[Mpls] Taxpayer League flying their true colors.

[Chris Johnson]

The Minnesota Taxpayers League President David Strom says "transit just 
isn't that important to the smooth functioning of the Twin Cities 
transportation system" and "there just doesn't seem to be much 
difference in traffic when buses are running and when buses are not. 
The bus strike shows decisively that proponents of transit are simply 
not telling the truth when they say that transit ridership reduces 
congestion.  It simply doesn't."

All this from a Star Tribune article here:
http://www.startribune.com/stories/373/4648115.html
Well, I know my wife drove downtown today because the buses weren't 
running, otherwise she and my son would have been on the #4.  That's one 
more car than usual.

What's it like downtown?  Can you tell (yet) from traffic there is a strike?

If nothing else, at least we really know where the Taxpayers League 
really stands on an issue, possibly for the first time.

Chris Johnson
Fulton
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