[Mpls] City Pages Article entitled Bum-B-Gone

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This weeks City Pages has an article by Mike Mosedale entitled "Bum-b-Gone" about the "Transient Barriers " (steel rods) being installed under bridges to prevent people who are homelss a place to rest, get out of the rain.
    one quote from the article is the following:
    ...The DOT estimates it has spent approximately $12,000 installing the barriers under some 30 bridges in the metro area; while no cost estimates are available, the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have both followed MnDOT's lead and installed similar barriers under city-owned bridges...
    My hope that this could be prevented in Minneapolis was a bit late...
    Again, Mayor Rybak...do you have a response to this expensive effort to keep pushing people who are homeless away from the only refuge they can sometimes find?
      Margaret Hastings-Minneapolis-Kingfield