Wizard Marks wrote: "I35W's poor engineering has been a major factor in the decay of Lake St. The point of the mitigation is to attempt to reverse the decline by making Lake St. more accessible to the freeway."
Avidor: Freeways like 35W are city-killers...nobody chooses to live near one. There is no way to "engineer" a freeway into an urban amenity. When I look at tourist brochures of Minneapolis I see lots of people walking, rollerblading and biking down Nicollet Mall or the Lakes...no pictures of car-clogged 35W. 35W is a festering sore. "mitigation" is a band-aid on that sore. We can stick band-aid after expensive band-aid on the sore but it will continue to fester. Lake Street suffers from a lack of decent mass transit and too many cars, busses and trucks...which results in a noisy, dirty, polluted and ugly environment... this essential sensory information is unavailable to the thousands of sound and climate-controlled , steel and glass cocooned motorists who roar down Lake Street every day...if they were instead, walking or riding bikes, Lake Street might some day be pictured in the tourist brochures. The last thing Lake Street needs is MORE cars. Ken Avidor Kingfield _______________________________________ 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
