If you folks really are concerned about excessive spending on
transportation mega projects, take a look at the 12 billion or so
they're spending on our airport!
peace,
dyna
>Annie, I kind of get the feeling that you aren't interested
>in what people in the boonies have to say about Minneapolis
>politics - your line "We can't wait to hear about politics
>out in St.
>Michael as they apply to Minneapolis issues. :-)" seems to
>say it all! I hope I am misreading your intent.
>
>However, LRT is a statewide issue, not just a Minneapolis
>issue. And many of us want a multi-modal transportation
>system, we just believe that the financial investment stakes
>are higher than we have been led to believe. And the
>problem with the design on this bridge should not be blamed
>on a design-build process. Even though I think that process
>is dangerous for this project and others of this size, this
>was a miss by those who manage the project. The guidelines
>were clear and it was the Met Council's responsibility to
>meet the city's requirements. And to rationalize more
>spending from city tax dollars because "it was many people's
>fault" is beaucracy at it's worst. Minneapolis can't even
>pick up it's garbage or manage many basic services, yet it
>can find dollars to fix a Met Council problem. I guess some
>of us in the boonies just don't get it.
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
>Annie Young
>Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 3:08 PM
>To: Russell W Peterson; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: [Mpls] re: Lake St lrt bridge
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>
>Welcome back Russell. We can't wait to hear about politics
>out in St.
>Michael as they apply to Minneapolis issues. :-)
>Actually, I think the City Council did stickup for the
>neighbors. As
>Sheila states there were significant errors made by several
>players on this
>deal. And we have all learned lesons by this mistake.
>However, the City Council and especially councilmember
>Thurber did stand up
>for the citizens because if they hadn't "coughed up" the
>money we would be
>getting the wall because there were also incredible
>deadlines we were up
>against. I think the biggest problem is this whole theory
>about design and
>build. With the kinds of bidding processes and regulations
>about who can
>talk to who and what kinds of changes can and cannot be made
>we are very
>lucky we got to make the change.
>Ted Mondale also gets a hand in this - we stormed several of
>the Met
>Council meetings where there normally is not testimony or
>comments from the
>public and he did let us speak to the problems this would be
>created for
>the neighborhood.
>So when throwing stones we must be careful who they hit and
>this time you
>have missed the target. They did fight for us. And from my
>couch in
>Phillips this is a very rare treat and deserves a toast to
>the CC.
>Although Barrett Lane will have to sit in the other room at
>the celebration
>party - but he is accustomed to that.
>For now,
>Annie
>
>
>
>
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>individual.
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