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On the article First of Many Public Meetings about Bottineau Completed, Residents Angry
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On the article If Council Agrees to Move Bottineau Studies Forward, What's Next?
Kasia
10:27 am on Saturday, December 8, 2012
ReplySo Golden Valley is going to pay millions of dollars to study the light rail project that will go through our parks and communities, lower our property values, and leave us no better off transportation wise? Why isn't there a better option? I have a map with some of the options I would like to see:
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On the article What Do You Know About Bottineau's D-1, D-2 Alignments?
Kasia
12:17 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
Andy, why does the Minneapolis Building and Trades Council care where the light rail is going to be built? Won't there be more jobs no matter whether it is D-1 or D-2? Also, D-1 does cut through neighborhoods, it cuts through neighborhoods in Golden Valley, and without actually providing a service to the residents. Both alignments don't work and we need to go back to the drawing board and do it right.
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On the article Bottineau Survey Shows Light Rail Support
Kasia
12:10 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
ReplyIf the survey is not scientific, then it is completely worthless. You can design a survey to get the results you want. All this survey business tells us is that the Minneapolis Building and Construction Trades Council wants light rail built and they are willing to say and do anything to see that it does.
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On the article Study: Transportation Investment Could Have $10B Payback
Kasia
12:50 pm on Tuesday, December 4, 2012
ReplyThe equation used to calculate the cost/benefit of proposed routes for the Federal Transit Administration clearly does not consider the effects to park land. I think if the feds realized Minnesota would use that calculation to plow through ALL of our main parks, they might have modified the equation. Let,s use common sense, pay a little more to build a route that will actually serve the community (like the routes suggested in Elaine's comment), not just the "cheapest" routes which go through the Grand Rounds National Scenic Byways.
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On the article OPINION: Southwest LRT Process is ‘Anti-democratic and Unaccountable’
Kasia
12:45 pm on Tuesday, December 4, 2012
ReplyLet's stand up for a better option! We don't have to sacrifice parks to get a modern transportation system.
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On the article Residents Urge Council to Say 'No' to Bottineau
Kasia
12:43 pm on Tuesday, December 4, 2012
ReplyNo matter which political party you belong to, anyone can see that this project and its current route is a waste of money. On top of that it will destroy communities and parks. Let's not sit back and watch it happen, stand up for common sense:
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On the article What Do You Know About Bottineau's D-1, D-2 Alignments?
Kasia
12:38 pm on Tuesday, December 4, 2012
ReplyThe current route options (D-1 and D-2) are both bad. Why do the outer suburbs need to ride through existing urban area into downtown, why not shuttle them in along 394 or 55? Golden Valley residents are not going to park-and-ride into downtown. And people with a choice are not going to move into homes with large lots (like in Golden Valley), with high property taxes, only to deal with noise and nuisance. The homes closest to the light rail will lose value (its just common sense), and the character of the neighborhood will change. Please visit saveminneapolisparks.wordpress.com to learn more. It doesn't have to be this way-let's find a better route.
Kasia
9:05 pm on Sunday, March 3, 2013
I attended both of the meetings, and 90% of the comments were concerns from residents about how light rail will negatively impact Theodore Wirth Park. The most frequently stated concerns were: "where will all the parking go?" and "why are we using the regional park land to build a transit project?"
The Minneapolis Parks Board does not have any authority over whether the light rail will go through the park, and was caught by surprise in the last few months when the Bottineau route was selected. These meetings were a way for the Parks Board to get information and comments about how they should plan for such an enormous change, and there were distinguished landscape designers from all over the country to provide sketches and design solutions.
One of the landscape designers presented a power point slideshow of light rail projects around the country that intersect city parks, but the scale to which parkland is being compromised by the Bottineau Transitway is simply unprecedented. That was interesting!