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been hit by a car coming down there when the bus stops and those kids get out. If that lane was spread out so they wouldn't have to be out in the street - even in the winter when it's plowed they don't plow that far and those kids are on the blacktop. MAYOR DEMOS: I feel if this is accepted it should be accepted hinging on the bicycle lanes - at least from C-2 north if not the entire route. COUNCILMAN HESS: I would like to see a bicycle path all the way up and I think that would slow down the traffic. MAYOR DEMOS: That's definitely slowed them on Hamline Avenue. COUNCILMAN GRAUEL: You're talking about a bicycle lane on both the east and west? MAYOR DEMOS: Just like on Hemline. They have it on one side. COUNCILMAN GRAUEL: Are you talking about bicycle paths on both sides? That doesn't allow for parking. MA YOR DEMOS: But I doubt tha t the y pa rk on there now. 'A1e have closed the hearing, but I will answer your question. MR. ROBERT THOMPSON: Would it be possible to ask the peo- ple in the room on Cleveland if they are for it. I don't know if that would affect you. MAYOR DEMOS: I will speak for myself. I think there would be an advantage to have that road paved with paths along the side for safety factors alone and I don't think you'd have the two lanes in each direction of traffic. I don't think that at all. Hamline was widened and paved and believe me, the traffic has not increased in speed. If anything, it has lowered. COUNCILMAN ANDERSON: I'll answer the question. I'm looking out in the audience and I know of some people personally that voted for me in the last election, but I look out here and I count heads and I get short. I get about 55 or 60 people out here. In the campaign last fall there were what - three thousand l7