Terry Matula ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
"And what evidence can you point to that indicates that adding lanes is a bad thing?
I find it curious that so many people care so little about factual information when it
comes to transportation issues."
It's not always the present facts that are disturbing. The idea (several years ago
squashed) of expanding 35W between the Crosstown and Downtown--and myself possibly
having a freeway sound wall for a view if they tear down the block to our east to do
it--that is a "bad thing." Not to mention people being forced to move because someone
20 miles further out doesn't want their speedometer needle to flutter under 65 mph...
"List manager" (we all know the man behind the curtain?) wrote:
"�should city officials lobby to delay the Crosstown Project, to keep lanes open and
ease the heavy impact (while perhaps stretching it out) on South Minneapolis
neighborhoods where commuters will inevitably cut through? OR What mitigation steps
SHOULD the neighborhoods try to get?"
Preferable to me, that the commuters should remain in that concrete riverbed than to
have them speeding through our neighborhoods (and some of them ending up with their
cars entangled in my fence in the inevitable increase in accidents at our
intersections)� That one reason for the Crosstown being altered is for safety reasons,
bothers me--the accidents along 62 are less due to its design than to drivers'
impatience. I say, cancel the project altogether and just keep the potholes filled.
Too late for that, I suppose...
[Driscoll2] wrote: "[the commuters] actually admit to preferring a freeway parking
lot where they spend twice the time they do when the flow is faster as long as the
gummint isn't telling them what to do! By Gad."
Well, they made their bed[room communitie]s in Ham Lake, Princeton, and various exurbs
in Wisconsin, now they can lie in it. THis isn't anti-suburb sentiment, it's just
reality that if you're further away from your job, you shouldn't expect to get to work
faster than those half the distance or less...
It'a kind of bizarre but the ramp meters democratized commuting: After dropping off
my spouse at her job in St. Louis Park, my gantlet through two separate meters on Hwy
100 and I394 make my commute time exactly the same as the Cargill V.P. who lives in
Deephaven!!!! (Wait, what am I saying?!)
Luther Krueger whose commute (when Jo takes Metro Transit) is under 12 minutes from
35th and 1st Av. S., to my ramp at 4th & Nicollet.
Lyndale, 8th Ward
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