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VISION
We envision a green urban pathway that:
- Provides the anchor for a regional, sustainable transportation network; and
- Encourages healthy diverse communities to prosper, participate, and connect to the region.
Our Midtown Greenway will feature:
- All-season, fast, safe, and pleasant walking, biking and rolling; and
- Vibrant sustainable greenspaces and plazas with opportunities for public art; and
- Greenway edges that offer access, safety, new public parks, and economic opportunities; and
- Streetcar transit.
Together we will create a Greenway that improves our lives, our neighborhoods, our region, and the planet.
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The Coalition
We’re the grassroots nonprofit organization that advocated for the Midtown Greenway trails to be put in by public agencies. The Midtown Greenway wouldn’t be here without us. Selected other accomplishments:
NO BUSWAY. Kept a limited stop, rapid busway out of the Greenway by proposing electric streetcars instead.
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NEW ACCESS STAIRWAYS AND FRONT DOORS. Modified plans for about a dozen developments on land adjacent to the Greenway so they enhance the Greenway instead of wall it in. For example, the stairway behind the Midtown Sheraton Hotel is the result of our advocacy work, and the Midtown Lofts at Bryant Avenue would be separated from the Greenway by a roadway rather than a public walkway if not for us.
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GRACEFUL NEW TRAIL ENTRANCE RAMP. Along with Midtown Phillips, successfully advocated for a new trail entrance ramp at 10th Avenue connecting the Greenway to Midtown Exchange, Midtown Phillips, Stewart Park, Anderson Schools, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, and Powderhorn Park.
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SUSTAINABLE GARDENS. Installed and maintain gardens in the Greenway with volunteer power to showcase native plants, on site water management, and ecological sustainability. Along with public and private partners and many volunteers, we have also helped planted about 2,000 trees in the Greenway during eight annual arbor day events.
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OUTREACH. Engaged hundreds of Hispanic immigrants and Native people via our Green Way to Go program for group walks in the Greenway, resulting in many families now using the Greenway regularly on their own.
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SAFETY. Organize volunteers to sweep up broken glass daily, maintain communications with police and the City about trail and crime issues, advocate for improvements in traffic control devices at the trail’s at-grade crossings with roadways.
UPCOMING WORK. Starting in May 2008, we are taking advantage of our new location down the hall from the Freewheel Midtown Bike Center for new and continuing work, including:
NEW PARKS AND PLAZAS on land adjacent to the Greenway, part of a long-term community vision for more trail entrance ramps, greenspaces, public walkways along the street-level edge of the Greenway’s trench segment, and plazas at future trail transit stations. These open spaces will improve Greenway access, safety, and aesthetics.
BRIDGING THE MISSISSIPPI, infrastructure plan still unknown such as using the existing freight rail bridge for the trails to cross the River, or building a new bike/ped bridge instead of or in addition to the existing bridge freight rail bridge.
The Coalition has a seat on its board for each of the 17 neighborhoods along the Lake Street/Midtown Greenway Corridor, and four at-large seats. We have three full time staff people and, for the summer of 2008, two part-time interns. Our annual budget for 2008 is $338,476 including $20,000 in in-kind contributions. We are funded by individuals like you, and foundations and corporate giving programs. None of the dollars for trail construction or maintenance pass through our hands.
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