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| | Excitable Media: Tunnel: Lowry Hill Tunnel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | Minneapolis, true to its Greek root, offers a veritable catalogue of cataloguery, but to my mind the intersection of Lyndale and Hennipin Avenues seems to predate planning, their crossing unenviably misguided, always a traffic tangle of terrific proportion. |
 | | The modern challenges facing the transportation engineer shifted following the creation of the Interstate Highway System in the late 1960's, and gave a fresh twist to the Lowry Hill bottleneck, as Interstate 94 was slated to run right through the densely populated area. |
 | | And while superhighway construction uprooted a great many neighborhoods throughout the metro, the buildings of Lowry Hill were, and still are, one of the Twin Cities' richest collections of Victorian homes, grandiose churches, public parks, museums, and the like. |
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