Here are some of the reasons that I think people get irritated by waiting
at a stop light for 10 minutes:
they have appointments
they have children
they have competing demands on their time
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, MJ Mueller wrote:
> Emilie asks: Just out of curiosity, if you could save that 10 mi
I think we all would agree that traffic has increased, but the
particular issue that has all our dander up is the lights and timing
issue. They seem totally inappropriate (stopped in all directions),
wasteful (time and fuel consumption - not being able to turn when LRT is
on opposite side), and
Emilie asks: Just out of curiosity, if you could save that 10 minutes you're
timing
waiting for a stop light on Hiawatha, where would you spend them?
Not burning fossil fuel. A mattter of 10 minutes in my day to day life is
pretty inconsequential as far as what I may be doing instead of sitting
The LRT is not the only thing that has effected increased traffic levels
on Hiawatha Ave. The improvements north of Lake St. in recent years
along with the significantly increased access from the south below 46th
St. have all added cars. It also seems to me like traffic is increasing
on most
I travel down Hiawatha to Fort Snelling and back nearly every day.
It's my perception that the lights favor the east bound traffic far
more than is necessary. A previous poster made the obvious statement
that lights can not be synchronized for both directions of travel at
the same time. This
In my case I was on a tight schedule to get my two children to the Children's Theater
for a play - I was furious for it ended up making us 15 minutes late and we missed the
beginning of the play.
The other time that really affected me was the time I was on the way to my night class
at St. Mary'
Just out of curiosity, if you could save that 10 minutes you're timing
waiting for a stop light on Hiawatha, where would you spend them?
Emilie Quast
SE Como
(yes, I take the bus to work. I tried going back to driving and found I
missed the reading time.)
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