ken avidor wrote:
>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.
>
I would agree, but since I doubt that MnDOT is going to roll the thing
up and get rid of it, fill the dirt back in and put in the housing and
streets once removed, the best we can do is to mitigate whatever damage
we can when we can.
WizardMarks, Central
>
>
>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
>
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