s engineering from turning into a chain of lakes is
a huge system of storm sewers, and even they don't work at times. So
all we need to do is plug the drains, and let the ground and runoff
water seek it's own level... this will also eliminate the historic
inequities in Minneapolis allocation of lakes and rivers during the
last ice age.
laughing at the riverside in Hawthorne,
Dyna Sluyter
p.s.: anyone care to delve into the local legend that the I-35W
bridge over Lake Street is in fact a continuos bridge from the tracks
at 29th all the way to Lake, with the space underneath a huge hall
connected to Honeywell?
> I have a really far-fetched, "Jetsons"-type, vision that
>would need a great deal
>of engineering expertise, multi-county support and citizien input,
>but never fearing
>playing the fool I will intrepidly advance one idea: Let's demolish
>I-35W as a
>'land-based' freeway and instead either
>
> 1) liberate I-35W as a 'land-based' transportation corridor
>by building an
>'aerial' freeway that would by-pass most of Minneapolis altogether
>(inspired by David
>Piehl's suggestion about Lake St. feeding into the Wells Fargo
>(formerly Honeywell)
>campus), or
>
> 2) "liberate" I-35W by having it come to a halt at a suburan
>mall (pick one,
>anyone -- Burnsville on the south, Roseville on the north) where
>drivers would park their
>single-occupant cars and board either a mag-lev type train or an
>aerial tram system to
>enter and exit Minneapolis. This scenario would necessitate a much
>improved bus transit
>system over what we currently have so that once commuters are let
>off at a location in DT
>Mpls. they can board a bus to quickly and safely transport them to
>their destination
>within the city. Or,
>
> 3) build a subway system. One that would eliminate the need
>for I-35W to cut
>through Minneapolis altogether. But,
>
> 4) if Mpls. had a Personal Rapid Transit system, this might
>eliminate the need for
>any of the preceding ideas.
>
> Any other off-the-wall ideas floating around?
>
>Jenny Heiser
>East Phillips neighborhood
>
>"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only
>think about how to
>solve the problem. But when I
>have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
>" -- Buckminster
>Fuller (1895-1983)
>
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