It Was A Good Weekend To Be Out Of Town

[davidschroth]

They had I-35W closed down, again, this weekend.

In addition, the Triathlon made travel across the parkway virtually impossible from 0800 to 1300.

So, I delayed my errand to drewan and rvrjoe775 until after 1500. Well after 1500.

It took me between 45 minutes and an hour to travel from 32nd Street and Portland Ave to Columbus and 70-something in Richfield.

I've decided that it's a dry run for the conspiracy to ensure minimal disruption for the Rethuglican Convention (by bottling up potential protesters inside South Minneapolis where they won't be seen).

Meh.

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

I've been lucky the last two weekends in, first, noticing in advance that 35W would be closed, and then in avoiding plans that would badly conflict with that. I haven't had much trouble with redirected traffic, even. I did make one round trip to the airport, but it's a tossup whether I take 35W to 62 or 38th St. to 55 anyway, so I just stayed off the freeways.

Then that weekend when I can't head *west* (sometimes called the "Uptown Art Fair" or some such) is coming up. With so much of Lake St. torn up and the 35W situation, that should be a *great* weekend to spend at my computer.

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's getting to be darn near impossible to drive anywhere in southwest Minneapolis. Richard and I didn't go anywhere on Saturday that we couldn't get to by bike, and we still were slightly inconvenienced by all the displaced traffic on Bryant as we navigated our way to the Blackbird.

Judging from my short experiment with swimming in Lake Calhoun in the prodigious wind, most of those annoying Triathloners probably drowned, if that's any consolation.