Stop the Lynnhurst Plan! No New Traffic at 51st & James Ave.

Leave the parkway alone! There is no reason to do this plan. Waste of money!

While you are doing your studies, be sure to estimate the INCREASED likelihood a child will be injured or killed during drop-off or pick-up between 50th and 51st on James. This plan make no sense.

The south end of the bridge on James is blind to traffic coming over the crest of the hill. Very dangerous for pedestrians and proposed cycle path there. Many children on James. Safety is the major risk with these plans to re-route traffic and make a bike/ped path.

Please do not close or restrict auto traffic on the Parkway.

This is a foolish plan, a solution in search of a problem. Please reconsider!

Mt. olivet member, thank you for reconsidering this plan to increase traffic

Please consider other options

Keep our neighborhood safe. Take more time to rethink your plans please.

The traffic diversion to James Avenue is poorly conceived. Please improve the current traffic flow instead.

The data was not there there to support this plan in the summer. Adam A suspended the plan to collect more data. This is not a data driven plan. This is a plan driven by the park board employee and/or commissioners that went looking for data that would support their vision. You represent the public. Listen to them please.

The parkway plan is costly and unnecessary. Why not implement simple, inexpensive changes like speed bumps and signage. MPB needs to maintain the features it has before creating new ones that are not needed and damaging the jewel of the Grand Rounds.

The proposed road changes around Lynnhurst Park to Minnehaha Parkway are completely unnecessary. There is no problem and it does not need a solution of closing roads. Moving more traffic to additional city side streets such as James is an extremely poor idea given the reasons in the petition.

The Grand Rounds was designed as an artery of inspiration, to show Minneapolis to its best advantage. It is our gem, our point of pride, our Eifel Tower. Rerouting traffic will create a whole new set of problems, mainly having to people having to find their way back to the Parkway, creating more problems by doing so. Safety at 51st and James is another issue, and it is not a small one. It is a real one.

The proposed changes do not make sense. Leave the parkway alone. This is a dangerous change & our kids are at risk. The parkway is meant to be enjoyed by all.

This plan will cause more trouble for access to my church (Mount Olivet). Also worry about danger to kids around Burroughs school. This does not seem to be thoroughly thought investigated.

The closing of the road is not the best idea especially for traffic around the school.

Addition traffic to James between 50th and 51st is CRAZY. There are hundreds of children on James - both attending Burrough and Mount Olivet youth activities. Not to mention parking issues already a significant issue on James for school and church activities such that is congests drive-thru traffic. If parking restrictions were to be put in place, that will only push parking issues further into the surrounding neighborhoods.

We need to keep our children safe! The school and church traffic flow need to be a priority.

This project needs to not happen!!! It is irresponsible and dangerous!

I agree the Lynnhurst parking lot is awkward — surely there has to be a better solution than this, though. I feel there are too many kids and active people frequently in that area to justify an increase in traffic flow there without escalating the risk for injury.