That was \u00a0quote from a store owner in the Midway, on a Fox9 news piece on the closing of Porky’s this morning.<\/p>\n
Porky’s, a drive-in burger joint that’s operated in the Midway since 1953, is closing up because of the light rail. \u00a0How can you run a drive-in with no cars? \u00a0Traffic is a burgeoning nightmare on University, and it’s going to get worse for the next three years, and then…it’ll stay bad.<\/p>\n
The regional media, “urban studies” clacque and the DFL have been trying to paint a happy face on the destruction of the Midway – and the decay of the inner Twin Cities that it represents.<\/p>\n
More on that starting either later today or Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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