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Re: suggested
negatives about light rail, the same was said of the construction of the
Government Center at cost of about 55M in early 1970s.
Board chair and GC proponent, Richard O. Hansen, -whose 29 year
career as board member started with county functioning out of one
large room in basement of city hall- was hounded out of office
mainly over that and very dumb suggestions he got under the table payments on
the construction. Hansen said he was clean as the driven snow,
-probably was.
The
building at first stood alone away from the other high rises
and Hansen said that if just one new building went up next to the
GC, the resultant property tax would eventually pay
for it.
I expect that after a year or two of light rail operations the
negatives will become users and very much appreciative of it and the
overall story of the Light Rail will be similiar to the
GC.
And I expect
that the reported dull and urbane 29th street rail corridor will
eventually become the light rail line accross Minneapolis.
James Jacobsen // Whittier
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