28th and 34th Avenue South Lines and the Cedar Shuttle

This program details the route history of these lines in Minneapolis. The program was recorded from a Zoom presentation on January 17, 2022. Narrated by MSM member Brian Long.

[@perrythorvig6446]

To: Brian, Aaron and all the rest of you who have put this video series together. Your dedication to bringing to life the city's street car history is incredible. The videos are truly captivating. Thanks to all of you for this.
How were you able to identify all the intersections?
I am writing a book on the history of Minneapolis city planning. I can't put in all the street car history because the book would be a thousand pages long. However, just by viewing the Minnesota Streetcar Museum's video series, one would get a pretty good idea of how the city grew and what a "growth shaper" the street car system was.
I devote several pages in my book to the turmoil created by the proposed Bryant Avenue streetcar bridge over Minnehaha Creek in 1930. The city planning commission and park board wanted the Nicollet line extended to 56th and then west to serve the growing part of the city west of Lyndale. They didn't want to spoil the aesthetics of the gorge. The aldermen wanted it to cross over the creek gorge. The aldermen went ballistic just because the two other bodies were opposed. They even threatened to abolish the planning commission just because they gave a recommendation that the council didn't like.
There are many other instances like that in the history of city planning issues in Minneapolis.

[@MinnesotaStreetcarMuseum]

Thank you.

[@FishBone911]

So , it must have been the 34th Ave line that ran out to the Twin City Motor Speedway
for the few years of it's existence... seems funny that they didn't keep the tracks and run cars out to
Wold-Chamberlain Field.

[@kevinperrier7274]

At 16:38 into the video you can see the old store just north of 56th & 28th Ave. The building is still there.

[@mcc.o.4835]

Bring back the streetcars!