John Akre and I used to live in Phillips, and being surrounded by highways/busy
streets and sound barrier walls is absolutely a form of segregation and
discrimination. Most of those cars that raced through and around our neighborhood
belonged to people who did not live there. (Not an insignificant amount belonged to
suburban johns cruising for urban prostitutes--who, incidentally, didn't have cars.)It
also goes without saying that the two bus lines in the area, the 5 and the 21, are
often overcrowded, under-policed, frequently late, and sometimes downright miserable
to ride (especially while carrying groceries and/or children).
Okay, I'm going to say it--and everyone's going to laugh at the idea, but with the
amount of snow we get each year, and all the sanding and salting and shoveling and
plowing that results, couldn't Minneapolis use a SUBWAY? Or skyway-level monorails?
Considering that we can barely get it together for Light Rail Transit I'm not going to
wave this flag too emphatically, but has anyone besides John and I even thought of it?
After all, how much snow does Boston or New York get compared to us?
Kristine Harley
Carfree in Sheridan
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