When the city is strapped and is cutting services, how can city officials possibly justify this nefarious expenditure, which benefits no one and only adds further misery to the lives of some of the most downtrodden people in our society? I am absolutely sickened and infuriated by this use of our tax dollars for what amounts to official oppression. So let me see--there is no money to keep shelters open during the summer rainy season but money for these steel rods? If the mayor or any city council members on this list can possibly justify this action, I invite them to do so on this list, for all to see.
Michelle Gross
Bryn Mawr
At 07:54 PM 7/17/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
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
