northeast

[Slig]

Originally Posted by nick is rulz

sure there would. Most of the exiting/entering the city traffic and congestion tends to be where 94 meets Lyndale/Hennepin and 35W. If you're in NE its easy enough to hop on Lowry, follow it to Washington, head up to Dowling and follow 94 to 252.

If you're in uptown you just take Hennepin up a few blocks and you can hop on 94 or 394 which you can take to HWY 100 or 169. From my experiences getting to Brooklyn Park from those areas takes just about the same amount of time.

[nick is rulz]

I guess it depends on the time of the commute. I lived in Uptown and commuted to the Champlin/Brooklyn Park area and then moved to Harrison and the commute time was about 10 minutes less because of the Hennepin/Lyndale bottlenecks.

[Slig]

I suppose that area could get conjested during rush hour although I more vividly remember the bottleneck before the Lowry tunnel. My commute to work was taking 394 to Plymouth and I rarely got stuck in traffic. You're probably right that coming from Northeast it's probably a little shorter....not a huge difference though.

[wide_ride]

well my whole deal is that i want to cut out driving my car and use public transportation almost exclusively. i checked out metrotransit's online trip planner and by bus, uptown and northeast are definitely pretty close time-wise, probably too close to matter actually. from a hypothetical location in uptown (lyndale & 26th) to NHCC is 1:46:00, and from hypothetical lowry & university to NHCC is 1:41:00. thats a pretty damn long bus ride back and forth either way...i could probably bike there from northeast in half the time

[p_U_c_K]

i grew up northeast, parents still live there, they live in a really nice neighborhood, its nicest probably east of Johnson street (by like windom park up to waite park), you can ride your bike walk around etc, no problem. Plus, theres you can pretty much get anywhere in literally 5 minutes (by anywhere i mean a target, walmart, every chain restaurant and fast food dump, grocery stores) so biking is ideal