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Dustin Petersen 
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Posted on: Sep. 24 2003,11:23 am |
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Maybe they should pay some outside contractors first to see if we want the study done. 
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knowledge
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Posted on: Sep. 24 2003,1:05 pm |
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There is no cost to the City to have this study done. The Minnesota Department of Transportation conducts the study and then determine what the appropriate speed limit is. MN/DOT is the only people that can change a speed limit.
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cpu_slave
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Posted on: Sep. 24 2003,1:22 pm |
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Then perhaps we need to pay for a study to see if we need to have this free study done?
Or should we first pay for a study to see if we need to pay for a study to see if we need to have this free one done?
Or should we first pay.......
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just looking
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Posted on: Sep. 25 2003,7:21 am |
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The comment that the study would cost more than two signs... 2 signs would be cheap but it would require the driving public to obey these signs, just because it says 45 mph doesn't mean that it will effectively slow down all of the drivers leaving a small percentage still going to fast for the conditions. Most of the local people are aware of the potential dangers of this intersection yet it hasn't slowed most of them down and I'm not sure that a sign would slow the few would be potential accident victims. Speed limits are for the most part recommendations of safe speeds we as drivers are responsible for not driving beyond the conditions, therefore if we know that it is not necessarily safe to be driving 55 in a certain area we should slow down and be more cautious of drivers that aren't as aware as we are.
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hoosier
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Posted on: Sep. 25 2003,9:00 am |
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Just Looking, great post. I used to drive semi and I can assure you that I have seen way more idiots driving cars than I have driving semis. I couldnt agree with you more, my god, you know you are driving by a truck stop, a very busy truck stop, dont you think that means that there might be a number of semis pulling in and out of there? For all you people that cry about all the close calls you have had out there, in my opinion, if you came that close to a semi, pulling out of Trails parking lot at a slow speed, you are the ones that are the problem, not the semi drivers. Next thing you know you guys will blame it on the train for almost getting hit on the railroad tracks. Learn to drive in the conditions you are in, when you drive by a large truck stop, consider that there just might be semis pulling in and out, believe me, its much easier for you to take defensive measures than it is the guy driving the big semi.
Edited by hoosier on Sep. 25 2003,9:02 am
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GEOKARJO
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Posted on: Sep. 25 2003,10:52 am |
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Hoosier Is right it take bit of time to get a fully load semi up to speed and reducing the spped limit there would help give the semi more time to get his rig ouit of the way of the idiot in the mazaradi wish it was.
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The Rocket
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Posted on: Mar. 21 2004,3:33 pm |
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Planning meeting the 25th for another truck stop on the north side of road across from Trails. Now we will have truck traffic entering and exiting on both sides. Hope they have good traffic control planned.
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rosebudinal
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Posted on: Mar. 21 2004,6:37 pm |
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Saw the bulldozers out there hidden amongst the trees that they will destroy. Kinda sad really. That area out there better get some lights, they needed it alot longer and alot more than where they put them by Home Depot. As a parent, it frightens me to have my child ride the bus. In the last few years, I have either taken the gravels roads or interstate. 46 is a DEATH TRAP!!!!!!! Can't count the amount of semis and vehicles that pull out front of me. Even the kid said " GEE, if they woulda just waited 5 seconds for you to pass, no one was behind you!!!!IT tells me alot that my child who doesn't yet drive has more common sense than the truckers out there.
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Montyman
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Posted on: Mar. 21 2004,7:49 pm |
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Every road is a death trap with people out there on cel phones!
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