{"id":72208,"date":"2020-06-24T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72208"},"modified":"2020-06-23T19:57:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T00:57:54","slug":"transit-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72208","title":{"rendered":"Transit Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today is the sixteenth anniversary of the opening of the Metro Transit Blue Line – the beginning (or re-beginning) of light rail transit in the Twin Cities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So on this anniversary, let us remember the people who gave their lives – unwillingly and probably unwittingliy – to further Big Minnesota Left’s obsession with feeling like a Big City. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Blue Line has claimed 15 lives<\/a> – eight pedestrians, three bikers, a man in a wheelchair, and three people in cars. There was also a stabbing death<\/a> this past winter on the Blue Line, and two more murders at stations along the line. That’s an average of just one death per year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Green Line has taken eight victims in only five years<\/a> – the first just six weeks after the train started operating, mostly pedestrians trying to navigate the badly-designed street-level crossings. The most recent was less than a year ago. j<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Northstar line has five fatalities so far<\/a>, the latest just last winter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s 29 dead, so far. 29 lives sacrificed so that the Met Council, the various governments, and other people who love to play with the dials and levers of government can feel like they’re “running” a big city with all the trimmings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s take a moment today to remember these innocent victims of government megalomania. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is the sixteenth anniversary of the opening of the Metro Transit Blue Line – the beginning (or re-beginning) of light rail transit in the Twin Cities. So on this anniversary, let us remember the people who gave their lives – unwillingly and probably unwittingliy – to further Big Minnesota Left’s obsession with feeling like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trains-and-automobiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72208"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74529,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72208\/revisions\/74529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}