City officials push for 'complete streets'

Published July 08 2010

A group of city officials and community leaders are asking residents and business owners to give their two cents on how to make downtown's intersections safer.

By: Jon Swedien, The Republican Eagle

Crossing Highway 61 in downtown Red Wing as a pedestrian can be a bit like playing the classic video game "Frogger" -- you try not to get squashed.

Now a group of city officials and community leaders, who are working to promote walking and biking, are asking residents and business owners to give their two cents on how to make downtown's intersections safer.

"Those intersections in our downtown have been a concern for a lot of people for a longtime," said Red Wing Planning Director Brian Peterson during a meeting held at City Hall Tuesday.

Tuesday's meeting was aimed at "kicking off" an effort to form conceptual ideas on ways to make downtown friendlier for walkers and bicyclists, Peterson said.

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