As the Southwest News reports, city governments in the southwest metro are getting ready to try to deal with the plague that no DFL-dominated city government dare name; crime descending upon them via the light rail.
The article explains the basics.
I thought this bit here was particularly interesting (and I’ve added all emphasis):
Metro Transit communications and outreach manager Sam O’Connell echoed [Metropolitan Council Chair Charlie] Zelle’s sentiment that the increased disturbances on public transit are signs that the light rail, now 16 years old, has become a part of the community fabric. Addressing these problems will take a multi-pronged approach, she added.
“Part of this is just a maturation of the system,” she said. “I don’t know if there’s ever a silver bullet that will reduce all of this altogether.”
Catch that?
Crime, vandalism, blight, fear, predation – they aren’t signs of decay anymore.
They’re signs of “maturation” into the “community fabric”.
In some future edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, this quote may wind up as part of the definition of the phrase “Racism (classism, whatever) of low expectations”.
And probably of “moving the goalposts”.
How many Minneapolis voters believe that they need a “Metro Transit communications and outreach manager”?
The guy has got to be making 6 figures.
MP – why should voters matter? Metro transit is ruled by the Met Council, which has nothing to do with vote
Metro transit is ruled by the Met Council, which has nothing to do with vote
Shorter Met Council: “Would you like your sh*t sandwich grilled or fried?”
A new phrase will soon be entering into North Minneapolis vocabularies once the line extends to Eden Prairie: “Target-rich environment.”
I’m sure that Minneapolis and the rogue surrogate, the Met Council, still won’t give up their wet dreams of city wide choo choo trains, but strangely, cities further along in the process, may be starting to wise up.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-did-america-give-up-on-mass-transit-don-t-blame-cars?utm_source=pocket-newtab
If you are going to do mass transit, buses make much more sense, economically, than trains do. They use existing roads, their routes can be changed, and bus routes can be changed and the number of buses can be scaled to demand.
But if you want to make money with graft, or dictate where commercial and residential take place, then you want trains.
Mammuthus Primigenius on February 28, 2020 at 3:20 pm
Total agreement. Wish I’d written it myself
There is not 1 light rail system in the US that is not a hotbed of violence and crime. And on every, single one of those systems, the perpetrators are the same demographic: Uneducated, feral Negroes. Y’all got any of those?
They run wild because the Caucasian leftists that run the show will never, ever take the steps necessary to stop them…just look at what’s happening to Bloomberg because he had the temerity to target the Negro criminals who were responsible for 90% of the violent crime in NYC.
The Minnesota choo choo IS embedded in the community now, and y’all will not only like it, you’ll pay through the nose to support it.
Its like a public school district that has the entire metro area as its tax base.
Here’s a taste of what’s coming:
https://abc7news.com/society/bart-janitor-makes-$276k-with-overtime-pay/1584858/
The tragedy of mass transit, IMO, is that just as smaller internal combustion engines made smaller carriages more practical, mass transit doubled down on large carriages resembling those powered by the old steam engine. Hence they created the very conditions that created mass transit’s demise.
Notice that the article boss references laments mostly one thing; that not enough subsidies go to transit. Hint; if you’ve got a viable product, you don’t need subsidies. Somebody needs to take a serious look at ridership and rethink the 40-50 passenger bus and the 200 passenger “light” rail train.
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increased disturbances on public transit are signs that the light rail, now 16 years old, has become a part of the community fabric.
I literally GOL (guffawed out loud).