Greg Abbot wrote: "If this is the sort of innuendo upon which the opponents of the Access Project are forced to rely, it is no wonder their opposition to date has been so ineffective."
One of the arguments against the Access Project has been that it is an insider deal made between powerful business (including non-profit) and governmental interests and that the "public" process is a thinly disguised attempt to "put lipstick on the pig," as Dean Zimmermann once said. I have yet to see any compelling evidence otherwise--except innuendo. I ask, what are the big financial rewards I am to receive from my oppostion to the Access project? Another argument made against this project--my personal favorite--is that the Access Project is largely an investment in auto-based infrastructure (transit and mitigation crumbs notwithstanding) at the precise moment when the end of the oil economy is clearly on the horizon. It's kind of like starting a business renting video tapes and VCRs today, in other words. $150 million plus (wasn't that up to $175 million at one point?) investing in a dirty,decaying technology in an attempt to solve problems caused by that very dirty, decaying technology? Kind of like drinking yourself into sobriety, don't you think? There are other arguments against the Access Project: health effects, destruction of local small business, demolition of housing, corporate control of local economies, not to mention the ol' bait and switch. All these arguments have been made on this list and on the STRIDE website. They are NOT innuendo but rather direct challenges to how "business" has too often done in this city, literally for decades. As for Scott Person's mistake. . . . The joke's on us all. Russell Raczkowski Bancroft 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
