>-- Holle Brian
>The question is, does the dog wag the tail, or the other way around? Even at
>its busiest, Hiawatha Avenue does not experience anywhere near the traffic
>congestion that occurs on real commuter routes like the Crosstown, I35 and
>I94. And presently the heaviest public transportation use occurs on the
>buslines in the University Avenue corridor. I doubt it will be any
>consolation to people trying to get to work to know that there is a
>convenient train running tourists, conventioneers and business people back
>and forth from the airport to downtown.
To say that the Hiawatha Avenue LRT does not serve the I 35W traffic is wrong.
The Hiawatha corridor--both the road and under construction LRT--serves the
eastern part of the same area that feeds 35W. I would guess (and there are
probably traffic studies to prove it) that the majority of the traffic from
the Airport and the Inver Grove Heights/Eagan area take 35W to downtown.
Now that the M'haha area and the part north of 31st of Hiawatha are in
use, there has been a big increase in the traffic on Hiawatha (Yesterday at
5--coming home for South High, the traffic going South at 26th was backed
up past the Cedar Avenue overpass).
In traffic/highway/transit design, no one rout can be analysed by itself.
People take different paths from the same area--and some that may not make
sense at first glance.
Now to be most effective, the South end of the LRT should have been further
south or east--maybe even crossing the Minnesota river at the Cedar Avenue
river crossing or the 494 river crossing.
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sheldon mains, seward neighborhood, minneapolis
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