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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by n012944 [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by EUCLID TRAVIS [ [/quote] I don’t know when it became written in stone that we don’t have any room to expand the freeways. We have gobs of room around Minneapolis and Saint Paul. I have heard that for the billion dollars that we spent on our 12-mile light rail hobby, we could have added another lane to the entire ring freeway, bridges and all. And a lack of room certainly did not stop the light rail project. We rearranged half of downtown to shoehorn that in. [/quote] From a google search " Taxpayers have spent well over $800 million on 394 -- and congestion in the western suburbs gets worse every year." Bert [/quote] Bert, The 394 improvement is not in use, or even finished yet, so I don't know how you can judge its impact on traffic in the western suburbs. In general, if money is spent on roads, and traffic is still getting worse, they need to spend more to keep up with the problem or get ahead of it. They just spent $1billion on the Hiawatha LRT, and its effect on traffic is so small that it cannot be measured. If they had put that money into the roads, there would have been a BIG improvment in traffic flow.
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