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
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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