#82-017 03-02-82 Oppose Plans For Proposed I-394Resolution 82-17
March 2, 1982 243
Member Stockman introduced and read the following resolution and moved its
adoption:
RESOLUTION OPPOSING PLANS FOR PROPOSED I-394
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Council has recommended to the Minnesota Department
of Transporation (MnDOT) a basic plan for I-394 in the Trunk Highway 12 corridor
for 9.6 miles between the cities of Wayzata and Minneapolis; and
WHEREAS, MnDOT is proceeding to implement the Metropolitan Council recommenda-
tion and has developed final design plans for I-394; and
WHEREAS, over three miles of the proposed I-394 pass through park, residential,
and commerical/industrial land, as well as environmentally important wet lands
in the City of Golden Valley; and
WHEREAS, the proposed plans for I-394 would have an overwhelmingly negative
social, economic, and environmental effect on Golden Valley; and
WHEREAS, the proposed plans for I-394 do not include a transit component
designed to meet the needs of the area or coordinated to be compatible with any
future transit facility; and
WHEREAS, the proposed plans for I-394 contain a section of reversible lanes
WHEREAS, the reversible lanes would reduce total as well as off -directional
capacity for the following reasons: limiting the roadway to only two through
anes in each direction while being shut down for a number of hours each day to
reverse direction, decreasing the number of lanes available to serve the
off -directional traffic flow, and lacking the flexibility to reverse direction
frequently or quickly enough; and
WHEREAS, the proposed plans for I-394 west of TH 100 would create capacity
in excess of the Metropolitan Council's projected demand for the year 2000; and
WHEREAS, the proposed plans for I-394 would result in concentrating a
disproportionate share of traffic to and from the west into a single corridor;
and
WHEREAS, the proposed plans for I-394 do not offer an adequate solution to
the problems presented; and
WHEREAS, the City of Golden Valley has consistently brought these deficiencies
to the attention of MnDOT and the Metropolitan Council;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Golden Valley opposes the
plans now proposed for I-394 and calls on the Federal Highway Works Administration
to reject them; and
that would create
problems of snow removal, congestion, and hazardous driver
confusion at the
I-94 tunnel entrance and various other access
points; and
WHEREAS, the
commuter freeway
east -west directional split does not conform
in that the lesser traffic flow demands nearly
to a typical
equivalent lane
capacity as the heavier
traffic flow; and
WHEREAS, the reversible lanes would reduce total as well as off -directional
capacity for the following reasons: limiting the roadway to only two through
anes in each direction while being shut down for a number of hours each day to
reverse direction, decreasing the number of lanes available to serve the
off -directional traffic flow, and lacking the flexibility to reverse direction
frequently or quickly enough; and
WHEREAS, the proposed plans for I-394 west of TH 100 would create capacity
in excess of the Metropolitan Council's projected demand for the year 2000; and
WHEREAS, the proposed plans for I-394 would result in concentrating a
disproportionate share of traffic to and from the west into a single corridor;
and
WHEREAS, the proposed plans for I-394 do not offer an adequate solution to
the problems presented; and
WHEREAS, the City of Golden Valley has consistently brought these deficiencies
to the attention of MnDOT and the Metropolitan Council;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Golden Valley opposes the
plans now proposed for I-394 and calls on the Federal Highway Works Administration
to reject them; and
244 Resolution 82-17 - Continued March 2, 1982
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of Golden Valley calls upon the Federal
Highway Works Administration to direct MnDOT to amend the plans for I-394 to
allocate a substantial portion of the projected traffic demand to Highways 7 and
55, and to provide a viable transit component so that I-394 will serve the needs
of the area.
ATTEST:
al Deputy #1ty Cler
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was seconded by Member
Johnson and upon a vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor
thereof: Anderson, Johnson, Mitchell, Stockman and Thorsen, and the following
voted against the same: none, whereupon said resolution was declared duly
passed and adopted, signed by the Mayor and her signature attested by the Deputy
City Clerk.
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