Minneapolis has big plans for transit, and Minneapolitans are part of them, whether they like it or not.
June 24, 2023 – 2:00 PM
In seven years, Minneapolis transportation planners want 60% of trips in the city taken on public transit, or made by biking, walking or rolling.
The effort to achieve that ambitious goal, which is laid out in the city’s Transportation Action Plan, began this month as the city partnered with marketing agency Vision Flourish to kick off the mode-shift campaign called “As You Go Minneapolis.”
“We want to shift people’s behavior and thinking about how to move about the city,” said Amy Barnstorff, a transportation planner in the city’s Public Works Department.
No word on how they plan to enforce compliance with this diktat.
It was about this time fifteen years ago that I was in the middle of my 11-month experiment at doing without a car.
Among my conclusions from that experiment:
I want to laugh when I see some of the lefties – especially the transit-oriented leftybloggers – yapping about running their lives on transit. I notice that not a single one of them seems to have kids; children are the big clinker in the “transit-oriented lifestyle”. If you have to get kids to an after-school event, it’s a major expedition; if you have to take one to urgent care, it’s either miserable (hauling sick kids on the bus is a rotten feeling, although I never had to do it) or expensive (cabs in the Twin Cities are nothing to write home about).
Just to run down the hunch, I checked out the transit planner featured in the article.
And sure enough, she punched all the expected tickets; her and her significant other apparently have a dog, but no children.
I’ve yet to meet anyone who can walk that particular walk without having a car for a backup.
Someone prove me wrong.
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