>On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Terrell Brown wrote: >> >> Presumably most of the people exiting 35W between Lake >> and Diamond Lake Road have a destination somewhere in >> South Minneapolis, their home, their job, a friend or >> a place of business. We should strive to let them >> reach their destination as safely as possible. I >> don't see the automobile going away in my lifetime, >> living without out some traffic isn't going to happen. >> > >Are there plans for widening southbound 35W south of 46th? Occasionally >Lyndale is the fastest route between 62 and 46th & 35W. > Which is exactly why the neighborhoods bordering Lyndale some 10 years ago banded together to 'calm' the traffic on Lyndale. The County had wanted to widen Lyndale to four real lanes between Minnehaha Parkway to 36th Street (every single tree in that stretch would have been sacrificed), but the uproar stalled the project. A very ambitious 'calming' plan was produced by some very committed people (the plan still resides in my little black notebook) - all the paperwork can probably still be found in KFNA files. For all the work, the Hennepin County highway engineers blocked all the efforts to 'calm' Lyndale. The issue became one of the pivotals in the last commissioner race, since which there has been nothing written for the local newspaper consumption. Methinks the calming issue will arise again which I hope is sooner than later. John Ferman Harriet Avenue Kingfield Neighborhood Minneapolis Ward 10 Pct 10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Minnesota E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
