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Set up to FAIL.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2010-08-09 09:00.

The Union Pacific land taking was a plan set up to fail.

St Paul already has a HUGE transit right of way lease through that land, the 4 lane little used (for 4 lanes anyway) Ayd Mill Road! It is probably over half the corridor wide.

The St Paul City Council has already approved a downgrade of Ayd Mill Road to 2 lanes and that leaves what? 2 lanes of already paved non-motorized transit "highway".  But the public works and mayor instead embark on a further taking of rail transit corridor that they knew would FAIL.

Why?  Ayd Mill is seen as a truck corridor from the South to North with land already accumulated to hook it to I94.   I35E is truck-blocked and car blocked by federal court rulings, Ayd Mill is not.  Highway interests are the blocking the Greenway, not rail.  This was just a ruse to not build bikeway and then blame it on rail. The $7.5 million was seen as peanuts compared to the $250 million they want to freeway hook up Ayd Mill to the north and upgrade to full freeway. Look at the history of Ayd Mill under Mayor Kelly, Norm Coleman and in the I35E EIS lawsuit.

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