Neal (got the spelling right this time) Simons says: "It seems that only part of my original posting (please see below) has been commented on and then only ineffectively. I should add that Commissioner McLaughlin, to my knowledge, has not indicated any change in his determination to trash Prospect Park by running a LRT route through our neighborhood."
Bil Kahn replies: The original post Simons keeps reposting is not worth much more of the list's time IMHO, but I would point out that, although there is ambivalence in the Prospect Park neighborhood about LRT alignments in our neighborhood, the feedback has been mostly positive at the events to solicit it of which I am aware. I haven't heard that many folks, save Simons and a few folks concerned about increased density and impacts on what is historically significant about our neighborhood, feel as strongly as Simons. I'd be pleased to hear more LRT opinions from Simons and other Prospect Park folks on the list. I used to feel that taking one of the two bus routes in the Minneapolis/St Paul area with the largest ridership and replacing it with LRT was a bad idea, but I've changed my mind given the Hiawatha LRT experience and my own experience in riding that bus route to work. For some of us, the issue goes further than getting from point A to point B moving us to solutions involving "transportation justice" or economic development or whatever you'd like to posit a good public transportation system brings to a metropolitan area. If LRT is trash, I say let's have some more integrated with all the other sustainable modes of transportation we can muster, trashy or not. I would even consider PRT if they ever got an impressive working pilot project going somewheres; considering the aesthetic arguments against it, it might be considered especially trashy. I'd like Peter McLaughlin to bring this LRT trash to my neighborhood if he can, but he can't do it alone. Bil (for my spelling errors) "Trash" Kahn piling up trash in Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact 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 Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
