I have just been skimming this thread, so maybe this has already been pointed
out, but when I went outside this morning at 7 a.m. the air smelled like
gasoline. And a cough that had cleared up during my holiday vacation has
returned.
This is not the Minneapolis I moved to in 1979. Winter was bi
Mark Anderson of Bancroft writes:
"Arrrgh! More kudos for the wonders of traffic
calming. I've never seen any traffic calming that
improved safety city-wide."
(JC) Traffic calming does improve safety city-wide by
making the city safer, one street at a time. I can
testify as a bicyclist on Fran
In a message dated 1/1/03 9:12:30 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes (in part):
The safest plan is to allow
traffic to move as quickly as possible on the major streets, and spend the
money on keeping pedestrians and cars separated (maybe put up fences?).
I do not agree that cars
Jeff Carlson wrote:
> Your harrowing bicycle experience in Uptown is
> repeated all over the city on the roads that remain to
> be traffic-calmed. Fortunately, traffic calming is
> improving bicycle and pedestrian safety all over the
> city.
>
> For those unfamiliar with the term, traffic calming
khart
Bryn Mawr
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>Subject: Re: [Mpls] Re: Bike Racks and Paths
>Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:14:58 -0600
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>Seems to me the Mpls Planning Commission could look at incorporating the
>request for bike racks
Plenty of other cities have bike parking ordinances, requiring
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>Subject: Re: [Mpls] Re: Bike Racks and Paths
>Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:14:58 -0600
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>Seems to me the Mpls Planning Com
I had assumed we were talking about racks at local stores for the shopper. I
had not envisioned this as the same dialogue as bike racks, lockers and a
shower for employees. So sounds like there is two parts to the equation My
guess is it will be easier to get bike racks for the customers whil
I am assuming the City Council Zoning and Planning will need to pass an ordinance directing MCDA to include bike racks as a part of future developments. I have been more aware of who does have bicycle racks since my first post about Target not having bicycle racks. Owner operated small businesses
I agree with Annie on this completely, but I would add another question.
That would be "how many bike lockers do you plan to install?"
I would agree that racks are more important than lockers, but lockers are
something else that needs to be considered - especially as a way to
encourage bicycle
Seems to me the Mpls Planning Commission could look at incorporating the
request for bike racks when projects come before us. After all the hours we
spent on Target and/or Block E or on the new Guthrie - seems the least we can
do is say, " and how many bike racks do you plan to install?" Seems
Bike racks.
The unfortunate reality is that the installation of bicycle racks is at the discretion
of the owner and the designer of new projects. I worked on the Uptown Transit
Station, and we installed bicycle racks because the client, Metro Transit,
specifically requested them. The city cod
Mike Jones writes:
Downtown is woefully scant of bike racks. You would
think they would
be an
obvious investment to go along with all of the bike
lanes.
Also, we need bike lanes ALL the way down Hennepin,
down Lake, down
Franklin
and down Lyndale, especially here in Uptown. I'm sick
of SUVs
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