Jared Chester wrote:
NIMBY:
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/13221169.htm
(The article is about proposed light rail down University Avenue and the
several business owners opposing it.)
From the article:
"Tom Stransky, who has owned Midway Books at Snelling and University avenues
for 25 years, said he has been battling light rail in one form or another most
of that time.
"It's like it's stacked against us,'' Stransky said. "It's been light rail,
light rail the whole time. I don't want to give up. I want to go down fighting.''"
Stransky is right about one thing: this metro area has been arguing about
light rail and other mass transit ideas for 25 years or more. Contrast that
with the city of Denver, which 25 years ago had zero discussion about light
rail. Likewise 20 years ago. Now the citizens of the Denver metro area, and
the Republican government, have seen the light.
Denver started way after the Twin Cities, and has now passed us by like we
were standing still, in implementing intelligent mass transit solutions. In a
2004 referendum, the taxpayers themselves voted a tax increase to "fast track"
construction of additional light rail lines.
Denver is not the only city doing this, either. Meanwhile, we dither
ourselves into congestion and economic decline.
--
Chris Johnson
Fulton
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