Don't miss today's article in Pulse -
http://www.pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=168 Of note in the article, yet another person goes on record as having heard Peter McLaughlin's deal with Wells Fargo - there are elected officials that are have commented about Peter's deal too, so while Peter continues to deny deal-making, it's more and more difficult to believe. Why would so many local residents and businesspeople suddenly have such a different recollection than McLaughlin? >From Pulse: �I promised Wells Fargo we�d give them a flyover lane to 28th Street if they bought the Honeywell campus,� said Hennepin County Commissioner Peter McLaughlin, according to Tom McGreevy, the owner and manager of Pearle Vision on Lake Street. �This was at a meeting last year with Sharon Sayles Belton and Brian Herron and some neighborhood businessmen,� McGreevy said. It's also interesting to note the discrepancy in Lake Street traffic volumes: why are we making Lake Street 8 lanes (as wide as the existing I35W, not as wide as the proposed I35W) when volumes have decreased over the last decade?? from Pulse: according to Larry Budnik, the City of Minneapolis Traffic Engineer, traffic on Lake Street is not increasing, �If anything, it�s probably gone down.� Traffic count at Lake and Nicollet on a normal weekday in 1990 was 26,100. In 2000 it was 23,000. It's becoming increasingly clear to me that the primary reason for the $150 million "Excess" project is to provide the suburban workers at Wells Fargo and Allina a "less scary" ride to work. from Pulse: Allina did a survey of their employees to see what they liked and didn�t like about working at Abbott-Northwestern Hospital. One of the things the employees didn�t like, it seemed, was getting off 35W at 31st Street and having to wait for a light in a neighborhood that didn�t seem safe. With a flyover ramp they won�t have to see the neighborhood where they work. They will be flown in directly to the mother ship. David Piehl Central __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________ 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
