Ed Felien writes:
"It doesn't make sense to tear up University and make it as unsafe as
Hiawatha now is. How
many lives have already been lost to the Hiawatha Line? How many students
and neighbors will be killed by a high speed train racing through the
University and Prospect Park?"
Like Feli
Great Post..! Yes, the LRT should have used the existing lines and that
would
have been the SMART thing to do. That was also what had been told to the
community at one time...it would follow the line, no need for tree removal,
our commissioner said only a few saplings would come down towards 54
I remember it like it was only yesterday. I was a member of the Minneapolis
City Council and at a Council Meeting in 1975 I held up a map of existing
railroad right of way. I pointed out that we could have rail transit from
downtown to the airport (with maybe a stop at Lake Street). But, instead
