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President Meg Forney. Who saw that coming?Park Commissioners elected Meg Forney as President and Alicia D. Smith as Vice President.
I'll try if 26th is safe enough. It's not a critical link though, just an extension of the trail and a part of larger plans. 2nd St is honestly pretty well used by cyclists and runners and could be made safer.New trail connection proposed between the 26th St Overlook and Ole Olson Park. This is such a needed link!
https://www.minneapolisparks.org/park_c ... onnection/
https://www.minneapolisparks.org/wp-con ... -North.pdf
During yesterday's City Council Meeting on the North Commons Park transformation, a staff member said they don't take into account community centers or something. I was like, "Huh?"Minneapolis ranked 5th in TPL parkscore ranking.
https://www.tpl.org/parkscore
I'm not sure what to make of this. Are these ratings believable? I feel Minneapolis was short changed a bit.
Really? Did they look at the data? Probably the most glaring issue I see is not including the lakes as parkland. For example TPL has Lake Harriet listed at 119.3 acres but the park department shows it as 470.07 acres. This wouldn't be such a big deal if other cities didn't get to claim water as parks. However, New York for example claims thousands of acres of ocean as parkland. I find it baffling that Theodore Wirth park has multiple bodies of water but the only one not counted as parkland is the one inside the city limits. Having the lakes counted would have easily pushed Minneapolis into 2nd or 1st place.During yesterday's City Council Meeting on the North Commons Park transformation, a staff member said they don't take into account community centers or something. I was like, "Huh?"Minneapolis ranked 5th in TPL parkscore ranking.
https://www.tpl.org/parkscore
I'm not sure what to make of this. Are these ratings believable? I feel Minneapolis was short changed a bit.
That is huge! Very important connection between northside and the riverOn the riverfront trail breaking through to the north past the rail bridge. https://mplsparksfoundation.org/buildin ... nnections/
It's going to be primarily used by the run group at Mill City Running for their group runs from St Anthony Main and folks biking up there to the regional park from the Downtown riverfront, not from folks in the Northside. This isn't an area folks really live, there are also a series of steep hills to get into where people live. Also that area of 26th isn't a safe enough area for people to bike or run. (The line ends as you enter the most violent part of north.) Although not perfect you can see how the users in this heatmap don't make it close to 2nd via 26th despite it being a connection to 2nd and going downtown or north to the regional park. (I did an arrow to show where people will go)That is huge! Very important connection between northside and the riverOn the riverfront trail breaking through to the north past the rail bridge. https://mplsparksfoundation.org/buildin ... nnections/
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Sorry but did you say the most violent part of north?? Could you elaborate...?It's going to be primarily used by the run group at Mill City Running for their group runs from St Anthony Main and folks biking up there to the regional park from the Downtown riverfront, not from folks in the Northside. This isn't an area folks really live, there are also a series of steep hills to get into where people live. Also that area of 26th isn't a safe enough area for people to bike or run. (The line ends as you enter the most violent part of north.) Although not perfect you can see how the users in this heatmap don't make it close to 2nd via 26th despite it being a connection to 2nd and going downtown or north to the regional park. (I did an arrow to show where people will go)That is huge! Very important connection between northside and the riverOn the riverfront trail breaking through to the north past the rail bridge. https://mplsparksfoundation.org/buildin ... nnections/
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Plymouth, 42nd and Victory Memorial or the E/W bike corridors in North. Plymouth is getting new bridge over 94 which should be nice.
(You can also see that there is zero activity on the Fremont and Emerson bike lanes which mirrors what I've seen both biking and running. Capturefgdgd.JPG