{"id":85436,"date":"2023-06-26T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85436"},"modified":"2023-06-26T11:10:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T16:10:32","slug":"seven-year-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85436","title":{"rendered":"Seven Year Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Minneapolis has big plans for transit, and Minneapolitans are part of them<\/a>, whether they like it or not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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June 24, 2023 – 2:00 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seven years, Minneapolis transportation planners want 60% of trips in the city taken on public transit, or made by biking, walking or rolling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effort to achieve that ambitious goal, which is laid out in the city’s Transportation Action Plan<\/a>, began this month as the city partnered with marketing agency Vision Flourish to kick off the mode-shift campaign called “As You Go Minneapolis.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

No word on how they plan to enforce compliance with this diktat. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was about this time fifteen years ago <\/a>that I was in the middle of my 11-month experiment at doing without a car. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among my conclusions from that experiment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I want to laugh when I see some of the lefties \u2013 especially the transit-oriented leftybloggers \u2013 yapping about running their lives on transit.  I notice that not a single one of them seems to have kids<\/em>; children are the big clinker in the \u201ctransit-oriented lifestyle\u201d.  If you have to get kids to an after-school event, it\u2019s a major expedition; if you have to take one to urgent care, it\u2019s 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). <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Just to run down the hunch, I checked out the transit planner featured in the article. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And sure enough, she punched all the expected tickets; her and her significant other apparently have a dog, but no children. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve yet to meet anyone who can walk that particular walk without having a car for a backup. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Someone prove me wrong. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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