I live in Longfellow Neighborhood and work in downtown St Paul. Because of timing issues, I usually end up driving to work. This necessitates crossing the Lake Street bridge into St Paul.
The bridge is signed at 30 mph but because it is has no cross traffic and because the speed changes half a block off the bridge, virtually everyone goes faster than 30 mph. The City of St Paul has been raising revenues by ticketing Minneapolis residents as they are crossing the bridge. Note that they have not been ticketing St Paul residents as they leave the City, nor do they ticket at night when St Paul residents are coming back into the City. Just in the morning when the Minneapolis residents are coming across. Now it would be fine if this was legal. For everyone's info, the State of Minnesota sets the speed on roads like Marshall Avenue and they have found that the appropriate speed for Marshall Avenue, to the border of Ramsey County, is 35 mph. So the small part of Marshall Avenue that is signed at 30 mph is in fact signed incorrectly. But the City has no incentive to change this as they are making money from the deal by parking their cops on the end of the bridge and ticketing people. Now I called the City of St Paul to talk to them about changing this and their response was that they have no interest in changing it and in fact, they would like to see the speed limit even lower (imagine that). Does anyone have any experience in getting speed limit signs changed and if so could they please e-mail me off - list about any advice they would have? Carol Becker Longfellow TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
