Solution to Congestion: Two Fewer Traffic Lanes

When the I-35W bridge collapsed in Minneapolis, the city closed the adjacent 10th Avenue bridge so rescue workers could use it to recover injured people and bodies. Now that all the missing people have been found, the city plans to reopen it tomorrow — with two fewer traffic lanes.

10th Avenue Bridge with pre-collapse I-35W in background.
Wikipedia photo.

Originally, the bridge had four 11-foot traffic lanes, 11.5 feet for bikes, and 8 feet for pedestrians. The reopened bridge will have 12 feet for bikes, 8 feet for pedestrians, a new 11-foot pedestrian lane for viewing the collapsed bridge, and two 15-foot lanes for auto traffic.
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This may actually have been a compromise; some people, such as the first commenter on this blog, think the bridge should have been reopened to pedestrians and bikes only. The city spent $120,000 to make this “improvement.”

Meanwhile, after announcing that the rebuilt I-35W bridge won’t include room for light rail due to federal emergency funding rules, the state decided to add light rail to the new bridge at its own expense — an estimated $20 to $35 million. Of course, once they spend that, they’ll say, “Now we have to build a complete light-rail line, otherwise that money will have been wasted.”

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The Antiplanner is a forester and economist with more than fifty years of experience critiquing government land-use and transportation plans.

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