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Old 11-18-2010, 11:54 AM
 
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i really wanted to live in bloomington, edina or richfield. but i may have to expand my search. how bad is the commute during the winters from bk park to bloomington??
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Old 11-18-2010, 12:31 PM
 
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At certain times it can be very slow, what route will you take?

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Old 11-19-2010, 07:55 AM
 
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Depends where in Bloomington and where in BP. 100 takes about 16 minutes if you are ahead of traffic.
When it snows 100 is a parking lot at times.
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Old 11-19-2010, 08:00 AM
 
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My husband worked with a guy that drove from Brooklyn Park to Bloomington across from the airport. It was 45 minutes on a good day, 4 hours sometimes with snowfalls.
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Old 11-19-2010, 10:16 AM
 
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I dont like driving in heavy traffic,

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Old 11-19-2010, 12:18 PM
 
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My husband worked with a guy that drove from Brooklyn Park to Bloomington across from the airport. It was 45 minutes on a good day, 4 hours sometimes with snowfalls.
Just a little exaggeration...
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Old 11-19-2010, 01:07 PM
 
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Just a little exaggeration...
No, it really isn't. There were times it took him 4 hours to get home during a snowfall, and 45 minutes was his regular commute time each day, both ways.
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Old 11-19-2010, 06:59 PM
 
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My husband worked with a guy that drove from Brooklyn Park to Bloomington across from the airport. It was 45 minutes on a good day, 4 hours sometimes with snowfalls.
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Old 11-20-2010, 04:52 PM
 
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Anybody who took 4 hours to drive between Brooklyn Park and Bloomington took a 2 1/2 hour break somewhere for happy hour...

P.S. Don't tell his wife.
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Old 11-20-2010, 05:02 PM
 
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I have a co-worker who makes a similar commute from Brooklyn Park to Eagan and from what she's told me it doesn't sound that bad. I haven't made the specific commute from Brooklyn Park to Bloomington but I have taken Hwy 100 northbound and southbound during rushhour. It's usually congested like any other freeway but it doesn't get stop-and-go like the freeways going into and out of the two downtowns during rushhour or stretches like 494 from 77 to Hwy 100. According to googlemaps without traffic you'd be looking at about 30 minutes. During rush hour you can probably expect that commute to take around 45 minutes.

The 4 hour thing sounds like an extreme isolated incident, like a major accident completely closing the freeway or something. I don't think you have to worry about expecting that to happen more than once or twice in a decade.
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