Archive for January, 2008
Saturday, January 19th, 2008
Curb Appeal
The proposed design of the Bridge is to be a single-point diamond interchange and will look similar to the Penn Avenue Bridge over I-494. While the Penn Avenue Bridge won awards and gets an “A” for its traffic engineering, it fails to enhance the aesthetic of the road, respect neighborhoods, and provide opportunities as a [...]
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Wow, The Show REALLY ISN’T over til the Fat Lady Sings….
“It ain’t over ’til it’s over” ~Yogi Berra
I guess I was right. I attended the January 15th meeting of the Community Services Commission meeting where the “Final” 75th and 76th Streetscape Schematic Design” was presented by the H.R. Green Consultants to the commission members for action. The only thing was that Jonathan Vlaming, the Planning [...]
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
The Show ain’t over til the Fat Lady Sings….
January 10th at Richfield city hall, was the presentation of preferred alternative. That is, bike lanes on BOTH 76th and 75th and sidewalks on both sides on 76th following the complete span from 35W to Cedar Avenue. So needless to say I was doing the happy dance. At the January 2nd Transportation Commission Meeting, they voted [...]
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
Lyndale Bridge over I-494
It’s coming, I look forward to it with both hope and dread. The current bridge is not only pedestrian and bike unfriendly to say the least (I think the 1 foot sidewalks were only designed as a place for trash in the summer and plowed snow in the winter and never were intended for [...]