December 2011
2 posts
Highway 3: It starts with a name
I strongly believe that many of the false perceptions of Northfield’s Highway 3 result from the name we currently use to describe it. Highway 3, it must be some long state route. Highway — that’s for driving fast.
The reality is that most state highways in Minnesota have local names. In Northfield, Highway 246 is known as W Woodley St and S Division St, and Highway 19 is known...
Highway 3: A problem of perception
I was having a conversation about speeding at Christmas dinner, when my brother remarked at the onerously slow speed limits on Highway 3 in Northfield, especially the 30 zone downtown. I responded that it is downtown, and that pedestrians need to be able to cross the roadway without freeway-speed traffic. He insisted that there weren’t even sidewalks: why would there be pedestrians?
There...