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RESOLUTION NO.
JANUARY 15, 1973
11B
4727
RESOLUTION REQUESTING CONSIDERATION OF DELETING
THE PROPOSED BUSWAY ON I-394 BY THE STATE
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
WHEREAS, it appears that the question of how the transportation
needs of St. Louis Park, the western metro -area, and the 1-394 study
area can best be met giving optimum locations to transit facilities as
well as highway facilities is not being properly addressed by the present I-394
study, and
WHEREAS, it is the opinion of the City Council of the City of St. Louis
Park that consideration must be given to serving the needs of suburban
residents as well as ensuring that the transit lines developed in this
area fit within the plans of the Metropolitan Transit Commission and the
City of Minneapolis subway plans, and
WHEREAS, the present market and much of the future potential for
transit within the study are centered in the more southern parts of St.
Louis Park, southwest Minneapolis, and Hopkins, and
WHEREAS, the construction of a busway on 1-394 makes it far less
likely that a southwest and northwest transit facility will ever be
built even though they offer far more future potential, and
UHEREAS, the proposed busway crowds the 1-394 right-of-way to the
point that local community goals cannot be met and many far reaching
negative factors such as, one-way service roads requiring an over abundance
of overpasses, lack of service roads to certain areas, a need for upgrading
many local streets to serve as bus and highway feeders emerge as a
result, and
WHEREAS, it appears that there is a distinct possibility that this
one right-of-way is being utilized to do too much in solving the trans-
portation plans of the western metro area without proper consideration
for the most effective location for transit, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of St. Louis Park
that the State Highway Commission give serious consideration to these
concerns in preparing another 1-394 preliminary layout eliminating the
busway and giving more emphasis to meeting abutting community
goals and that the long-range transit study should be adjusted
to include more study of the southwest transit corridor either in
terms of a subway or utilizing present rail or highway right-of-way.
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Adopted by the City Conci
Att
QVJ-C—)44-011
City Clerk
Reviewed for administration:
City Manager
Mayor
Approved as to form and legality:
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