This would open up a lot more land for development and help de-suburbify this intersection. I know we dont really have the money and all but I drew this "before and after" a while back and was wondering what you guys thought of it.
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Good idea! Especially since the CIty wants to make Washington a "gateway" of sorts to downtown, and having Cedar Ave run directly to Washington would facilitate that reality.
It could go either way I guess. It all depends on how much the city wants to spend on it. I think it would be best to have a bridge over Cedar if cost prohibited the rest from being elevated.Seems like a good idea. Did you think about whether the light-rail line would be grade-separated at all, particularly at Franklin and at Cedar? Traffic can back up a bit on Cedar near that entrance ramp to EB I-94. There's also a bike path along the LRT line to consider, but that might not be too big of a deal.
If it's going to be at grade then those streets can be nixed, but if it's elevated I think it would be kinda cool to drive underneath them.I'm not sure if there's a whole lot of value in 19th Avenue/Snelling Avenue being a regular street near Franklin -- it might be good to design that as a transit mall, or to have no real street at all, though that might depend a bit on whether the tracks are elevated at that spot or not.
It would be nice to underground the light rail line along Cedar Ave with stations at Riverside and Franklin.
Let's keep discussion related to this project here.Hello again everybody! This is Tyler again from the Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition. You may have heard that Hennepin County will be reconfiguring the notorious Franklin/Cedar/Minnehaha intersection next year. To go with that, we're gathering input on 3 concepts for how to improve bike safety in the intersection.
Please take our survey about the three concepts here:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3SRWGWZ
The concepts are explained in detail in the survey.
We will be passing these responses onto the County and will work with them to find safe solution for this intersection.
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