After spending the last few years doing its best to kill off businesses on University Avenue, the Met Council is embarking on yet another effort to get people to go to places most of them never went in the first place, and can’t get to now because of all the light rail construction.
Joe Doakes of Como Park responds:
I’d like to shop Central Corridor but I can’t get there – it’s torn up for miles, even cross streets – and will be until 2014. What’s the point of inviting customers to a destination they can’t get to?
Wonder who these ad people are related to, or who they knew to land this contract.
Joe Doakes
To be fair, you can get to these destinations. Although the route resembles something from the first Indiana Jones movie at times.
Yea, on Saturday, the Red Star’s little cover pages to some select ads, had a whole page dedicated to the businesses that are open on University Ave. Most of them of course, were Vietnamese merchants and there was a little blurb on each one, with their address. Then, in one of the most blatant lies printed that day, they proclaimed “and there is parking available!” Another left wing ministry of propaganda piece that, although they touted the businesses, failed to mention the economic impact that the construction of the light rail boondoggle has had on them!
Be of good cheer. The Hiawatha line is teeming with, um, er, new businesses, er, a lot of traffic backed up to allow the quarter-full choo-choo trains filled with hip urbanites, er, fledgling criminals, who have a means of conducting their business, er, larceny, between downtown venues and the MOA. The economic multiplier of having dual revenue streams for shoplifters simply cannot be calculated.