The problem is simple, it's a slap in the face to have hwy 55 traffic in Minnehaha park, given that millions were spent on a sound wall to keep the effect of that specific traffic OUT of the park.
I think what this comes down to is, do you want the park to be an extension of the highway? Is the park there for general commuting, or is the road there to serve the people who use the park? Personally I applaud the park board for limiting the road to park users. Remember in 1999, $50,000 a day was spent for security because of all the protests about the highway being next to the park in the first place? Do we really want to open up the can of worms of allowing that traffic to *really* use the park? If so, we might as well as remove the sound wall and put some lanes in the space that the sound wall takes up. Because what would be the point of the sound wall? Come to think of it, why have the park at all? Let's just have a big freeway. Screw those park users, they do nothing, just sitting in the sun anyway.....what's a little more exhaust and noise? Tom Holtzleiter Kingfield On 10 May 2002 at 21:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Park Board shut down the park road between 54th st and Minnehaha Parkway this week? Excuse me? What's going on Park board???? Wade Russell longfellow _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
