On 6/27/03 7:52 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PS- I wish some folks would look more closely at BRT foibles on Lowry North. > I could use an Amen, here.
Amen Brother Keith! Dyna may want to sit down for a second because I pretty much agree with what she said. West Broadway is far more suited to accommodate increased busing than Lowry Ave. Dyna has mentioned before that rail would probably be a better system than BRT, but we are in Minnesota (aka "Land of why have a train when you can have 10,000 cars instead?"), so of course, that's not going to be an option. Anybody who's ever traveled along both Lowry and West Broadway can easily see that Broadway is a good deal wider - about 20% going by the numbers Dyna supplied. I wondered earlier if the need to replace the decrepit Lowry Ave. Bridge might have been a factor in the BRT route, but then I learned that that won't come into play because the BRT route would reportedly turn downtown at Washington Ave and never get to that bridge. So now I guess I wonder if the reasoning behind BRT on Lowry is because someone wants to widen it like Broadway? As Dyna pointed out, Lowry is currently far too narrow for such a system to work without giving up on-street parking and any hope for bicycle lanes. Has anyone actually heard of any reason given for why Lowry would be preferable to West Broadway for a BRT route? I could keep speculating, but it would be better to just hear from someone who actually knows. Mark Snyder Windom Park 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.) ________________________________ 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
