Tag: Met Council
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Their Best Interests
A friend of the blog emails: North Minneapolis residents have voiced concern frequently about the Blue Line extension, which is supposed to “benefit them” per the elites who would never be caught dead on public transit, but in actuality will likely drive residents out to some new location so the elites have a new hipster…
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Stacked
Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds wasn’t writing about the Twin Cities’ Met Council in his USA Today piece, “Why Politicians Love Cities”. But in another sense, he was precisely writing about the Met Council. Reynolds cites urban theorist and “New Urbanism” critic Joel Kotkin’s new book (we’ve met Kotkin on this blog before) in getting to three reasons…
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Rewarding Failure
Not long before the 35W bridge collapsed, the bridge was inspected by an engineering company that gave the bridge – and its ailing gussets – a clean bill of heath. And we know how that turned out. Last week, a couple of cables on the Sabo pedestrian/bike bridge snapped, closing the bridge and, for several…