At 09:34 PM 3/22/01 -0800, Wizard wrote:
>However, I live on the corner and now I watch as people stopped for the light
>empty out all the garbage they have accumulated in their cars right in
front of
>my house. This is a definite change in the social behavior of Minneapolis. I
>miss that old habit of tidiness.
>WMarks, Central
I think Wizard is right, and it's a real change in the social behavior in
this city. I know we tend to see our youth through rose colored glasses,
but when I was little, my 8 block walk to school along 50th Street was not
the traffic and trash filled route that Tim Connolly described yesterday.
When I asked a kid who was throwing his trash in the street near my house
to pick it up, he told me he didn't have to because he lived in the city,
and this is what the city is like. Sad, but since he is growing up in a
city that IS dirty, why should he believe any differently?
Connected to this, can anyone explain to me just who is responsible for the
upkeep of bus shelters in Mpls? Is it the MTC, the city, or are we just
left hoping that someone will "adopt a shelter?" Can private individuals
(or groups of them) adopt a shelter?
Sara Strzok
Ward 11
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