Eight??!! Someone: tell me how Lake Street could be carved into eight lanes
without tearing down every structure on both sides of the street. You could
barely squeeze six our of it now if you include the parking lanes.
Andy Driscoll
Saint Paul
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"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied
corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of
strength, and bid defiance to the laws of the country."
--- Thomas Jefferson,1816
> From: ken avidor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: avidor studios
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> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:25:06 -0500
> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [Mpls] 8 lanes on Lake Street
>
> I'd like to comment on the story in todays Strib about the plan to
> widen Lake Street to 8 lanes, but I think there's a bigger story on Lake
> Street that I noticed the other day while waiting for the bus.
>
> I saw what looked like tattered, dirty rags hanging from
> light-posts along the street. At first I thought they were air-quality
> monitors, but I remember my City Councilman telling me that the air
> quality monitors had been removed a while back.
>
> A closer look revealed the colors and patterns of flags of various
> nations. Somebody had the bright idea of hanging the proud symbols of
> countries along one of the most pedestrian-unfriendly, polluted , truck,
> bus and car-clogged streets in Minneapolis.
>
> I fear we risk an international incident ...if a representative of
> one of these countries (at least one, China is a nuclear power) learns
> how we desecrated their flag with vehicle exhaust filth. How would we
> react if Old Glory was treated this way?
>
> On the other hand...if the plan goes forward and we increase traffic
> on Lake Street, the resulting increase in air pollution will probably
> blacken the flags with soot so thick, we won't have to worry about
> upsetting the rest of the world ...and we will only have to worry about
> our soot-blackened lungs.
>
> Ken Avidor
> Kingfield
>
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