Lake Street Lessons

In this article, the authors describe the reconstruction of Minneapolis, Minnesota’s Lake Street, which demonstrates challenges associated with the context-sensitivity in heavily urban environments. Lake Street is a main and historic thoroughfare for St. Louis, stretching from St. Paul to St. Louis Park and originally held a trolley line. The public-private partnership (PPP) used in construction had an expected cost of $27 million for the stretch of roadway between Dupont Avenue and the Mississippi River and was broken down into three smaller projects. The contractors used a number of basic design principles in their reconstruction, including: 1) the use of very few dedicated turn lanes, 2) hybrid solutions, 3) analyzing traffic as a corridor, 4) avoiding generating street parking, and 5) keeping the design flexible.

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• Authors:
  • Dock, Frederick C
  • Zimmer, Charleen
  • Becker, Stacy
  • Abadi, Fred
• Publication Date: 2007-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Illustrations;
• Pagination: pp 60-67
• Serial:
  • Civil Engineering
  • Volume: 77
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0885-7024
  • Serial URL: http://www.pubs.asce.org/ceonline/newce/html

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: City planning; Parking; Planning and design; Public participation; Reconstruction; Streets; Streetscape; Traffic congestion
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01042922
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: BTRIS, TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 14 2007 3:30PM