{"id":7872,"date":"2010-01-22T06:24:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T11:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7872"},"modified":"2010-01-22T08:03:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T13:03:17","slug":"around-the-mob-conservative-cravings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7872","title":{"rendered":"Around The MOB: Conservative Cravings"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was driving through my neighborhood the other day, and I came up to one of those stupid traffic roundabouts that appeared at intersections near key community activists’ houses over the past few years.\u00a0 Not just any activists, mind you – the ones that yap and howl the hardest over “traffic calming”.\u00a0 These are the people behind the latest plague of city-funded weirdness in the Midway; the enigmatic, oblique (“confusing”) signs, the placards begging people to drive slow, and finally, the stupid roundy-rounds.<\/p>\n

Now, this has been one of the worst winters on record for streets in Saint Paul.\u00a0 And I don’t know that anyone figured on that when they designed the stupid roundabouts; they’re very difficult for city plow trucks to plow around.\u00a0 So the roadway around the stupid roundabout is an impassible mass of rutted ice ridges radiating away from the stupid round-about; if you’re not bouncing around like a four-year-old that snuck some Red Bull, you’re sliding down the ice sideways directly at oncoming traffic.<\/p>\n

Suffice to say, I was not “calmed”.<\/p>\n

It was shortly after this incident that I checked out Conservative Cravings.<\/em><\/p>\n

We first met “Family of Five”, author of\u00a0 Conservative Cravings<\/a><\/em>, at last summer’s MOB party.\u00a0 He debuted the blog right around that time.<\/p>\n

And I’m happy to see Fo5 has been working away in the meantime.\u00a0 I liked this one<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Traffic calming is just another way of saying, quit driving through MY neighborhood.<\/p>\n

70th St in Edina has been there a long, long time. It’s main function is connect Hwy 100 to the Southdale Mall business district and then onto York Avenue. Since Hwy 100 is one of the oldest freeways in the metro area and Southdale Mall was the first indoor mall in the United States, I would venture to guess that the connection between these two points dates back before any of the current residents on 70th St. That would mean that when they purchased their home, they would have been aware of the purpose of the road, it’s speed limit (currently 30 mph) and all the surrounding development. Why buy a house on a street that does not fit your lifestyle and then try to get the city to work around your desires?<\/div>\n

So why has the use of 70th St been OK for the last say 40 years and now it needs changing? Squeaky wheels get the grease<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Conservative Cravings<\/em>.\u00a0 Not just a MOB member, but very timely.<\/p>\n

Check him out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was driving through my neighborhood the other day, and I came up to one of those stupid traffic roundabouts that appeared at intersections near key community activists’ houses over the past few years.\u00a0 Not just any activists, mind you – the ones that yap and howl the hardest over “traffic calming”.\u00a0 These are the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872","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=7872"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7877,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872\/revisions\/7877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}