The 19 and the 23 buses run past the new library. It would be about a 7 block walk to the light rail line if you decide not to transfer from a bus. I am assuming that bus traffic will increase significantly as soon as light rail begins services. This is a great location for "smart growth" (mixed us
>From Metro Transit Sector 5 Project Manager regarding current thinking
on buses serving Roosevelt Library at 28th Ave S & 40th St.
We propose to keep Route 19 intact on 28th Ave between 58th St. and
38th St., and on its current route to Golden Valley and Robbinsdale via
Cedar Ave, Downtown Mpls,
I have a comment to make about this.
No has mentioned the two main bus lines that go past this site the 19
and I think its the 38. The 19 which currently runs from Brookdale
through Downtown to MOA, but I believe that Metro Transit is going to
have that route end at the 38th St Station. The oth
Hello All:
I live several blocks from the proposed Roosevelt Library project and support a mixed use with Library, coffee shop or resturaunt, day care, and housing built above. I would like the project to be developed with smaller locally based owner operated business. I am excited about this proj
"Mark Snyder" wrote:
> Who says the development has to include something like a McD's or a
> Laundromat? Why couldn't there be something cool like a café or coffee
shop
> that only sells fair trade coffee to raise awareness of how most
commercial
> coffee producers exploit the land and the far
On 9/26/02 8:38 PM, "Becker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I was also thinking about the Roosevelt Library proposal and how there is a
> proposal to make it part of a mixed use development. How the Library would
> sit there, next to the laundry mat and maybe a McDonald's and someone's
> grocer
I know we're all hearty Minnesotans, happy to walk 3 miles around the
frozen lake in subzero temperatures just to see the sun, but 1/4 mile is
still considered normal "walking distance" when considering how far a
person will walk for goods or services.
The (sad) fact is most people will hop in th
I strongly agree with the points John Rocker makes in favor of mixed-use
development and increasing density along transit routes, but six blocks is
too far to walk from a library to an LRT stop?
No wonder obesity is becoming an epidemic in the United States.
I remember back in the good ol' days
