looking for sunshine

So maybe all this complaining about what wrong with our streets just isn't going to cut it. As someone who lives on Cedar it tough to get past the traffic crabbies. But I think it's worth while to look at the good things that we want to accomplish. I don't mean to be all gloom and doom... There's a huge 'Daisies and Sunshine' aspect to this project... just look at what we want to create with all of this!

-Create and maintain thriving businesses and attract Restaraunts by:
making Cedar a destination (lets think 48th and Chicago.. Or heck, I'll go Grand Ave in St Paul)

• Reconnect Neighborhoods with the parks... safely

• Take full advantage of our transit options by making it feasible to walk, bike, bus or drive to your local businesses... also make it easier for people to get to our businesses.
  

• Make it safe to ride your bike up Cedar to the Midtown Farmers Market

• Create transit hubs with bike lockers (at business/transit nodes and parks?) to encourage and enable multi modal transit

• Establish safe parking zones for residents and businesses... so you don't have to worry about losing your mirror by parking in front of your house OR, you don't have to worry about your customers getting mashed on their way into your establishment

• Identify neighborhood commercial areas with signage and other hub-specific features
  

-Create a friendly and pleasant walking environment by:

• -Re-greening the treeless parts of Cedar

• -Create greening incentives for people to use their front yards (Rain Gardens, native prairie gardens, etc. etc.)

• improve the street-scape by landscaping new features like curb bump-outs to protect parking

Create Neighborhood identities with

• signage, banners, improved street lighting, streetscape themes (landscaping, bus stops etc)
  

Am I on the right track? All these things are VERY do-able, we just need a little more participation. I think we've covered most of these in our wish lists, but the bear repeating. I invite everyone to close their eyes and picture what they would like to see.

Anyone else have a utopian view they would like to share?