Computer-generated aerial view of route included.
Currently, the plan is for the Southwest LRT (which has been rebranded as "the Green Line") to start in downtown Minneapolis at Target Field, proceed to the intersection of I-394 and Dunwoody Boulevard and then head west to Penn Avenue and then to Kenilworth, where it would stop at 21st and Thomas -- and wreak all kinds of expensive havoc, what with rerouting freight trains and so on.
Instead, how about having a streetcar line run from Dunwoody, down Hennepin Avenue -- or along the parallel Grand Avenue, take a right on Lake Street (with maybe a stop at Hennepin and Lake and perhaps points in between)? From there it could hit the next planned stop at West Lake and Chowen and continue on its merry way to Eden Prairie.
http://www.minnpost....idea-streetcars