Margaret: I received your e-mail request from Friday night regarding bridge rods when I arrived at the office this morning. This is the first request that I have found from you to me regarding this subject. The City of Minneapolis does not install rods under bridges. The State of Minnesota Department of Transportation has installed some rods under bridges in the past. The City has a contract with MNDot to maintain bridges, and part of this agreement, the City made repairs to the MNDoT bridge rods under two bridges over Interstate 94. Again, it is not the policy or practice of the City of Minneapolis to install rods under bridges. I hope this clarifies the situation. Erik Takeshita Senior Policy Aide Office of Mayor R.T. Rybak 350 S. 5th Street, Room 331 Minneapolis, MN 55415
Phone: (612) 673-2100 Fax: (612) 673-2305 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 9:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Takeshita, Erik M Subject: Erik Takeshita- the Mayor-Bridge Rods I have sent an e-mail to Erik Takeshita requesting that he or the mayor do a filmed interview with me about the bridge rods (transient barriers). However, if Erik or the Mayor do not want to do this with me, I would hope they would be willing to talk to the Skyway News, Southwest Journal or City Pages about their feelings, thoughts, about the bridge rods. As I have tried a few times to get a response from the Mayor's office about this subject with no response --zip, nada, nothing---- I have hope this may have changed given Erik's recent post to the list. So, I hope that either Erik or the Mayor responds to this post. ** Thankyou to the Skyway News and Southwest Journal for an excellent bit of reporting on the shelter beds*** Margaret Hastings-Mpls-Kingfield REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
