Keith Reitman says: Attention all Sayles Belton, Jackie and Joe, "Liberals",
God loves you but please listen to this MAN. He knows from where he is
speaking. Take a slow read. R.T. I hope you win, but below is a view from the
trenches, laid out for your review. This also may be the best reasons for NOT
electing a former "Safe-crime specialist"! Keith Reitman, Near North
In a message dated 10/30/01 9:05:34 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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<< Subj: [Mpls] Is Minneapolis Working?
Date: 10/30/01 9:05:34 AM Central Standard Time
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mel)
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Potpourri of Thoughts and Questions
By Mel Gregerson
Call 911 to report a drug dealer and they do not say we will be right over,
they ask how many.
WARNING do not call CCP SAFE about drug dealers! Their job is "public
relations." Southwest Journal reported that SAFE could only tell good
news and were stopped from giving warnings about criminals.
Does Minneapolis have a war on drugs? Or a war on landlords who provide
affordable housing?
To err is human, but to blame someone else is politics in Minneapolis.
A National Apartment Association survey just reported that operating costs
on subsidized apartments were $3.46 per sq. ft. compared to only $3.39 per
sq. ft. on private apartments. Why?
Is it fair that the idle-persons who pay 1/3 of their income to rent, live
better than the tax paying serfs who have to subsidize the other 2/3rds?
Why does Mpls. Public Housing have their own Police Force, which we pay for
and can't use? In addition we risk loss of our rental license if we ask
for help from the regular Police Dept., also paid for by us.
Someone recently had a nice single-family property seized from them at 1215
East 21st St. under the drug forfeiture law. Why hasn't Chicago
Crossings shopping center (The Drug Mall of America) been seized?
Is Mpls. working? For whom? Recently a police employee volunteered
to act as a decoy and posed as a drunk utilizing an old wheelchair.
Within a short time this decoy in a wheelchair had been mugged 6 times!
Why is this street disorder allowed to continue?
CCP SAFE (community crime prevention) continues to blame the buildings
abutting the crime scene for any and all disorder. Why?
City leaders need to begin using logic before all the responsible persons
who think within the zone of reason abandon our beautiful city.
A good place to start would be to reject all plans that would give
taxpayer subsides to developers who displace low and moderate-income
families. We should also reject the so-called "Smart Growth" plans that
reduce the present supply of affordable housing. Light rail is being
used as a development tool, so that politically connected developers can
make an easy profit which in turn they often share with the elected elite,
this allows the
Elected elite to be reelected and the process is repeated. (PRT) Personal
Rapid Transit is a state of art transportation system consisting of small
private elevated Cable cars that float on a cable just above regular
vehicle traffic.
Why is Light Rail being pushed when Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) is:
CHEAPER, (PRT) costs less than 9 million dollars per mile to build and
costs only 15 cents per mile to operate, compared to light rail which costs
40 million dollars per mile and costs 50 cents per passenger mile to
operate.
FASTER, maximum wait 3 minutes?.non stop service?no transfers
BETTER, operates 24 hours a day?.will not interfere with street traffic,
Does not require the sacrifice of a traffic lane?.uses less energy, the
electrical equivalent of 80 miles to the gallon.
SAFER, separated from traffic?.elevated so pedestrians and traffic
cannot
collide/no need to wait at empty stops/or the need to ride with strangers
Make up your own mind, vist?.http//www.cprt.org?.612-335-1025
Just deliver us safe streets and good schools, then development will take
place without any tax payer's subsidies.
COLUMNIST OBSERVATION:?. We must become far more aggressive and creative
in telling our story to the citizens of Minneapolis.
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