traffic woes
have you ever driven on 36th street in south minneapolis between, say, 7:30-8:30 a.m. because you want to get to 35W north?
i live a half-mile from the 35W north entrance ramp. why does getting to the highway take eight or ten minutes and include five stoplights? there are so many cars – all with one person in them, of course, and that includes mine – that i sit at the green lights not going anywhere. is it because the 46th street on/off ramps are closed? i can’t tell.
i’m looking forward to spring and commuting by bike. until then, hello non-highway roads! google maps tells me you’re a shorter commuting distance anyway…i think we’ll be together a lot now.
I lived on 35th and Lyndale for about a year and wanted to slit my own wrists every time I tried to drive downtown from there. It was either the 36th Street Nightmare or hoping to hit all green lights all the way down Lyndale/Hennepin. My one word suggestion? BUS.
Or move to Northeast, which is what I did, and my commute is now 7 minutes long on a bad day.