Hopefully somebody here can explain to me some of the basics of what the city is trying to achieve.
Do they want to install a dedicated bus lane from Downtown to ???, 494?, south of 494?
Downtowen to Lakeville, eventually. Right now the Crosstown project limits the scope to 46th streetr but the resolution included a provision (introduced by councilman Niziolek) that requires this project to work with the Access project to make the lane go all the way downtown.
Where is this lane supposed to go?
That's why the plan was rejected. There _is_ no lane. The design will need to be modified.
Is the City suggesting that we drop the 4th lane for regular traffic? Or somehow add a 5th lane all the way north?
I'm not sure. My guess is that the design will need to be reworked some.
Dropping a lane doesn't sound too smart, considering
that 35W is the most heavily used roadway in the
state, close to 200,000 cars per day at Lake St. That would negate any possible benefits from the 62
expansion.
Not necessarily. The bottleneck at the weave causes much of the problem. Fixing that plus adding transit should help a lot. Part of the problem with the current design is that projections without transit indicate that it will be congested the day it opens.
Even adding a single pair of lanes north of 46th would mean rebuilding: 46th, 42nd, 40th pedway, 38th, 36th, 35th, 31st, Lake, 28th St, 26th St, 24th St pedway, Hwy 65 over 94, maybe the 94 flyover. So 10 bridges? At say, $30 million a piece, that's way more then doubled the cost of the original project. Probably looking at a cool $500 million by the time your done.
Are you including the cost of the Access project? I don't think the transitway will double the cost of Crosstown + Access.
Yeah, that's still cheaper then the Hiawatha LRT, but considering the Feds footed the bill for most of that - actually probably right around $500mil. I sincerely doubt the Feds are going to be writing out a check for something like this.
Why not? Right now transit gets the same 80% federal match as roads. Of course, transit opponents are trying to reduce that to 50%. Call you legislators and tell them to fund transit!
David Greene Lowry Hill East
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
