Dear Mayor, Council Members, City Manager and Department Directors
Mathwig and Culver,
The Roseville Review reports:
The Roseville City Council was updated April 15 about planned safety
improvements to a stretch of Larpenteur Avenue where two pedestrians
were killed in a single crash earlier this year. Ramsey County plans
to convert the four-lane, undivided roadway into three lanes with a
center left-turn lane between Dale and Rice streets, said city Public
Works Director Marc Culver. The work, expected to be done in late
summer, will also include three marked crosswalks with center refuge
medians on the road, which forms the border between Roseville and St.
Paul.
Culver pointed out to the council that the deaths of two Roseville
residents, hit by what police say were two different vehicles on Jan.
3 near Woodbridge Court, is not the main reason for the planned work.
βItβs never our intention to do improvements simply as a reaction to
these types of incidents and we would hope to be as proactive as
possible to avoid these types of tragedies,β he said.
http://www.lillienews.com/articles/2019/04/23/county-plans-fewer-lanes-larpenteur-increase-safety
If the 4-lane to 3-lane conversion makes sense on Larpenteur between
Rice and Dale, then it makes as much or more sense on County Road C
between Rice and Lexington. Is the Roseville public works director
truly trying to avoid these tragedies before they happen, or is Mr.
Culver, in fact, waiting for someone to get killed trying to walk
across the street before doing the same sort of common sense 4-lane to
3-lane conversion on County Road C?
Sheldon Gitis, Roseville
Mathwig and Culver,
The Roseville Review reports:
The Roseville City Council was updated April 15 about planned safety
improvements to a stretch of Larpenteur Avenue where two pedestrians
were killed in a single crash earlier this year. Ramsey County plans
to convert the four-lane, undivided roadway into three lanes with a
center left-turn lane between Dale and Rice streets, said city Public
Works Director Marc Culver. The work, expected to be done in late
summer, will also include three marked crosswalks with center refuge
medians on the road, which forms the border between Roseville and St.
Paul.
Culver pointed out to the council that the deaths of two Roseville
residents, hit by what police say were two different vehicles on Jan.
3 near Woodbridge Court, is not the main reason for the planned work.
βItβs never our intention to do improvements simply as a reaction to
these types of incidents and we would hope to be as proactive as
possible to avoid these types of tragedies,β he said.
http://www.lillienews.com/articles/2019/04/23/county-plans-fewer-lanes-larpenteur-increase-safety
If the 4-lane to 3-lane conversion makes sense on Larpenteur between
Rice and Dale, then it makes as much or more sense on County Road C
between Rice and Lexington. Is the Roseville public works director
truly trying to avoid these tragedies before they happen, or is Mr.
Culver, in fact, waiting for someone to get killed trying to walk
across the street before doing the same sort of common sense 4-lane to
3-lane conversion on County Road C?
Sheldon Gitis, Roseville
