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... and here is the birthplace of the Excess Project.

 

OSM proposed the construction of two new ramps to serve the hospital (and also Honeywell, which along with the hospital helped form the Phillips Partnership):

 

Ramp 1 would be an exit ramp from the freeway to 28th Street, connecting directly to the then-Honeywell campus and to the hospital campus.

 

This is the reason why the 28th Street ramp has been included in all incarnations of the project, even though no neighborhood is in support of it, and many are in fact opposed to the existing, let alone additional, levels of traffic that a freeway ramp would bring to 28th Street, adjacent to apartment buildings, schools and parks.

 

Ramp 2 would be an entrance ramp providing direct connection from 26th Street to 35W southbound. This ramp, which was also brought forward as one of the "neighborhood alternatives" for the project, was eventually dropped as the geometrics of the 35W at this point made such an arrangement impossible.

 

It is interesting to note that although the stated goal of the project is "the revitalization of Lake Street" the proposed ramps are designed to actually remove people from any contact with Lake, and in fact require the condemnation and demolition of existing, viable homes and businesses in the area.