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is a dangerous stretch of roadway. The shoulders are worthless for bike traffic. I think something should be done and they talked about having Langdon Lake as a recreational area once you block it off on the east side of what they call an indus- trial part - which is another subject - but they wanted that as a park area (inaudible) there were bicycle trails on Cleveland from C-2 and connected this Langdon Lake area I could see some (inaudible) of improving Cleveland. If we're improving it to make a four lane 50 mile an hour truck route I think I would be opposed to it because we don't need a 50 mile an hour truck route through a residential area. We moved to our area expecting to find a quiet residential area and you don't have it and with a four lane (inaudible). My wife has been down to Garrett asking about the truoks going north and there's nothing you can do. They won't go south to hit 35 north. They will not do that. It's easier to head just up north on Cleveland and so I'm afraid if you ever did make it a four lane or 52 feet wide you'd get all the truck traffic that we don't enjoy today. I don't think there's any way you will avoid it. In fact, in talking with the people at Garrett - if all the truckers are like Garrett - cooperation is not existent so unless we did something to make sure the truckers and traffic was slowed down to a pace we can live with - if that's not possible, I'm against. MRS. YVONNE BUCKLEY, 1866 West County Road C-2: This is just an aside, but I think it's important to know that the sheriff that's doing the monitoring on that road belonged to the Teamsters and (inaudible) and that's the end of that. MR. PAUL SCHWALBE, 2969 Cleveland: I'm paid by the mile so the quicker I get there the better. I don't work out of here. I work out of Burnsville. I don't think we need the road. The only thing it might do - it would be smoother, because I have one of those bumps in front of my house and every time one of those trucks hits it, it shakes the house. It might be a little quieter if they had better pavement, but as far as getting the truck traffic off - you could plow furrows in front of your house, but I'd still go that way because it's shorter. Maybe a little stricter enforeement so far as sp3ed might help. It's (inaudible) but they go 45 or 50. MAYOR DEMOS: ~lliy does St. Paul have permission to regulate truck traffic (inaudible)? 13