#302 01-03-72 MnDOT Transportatioin Policies I-394Resolution No. 302 January 3, 1972
Member Stockman introduced the following resolution and MOVED. its adoption:
RESOLUTION
(Minnesota State Highway Department
Basic Transportation Policies
and Proposed I-394)
RESOLVED, That the Council of the Village of Golden Valley recommends and
urges the Minnesota Highway Department to permit the Metro Council to state
basic transportation policies for planning and direction of the inter -modal
transportation systems for serving west Minneapolis and the suburbs to the west.
Further the Metropolitan Council should appoint a Project Management Board to
work in conjunction with standing organizations involved with transportation
systems planning for the areas noted above including the Minnesota Highway
Department, the Metro Transit Commission and the Citizens Advisory Committee
for I-394. The Board should include representation of the essential community
components of the Citizens Advisory Committee on I-394. The Metro Council
should accelerate the study of the transportation systems plan for inclusion
in the Phase II study of the Consultant to the Highway Department.
Function of said Board should be to:
1. Redirect and expand the scope of the study of the Western transportation
system (I-394) to include greater consideration of all feasible and
anticipated transportation modes.
2. Develop comprehensive objectives including modal splits for the Western
Transportation Corridors. (Modal splits; ratio of public to total
ridership)
3. Implement in all planning of the Transportation Systems, the Criteria for
Planning of New Transportation System Components - Combined Auto and
Transit, as outlined below:
1. Preserve and enhance the life style of our community and successfully
deal with humanistic values. It should reflect the aspirations and
2. Provide for ease of vehicular movement onto and from the major arteries
with safety and minimum disruption of community traffic patterns.
3. Assist in the re -kindling of Village unity by providing visual, pedes-
trian and transportation ties that permit free movement between
neighborhoods without hazards of high speed devices or routes.
4. Abate noise, visual and biological effects of transportation vehicles.
5. Provide for absolute minimum disruption of our residential, commercial
and industrial areas and strive to maintain the functional workability
of the School Districts, the parks system and other community facilities.
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6. Provide for multi -modal transportation system components within
existing rights-of-way.
7. Alleviate any concept that our Village should suffer consequences
for the convenience of others. The transportation systems should
provide an improvement which is both a physical and socialogical
asset to the Village of Golden Valley.
8. Provide simultaneous considerations and proposals for utilizing
all existing routes for dispersion and minimize dependency on any
single route.
9. Upgrade North-South multi -mode transportation systems to relieve
the major East-West routes.
10. Coordinate all appropriate data and planning with planners preparing
the overall comprehensive plan for the Village.
11. Decrease dependency on automobile for trips to the Central Business
District by providing improved access, service quality and market-
ability of public transportation.
12. Provide mass and rapid transit designs utilizing exclusive right of
way for devices not limited to busses based on mid -point adequacy
of transportation facilities projected through 1995. A system to
maintain status quo at time of its installation should not be built.
13. Design transportation systems based on policy determinations of
desired modal splits in the various corridors, with an effort to
achieve 50% reliance on transit to handle peak hour overloads.
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Mayor
Attest:
Village Clerk
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by
Member Ulstad, and upon vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor
thereof: Hoover, Paulson, Riggs, Stockman, and Ulstad; and the following voted
against the same: None, whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and
adopted, signed by the Mayor, and his signature attested by the Village Clerk.
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