Re: [Mpls] Speaking of Traffic on Hiawatha Avenue

[Annie Young]

Well, include me in folks on the list of the 10 minute wait. I got so 
frustrated every day for awhile that I now just automatically go Cedar and 
get on to downtown and to get over to Seward I jog through my neighborhood 
over to 28th and north on Hiawatha and then right on to 26th.  I don't know 
why but you hardly ever have to stop for the train doing it that way.  And 
that idea came from list member Mary Jane Mueller who told me the trick as 
I was expressing my extreme frustration with the lights. After spending all 
those millions of dollars to build this great train and now it is a crying 
shame that this is happening but maybe it was inevitable - only the spirits 
up in highway and transit heaven know for sure.
Is it part of a bigger plot? Who knows?

Annie Young
East Phillips
At 07:58 PM 10/6/04 -0500, Dorie Rae Gallagher wrote:
I have sat through 3 light changes to make a left hand turn. I don't know
how many minutes each light change is, times by three..but it seems lengthy.
But what do we know,  Liz!!
Just do as told, don't make waves now, ya hear.
dorie gallagher
nokomis
>
> This is NOT at all a gross exaggeration! I've actually witnessed this a
> bunch of times and it actually freaks me out! My guess is you haven't
> spent as much time using Hiawatha as much as those of us who live over
> here. I've timed it sometimes that I've sat at stop lights for up to 10
> minutes.
> Liz Greenbaum
> Longfellow
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> This is a gross exaggeration.  The E-W lights are _not_ green when
> the crossing lights begin flashing.  If the E-W lights just changed
> red as a train approaches, there is a short period when traffic is
> stopped in all directions.
>
> > Elizabeth Greenbaum wrote:
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