[Mpls] Bottineau Boulevard Abuts West Broadway/Give a Crape'

[Dyna]

On Monday, January 10, 2005, at 01:37 AM, PennBroKeith at cs.com wrote:

> News Flash: Highway 81 will be Bottineau Blvd. from Wirth Parkway to 
> the
> Northwestern edge of the Earth. Currently, east of Wirth, in North 
> Mpls, highway
> 81 is called West Broadway.

	It is quite appropriate to name CSAH 81 after the great 19th century 
French-Indian explorer, peace maker, and civil servant Pierre 
Bottineau. From our city limits northwest CSAH 81 follows not the route 
of West Broadway but the route of former US52 to Osseo and then former 
MN 152, closely parallelling the old Great Northern tracks to St.Cloud. 
If the 'burbs want to extend their Bottineau Boulevard into Minneapolis 
a better route would be across Lowry, a street misnamed after a 
streetcar magnate but too hilly for streetcars to navigate.

	Which begs the question... will the Lowry Avenue Bridge ever reopen?

		(not) holding my breath in Hawthorne,

			Dyna Sluyter