Hi Neighbor,
      Neighborhoods First! Newsletter

Info at http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hause011/NF
        http://www.aydmill.org

>> No Connect Signs are Now Available! Snappy New Design!  
   Pick-up your sign at:

   Lexington-Hamline Community Council at Dunning Field
   1221 Marshall Avenue
   Saint Paul, MN 55104
   Phone: 651.645-3207 for sign pickup or hours 3pm-5:30pm

   Hamline-Midway Community Council
   1564 Snelling Av at LaFond
   St Paul 
   651.646-1986

   $4.00 donation requested but not required.  Send donations to:

   Neighborhoods First!
   PO Box 40216
   St Paul, MN 55104

   What a great gift for the HOLIDAYS!

   Or reply to this email with Name, address, and we will make sure
   to drop off a new sign.

>> The 6-month Ayd Mill Road traffic measurement data is in.  
   The numbers clearly show that car traffic has increased in 
   our neighborhoods twice the rate of other nieghborhoods
   and we demand that the test be stopped!  

   Thanks to Don Ludeman for providing a synopsis, charts and 
   graphs using data collected by city staff.  These numbers include 
   traffic counts and traffic patterns for the test connection of 
   Ayd Mill Road to I-35E.

   What we want: An immediate end to Randy Kelly's illegal test.
   At the very least, the road MUST be closed at the conclusion of 
   the one-year "test." The neighborhoods voted for a linear park.  
   Close the road and add much needed green space to our city!  

>> Next Neighborhoods First Community Meeting:
   Will be scheduled mid to late January, 2003.  More details coming 
   soon via e-mail, phone and fliers. Traffic analysis of the
   "test" data will be presented and analyzed.

   Members of the media will be invited.  It is important 
   that they know that the "test" connection of Ayd Mill Road is 
   hurting our neighborhoods!

>> Stripe, Walk and Ride Proposal 
   (see full proposal at www.aydmill.org)
   Share the street by striping two lanes of Ayd Mill Road 
   for bicycle and pedestrian traffic. Safety is enhanced 
   because the east lanes are physically separate from the car 
   traffic in the west lanes, which have the access ramps. 
   Stripe, Walk and Ride proposal was presented to the St Paul 
   District Councils.  Eleven district councils plus the Neighborhood 
   Energy Consortium reviewed the proposal and supported the main
   point that pedestrian and bike access would be of benefit to 
   the larger community. 

   Even Mayor Kelly supported adding bike and pedestrian access 
   on Ayd Mill in the September 5th, 2002 Pioneer Press at:
   http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/news/local/4003664.htm

   With the overwhelming support of bike and pedestrian access, 
   no Ayd Mill "test" scenario includes bikes and pedestrians. 
   The Ayd Mill corridor even connects to the Minneapolis Greenway 
   with an existing bridge over the Mississippi.

   Mr. Mayor Kelly, your excellency, where is the bike and pedestrian 
   access to Ayd Mill Road you promised? Let's "test" your proposal.

   Contact Mayor Randy Kelly, politely tell him your position. Do 
   not just try one method of contact, try all methods.
   Citizens Service Line: 651-266-8989

   Phone: 651-266-8510
   Fax: 651-266-8513
   Randy.Kelly@ci.stpaul.mn.us
   web "http://www.stpaul.gov/mayor/contact_mayor.html" 

   US Mail
   Mayor Randy Kelly
   390 City Hall
   15 West Kellog Boulevard
   St Paul, MN 55102

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