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From:DAVE O To:David Swearingen Subject:Snelling Avenue North and Cummings Lane Street Improvements Date:Friday, March 12, 2021 9:11:29 AM Caution: This email originated outside our organization; please use caution. Hi David, Kris, my wife, and I have lived on Cummings Lane since 1984. We are happy to hear that Old Snelling and Cummings Lane will be re-done next year. It really needs it. Kris and I even went to a city council meeting about 10 years ago to bring attention to this deterioration and point out the safety concerns. One issue that you should be aware of when you are designing Cummings Lane is that it is more than a residential, one block street. There is a group home-care business that has operated next door to us the whole time we have lived here. There are three buses that pick- up home-care residents in the morning and drop them off in the afternoon, Monday through Friday. There are 2-3 caregivers for two shifts that are also coming and going each day. All this additional traffic creates excessive wear to the street. You can see that the street has eroded from this traffic. I do not believe the street had been designed to handle this amount of traffic. It is also important that the east end of Cummins Lane is designed so the buses and other commercial vehicles can turn around at the end of the block. We prefer the Alternative 2 with trail. If the six safety features are implemented on Old Snelling, we think the walking trail on the west side of Old Snelling will be acceptable. The speed limit should be reduced to 30 MPH. Old Snelling from County Road E to Hwy 51 is used as a drag strip at the present time. Not safe! We also prefer the roundabout for the intersection at County Road E and Old Snelling. People have been making rolling right-hand turns here for years. Might as well make it a roundabout. Give us a call if you have any questions. Thank you for your time. Dave and Kris O'Brien 1377 Cummings Lane Arden Hills, MN 55112 651-636-1851