(Warning, strong start then some rambling)
I would agree with Laura Wittstock that some middle ground should be reached. Street parking near LRT stops on residential streets should not be completely barred to non-residents, but some accommodation needs to be made for residents. I did some online searching a while back for parking studies, and it looks like the Met Council looked seriously at parking and then put the recommendations in a drawer for two and a half years. If anyone knows of anything that was actually adopted or more recent info that this, please post..
http://www.metrocouncil.org/transportation/lrt/ParkingRecs.htm
I like (as much as one can like paying for parking) the parking machines at various Minneapolis parks. Perhaps the City parking folks could talk to the Parks and Rec parking folks?
At 03:32 PM 8/2/2004, Laura Waterman Wittstock wrote:
"... I don't mistake the street for my personal property. There must be some middle ground here."
Laura "Southeast and jonesing for speed bumps on my block"
Speed bumps are very crude, but they are cheap.. narrower roads are a better means of traffic-calming in my opinion and you can get more sidewalk as a bonus. Some of the streets in the Wedge are good examples of this, although there are also a few speed bumps which are more or less superfluous.. The complete closing of intersections like at 32nd St South and Garfield in the Lyndale neighborhood is a page from the suburban planners handbook and has no business in a real city.
And.. I'd like to gloat that I predicted many of Hiawatha's shortcomings on this list a week or so before the big opening. On June 17th I wrote:
"It's important that the Hiawatha route does connect major destinations and is long enough to be useful...I think Hiawatha will be less successful in between. The stops are too far apart, the population density is too low, and the walk to the stations is often awkward. Parking is also limited, discouraging "intermodal shifts" from car to rail line. Prospects for higher density redevelopment along the middle of the line are somewhat limited in the near future. If you live near a stop .. it will be nice, but I bet a significant number of people who live in between stops .. will see the trains go by but never bother to make the 10+ minute walk to get to a stop."
I was a bit pessimistic in not considering the timing of bus routes with the LRT. Curious to hear first hand accounts of how well the timing works.
Mike Jensvold East Isles
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