A friend of this blog writes:
Hard to tell if this is supposed to be positive or negative publicity for the light rail- median income is down, we haven’t gentrified the area, and people and still mostly poor here. Was that the goal of the Green Line?
The goal of the Green Line was to make everything better. Everything.
You just gotta be patient.
No. Patienter.
(First, we gotta deal with the crime problem. Then comes the happiness and joy).
And of course, the proper way to deal with crime is to pass gun control legislation to get guns
out of the hands of racist Republicansoff the street, and spend hundreds of millions of dollars on community outreach programs.You got it all wrong! Reason Green line is not a resounding success, is because it is not joined to the Purple Line, and Mauve Line, and Plaid Line, and Teal Line, and…
The Green Line is neither a success or a learning experience for the area because the Met Council shoehorned the thing into the middle of the DFL Plantation. What it has done is not only limit movement North/South across University Ave, it’s also hampered movement East/West ALONG University Ave.