Franklin Avenue

Bikes, cars, pedestrians: Crashes and safety on Franklin Ave discussed at public meeting in Minneapolis

By Tina McCabe, TC Daily Planet

(Photo by Tina McCabe)

“We have a safety problem on this corridor. This corridor gets higher than normal motor vehicle crash rates, almost two and a half times what the base line should be,” said Bill Schultheiss, a senior engineer for Toole Design Group, during the third public meeting addressing prospective biking and walking improvements on Franklin Avenue.

“It’s a city, it’s a built environment. We’re not going to tear down buildings and widen things and move people away and spend hundreds of millions of dollars,” said Schultheiss as many questions about new street arrangements came up. The discussion was fueled mainly by bicyclists concerned about safely and mobility on Franklin Avenue, a corridor that currently has no bike lanes and narrow sidewalks which poses big issues for the hundreds of bikers and pedestrians who use it daily.

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First look at Franklin Avenue "vision" at Frankly 27th Open House-September 27

By Jeremy Stratton, The Bridge
Seward’s first chance to check out aspects of the new draft vision for Franklin Avenue will come on Sept.MORE »

Franklin redevelopment depends on grassroots

By Dennis Geisinger, Southside Pride
Partners for the redesign of the nearly mile and a quarter of Franklin Avenue that serves as the central business corridor through the Seward neighborhood released a “Draft Community Vision” document MORE »
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