Does anyone know what's up with the Jersey barriers and fences keeping bicyclists and pedestrians (as well as motorists who have always been blocked) from getting through at the end of the property at what would be the end of Mifflin Street onto the Yahara River path? In a seemingly passive-aggressive move some entity has consistently placed huge boulders to block passage by bicycles. As we moved the easier ones away, they would be put back in place.
So, what the hell? This building houses a lot of state employees. Shouldn't they have access to the property from all directions? There is a parking lot across Dickinson from the building that is blocked with Jersey barriers. Is this transportational discrimination? A sign at the entrance at Dickinson says it is a "private space" and bicyclists should go use the bike route. Unstated is that the bike "route" goes up the hill to Dayton and back down to Thornton. I have used it several times when I didn't feel like going around the boulders and found it to be very icy at times in the winter. Why is this a "private space?" Why hasn't the city, over all the years, managed to get an easement? Why can't we use eminent domain to seize this property from the multimillionaires, Jerome and Carol Mullins? And why is the assessment on this entire property only $8000? The land itself is assessed at $1,862,000, a number that didn't change from 2014 to 2015. Has some corrupt city bigwig hatched some sweet deal with these notorious slumlords? I remember some chatter on bikies about ten years ago when I asked why this wasn't marked as the bike path, instead of being directed to use that idiotic detour on Dickinson and Dayton, but can't remember the upshot of it . . . . sort of forgot as long as we could still navigate around Mullins' boulders. But these Jersey barriers are going a little far. Why is the city not doing something about this? If someone knows more (or if this has already been on bikies, and I missed it), let me know what I missed. Thanks. *I realize Mifflin starts up again after First St., but I meant this section of Mifflin. -- "If we continue to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their children or their children's children are going to look back on us--on you and me--and say to themselves, 'My God, what kind of monsters were these people?'" --Daniel Quinn
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