HomeMy WebLinkAbout1976 04-07 Holloway plan held up THE REVIEW For study C / 7//97(.0
Hollowaylan held p up
by Scott Carlson
Improvements to Holloway avenue - "No Parking" signs and the road's six feet and a dividing wall would be put in
between McKnight road and Century narrowness contributes to slowing down at the point where the slope is cut down so
avenue,will probably not be made this speedy motorists. that it would act as separator for a service
year,if ever. Other citizens, however, expressed road that would be used by six residences.
At least that appears to be the prognosis support for the county plan,including its
as both North St.Paul and Maplewood provision to' cut down the road's Maplewood's portion of the project
have not resolved problems concerning dangerous slope in front of the junior high costs would be approximately$173,000.
funding for the project, which would school. They said the safety of the In North St. Paul, Manager Gerald
widen the road to 48 feet and push its children walking to school had to be taken Splinter had not developed a table of
alignment slightly south as it runs past into consideration. proposed assessments. Because of
Maplewood junior high school. Under the county's plan; which was negotiations concerning the use of state-
In an interview with the Review presented by Wayne Leonard, design aid funds,he ventured that the project
Monday, Maplewood City Manager engineer;the slope would be cut down by would not be undertaken this year.
Michael Miller said his city council has
cancelled any public hearings on the
matter until it knows whether more state
funding is possible.
"We're looking into state aids,"Miller
said.And that means the project is"up in
the air,"he added.
Maplewood Public Works Director
Robert Collier has suggested, in a
feasibility report, that Ramsey county
proceed with the design of Holloway
"subject to Maplewood endorsement of
Holloway avenue to a county state aid
highway."
BUT THE COUNTY HAS apparently
balked at the idea and wants Maplewood,
as well as North St.Paul,to give up some
of its mileage in municipal state aids in
return for turning Holloway over to it.
Miller said that Maplewood has other
road needs and will have to decide if they
want to give up that mileage in municipal
state aids.
In addition the city council, he now
says,wonders whether the improvement
will generate more traffic since it doesn't
appear "Larpenteur avenue will be
improved for years."
Some Holloway residents, at an in-
formational meeting last October, had
similar fears.They argued that at present