--- Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If your blood pressure is being elevated by traffic calming, then the > odds are you are driving on the wrong street. Unless you live in a > neighborhood (or are visiting a person or business in such an area) > where such calming techniques are in use, you most likely probably > should not be there. Arterial streets are designed for passing > traffic through an area, and such streets do not have these calming > techniques of non-through-intersections in use. Non-arterial streets > are for the use of local residents, not Type A+ personalities who > think their time is more important than anybody else's and that they > have a right to bully any neighborhood with their cars.
[TB] Wrong! Streets designed for moving traffic. The NIMBYism one finds in many neighborhood has the idea that their neighborhood is a gated community and should not be entered by anyone not living there or an invited guest. Streets in Eden Prairie have a logic that approximates your average deer path. Steets in Minneapolis generally follow a grid that provides multiple routes for getting from point A to point B. Anyone who has driven from Lund's to Loring Park knows that Hennepin Avenue or Lyndale are the least efficient routes. Hennepin and Lyndale are also not the only routes which the city has designated as "snow emergency routes" giving them priority plowing when Minneapolis has its occaisional winter storm. The idea that I should not pass through a particular area, even if it is along the shortest/quickest route from A to B represents a type of elitism that goes against the idea of community. Last I checked, my car was licensed to operate on the streets, not some streets. Come to think of it, when I avoid the major streets, I'm doing a favor to those that don't. I'm making those roads less congested. Terrell Brown Loring Park __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
