City Engineer: One-Way 8th Avenue is Four or Five Years Away
The City Council agreed to explore the idea further, but planners want to time the redesign to coincide with the Southwest Light Rail Transit project.
City Council members on Tuesday gave the go-ahead to explore the idea of a one-way, revamped Eighth Avenue further, but it’ll be four or five years until the renovation comes to fruition. “I don’t have any illusions of it being an easy process,” City Engineer John Bradford said. If the redesign idea goes forward, it would be timed to coincide with Southwest Light Rail Transit project, probably waiting until 2017 or 2018, Bradford said. That would provide sufficient time for the establishment of the Klodt mixed-use development project, which is supposed to have its first units on the market in April 2014. It also would offer more time for the city to build support for the idea. In addition to the Klodt project, a redesign, particularly the …
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Norman Teigen
8:33 am on Thursday, November 15, 2012
Interesting. The City of Hopkins is going about this in a responsible way as your report indicates. HIstorically, this part of the city has undergone great change. The old tractor factory, the streetcar loop over the railroad tracks, the creation of Excelsior Boulevard to alleviate traffic from Main Street, the removal of the nearby Hennepin County Poor Farm, and the creation of the Super Valu … more ›