Keep voting AND feel free to change your vote - my intentions are merely to stimulate discussion, add specificity to the discussion, and create a snapshot on how people feel about this issue this week. Next week the results might be different.
ALSO - I'm hoping that the poll format draws some new voices into the discussion. LURKERS - feel free to vote.
================================================= 1) Based on what you know today, would you like to see a light rail system built in St. Paul ALONG - University Ave. (similar to the Hiawatha corridor system)?
YES or NO
Optional: short explanation of vote (or caveat).
150 words or less
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Mike FrattoYES
The one problem I do see is both directions of University will lose a lane of traffic if the system went down the center. Then there would be the obvious need for increases space for stops. This means that we would have to vacate and demolish one side of University.
However, placing light rail anywhere else, will take business away from University Avenue. Unfortunately, there is no other alternative, except possibly using the frontage roads along I 94
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Erik Hare
NO
The money that would consume could serve many times the number of people and provide a better success story if used in other ways. Lite Rail is not a trolley, and is too heavy for the middle of a street, making the cost / service payback totally out of whack.
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Ruth Schumi
YES ------------------------------------------------- Jules Goldstein
NO ------------------------------------------------- Michael Mischke
YES
I'd vote yes if it meant that on-street parking would not be lost for the many small businesses on University that depend on it. University has the greatest transit use (buses) of any corridor in the Twin Cities, and is where the Twin Cities' first light rail line SHOULD have gone.
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John Birrenbach
NO
As is planned it would mean major disruptions in a now thriving community. It will also divide a community just now recovering from being divided once by the Interstate. We don't learn from the past we are destined to repeat it in the future.
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