Art Show On Bike Route
A Park Board miscue
As originally published on Wed. July 23, 2008 as a letter to the editor in the Star Tribune
The installation of the Red Bull Illume photography exhibit on the Stone Arch Bridge was the Minneapolis Park Board's bonehead play of the year ("Park Board erred in closing bike route," July 20).
Pedestrians, dogs and bicyclists had to compete for extremely narrow passage lanes. And when one of the panes shattered, yellow police tape cordoned off 25 percent of the remaining space, making travel even more hazardous.
What a mess! We don't have enough wide open green space in our parks system for projects like this. I'd love to have heard the commissioners' arguments in favor of tying up the Stone Arch Bridge for more than 10 days in the middle of summer.
AMY ROSENTHAL, MINNEAPOLIS