So let�s review. �We� get the flyover ramps with the removal of housing; we get ramps at Lake street with the resultant widening of Lake street and removal of small businesses and the impossibility of bicycle and pedestrian friendly design. We get a great big expanse of pavement (think Hiawatha and Lake) smack dab in the newly �revitalized� Lake Street corridor.
Residents near 35th and 36th get nothing that I see until the far off date of 2015, with no guarantee, realistically speaking, that it will ever be any relief under the auspices of �Access.� Meanwhile, 38th street must exist in a suspended state, with plans on the board for what amounts to a major redesign of the whole corridor that won�t happen for more than a decade.
It is time to take the red pill (Matrix reference, sorry.) folks. As residents concerned for the future of south Minneapolis, we (and I do mean we this time) need to start having a real conversation about what future holds in terms of traffic and urban design.
I was against the Access project before, and I still am.
I invite those who had hoped that Access would improve their quality of life along 35th and 36th to rethink things now. Do you want a widened Lake street and a flyover ramp to the doorsteps of the corporate drivers of this project without the lessened traffic burden in your immediate area? Do you think that Smith Parker leveled with you in having a meeting on the redesigned traffic circle (formerly ellipse about) at 38th when the notices of the delay were already in the mail.
We need to stop this mutating monster. Forget the federal money. . .it�s no bargain if we further distort south Minneapolis in pursuing it. Stop the 35W Access project. . .then we can really start talking about the future.
Russell Raczkowski
Bancroft
TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.)
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