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Lights on the light rail bike path From: Niko Tomlinson Date: Jul 19 15:15 UTC Short link
I was also recently informed that it's Minneapolis law that cyclists have
(and use) a light on their bikes after dark. I know many people don't
follow this law but it certainly might help your after dark riding on the
greenway or off. I imagine it's also more green than a gigantic, expansive
lighting system that's running with or without bike/pedestrian traffic for
10-12 hours a day.
-Niko On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Becca Vargo Daggett <bx@mac.com> wrote: > I'm glad to hear Metro Transit is doing something about a section of it. > > Lighting that trail was a project considered by CLIC (the citizens > committee that reviews and makes recommendations on the five year > bonding plan) this year. Cam Gordon said it was his top priority for > this cycle. Despite my arguments in favor, CLIC recommended against > funding it. I believe the problem was that it was grouped into a > single project with adding a path to both sides of Hiawatha from 26th > to 38th (those may not be the exact intersections, but that was the > idea), and people couldn't wrap their brains around why that was > needed. It distracted attention from the simple safety factor of the > lighting. > > CLIC presents to the Ways and Means Committee on Monday around 2. > Send comments to the committee members before then - Paul Ostrow, > Diane Hofstede, Gary Schiff, Sandy Colvin Roy, Elizabeth Glidden, > Betsy Hodges (council email addresses are > <email obscured>) > > Becca > > On Jul 18, 2008, at 11:51 AM, Sheldon Mains wrote: > > > Metro Transit is proposing a maintenance facility (signals, electrical > > stuff--not the LRT cars) along the bike path between 24th and 26th > > (access > > from 24th). They presented their plans to the SNG Development > > Committee a > > couple weeks ago. One of the STRONG recommendations was that they > > add lights > > along the whole path. At least they are planning on adding lights > > between > > 24th and 26th as part of this project. > > > > sheldon > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Peter Fleck [mailto:pfhyper@gmail.com] > >> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 10:35 AM > >> To: Minneapolis Seward Neighbors Forum > >> Subject: [Seward] Lights on the light rail bike path > >> > >> On an after dark ride down the Greenway and then up the paved > >> path that follows the light rail line through Seward, I was > >> shocked to discover that the path has no lights. This was a > >> moonless night and it was very, very dark. I was worried that > >> I might run into people walking on the path. > >> > >> This is the stretch from 26th Street to the 24th St. Crossing > >> (by Coastal). I'm not sure what the lighting is like north of > >> 24th. This area needs to be lit before someone gets hurt. > >> > >> -- > >> Peter Fleck > >> Seward Forum Manager > >> Blog: http://www.pfhyper.com/blog > >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/pfhyper > >> <email obscured> > >> > >> Peter Fleck > >> Seward, Minneapolis > >> Info about Peter Fleck: http://forums.e-democracy.org/p/peterfleck > >> > >> This topic's messages may be viewed at: > >> http://forums.e-democracy.org/r/topic/37yOMGuuXfyp5RaUEa16W7 > >> ----------------------------------------- > >> To post, send your message to: <email obscured> > >> To leave or for daily digest, type "unsubscribe" or "digest on," > >> in subject line and send to: <email obscured> > >> > >> More info about Minneapolis Seward Neighbors Forum: > >> http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/mpls-seward > >> > >> E-Democracy.Org rules: http://e-democracy.org/rules > >> ----------------------------------------- > >> Technical assistance thanks to our friends at http://OnlineGroups.Net > >> > > > > > > Sheldon Mains > > Seward Neighborhood, Minneapolis > > Info about Sheldon Mains: http://forums.e-democracy.org/p/sheldonmains > > > > This topic's messages may be viewed at: http://forums.e- > > democracy.org/r/topic/52oZPFilz3qXz7gacpDNMb > > ----------------------------------------- > > To post, send your message to: <email obscured> > > To leave or for daily digest, type "unsubscribe" or "digest on," > > in subject line and send to: <email obscured> > > > > More info about Minneapolis Seward Neighbors Forum: > > http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/mpls-seward > > > > E-Democracy.Org rules: http://e-democracy.org/rules > > ----------------------------------------- > > Technical assistance thanks to our friends at http://OnlineGroups.Net > > > Seward, Minneapolis > Info about Becca: http://forums.e-democracy.org/p/beccadaggett > > This topic's messages may be viewed at: > http://forums.e-democracy.org/r/topic/5xioZ0BAFVOhAG6E6y8QKZ > ----------------------------------------- > To post, send your message to: <email obscured> > To leave or for daily digest, type "unsubscribe" or "digest on," > in subject line and send to: <email obscured> > > More info about Minneapolis Seward Neighbors Forum: > http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/mpls-seward > > E-Democracy.Org rules: http://e-democracy.org/rules > ----------------------------------------- > Technical assistance thanks to our friends at http://OnlineGroups.Net >