All posts in the topic Anti-bus signs in South Minneapolis
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- There are 2 posts — by 2 authors — in this topic.
- Latest post made by John Kelly at 2008 Nov 11 14:32 UTC
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| Julie Sandburg | 12ave.jpg | 2008 Nov 10 23:07 UTC |
Anybody know what's up with the copious amount of bright-yellow yard signs that
appear to be anti-public transit in South Minneapolis?
I live in the Hale-Page-Diamond Lake area, and these are showing up on 12th
Avenue, just south of Our Lady of Peace church. These are houses that otherwise
sport DFL election yard signs, so the anti-bus thing seems a bit... odd. I've
been searching around online and haven't found anything. On one block, all but
a few yards had a sign, and they are scattered through out other blocks. The
Route 14 bus runs down this street, but as someone who lives a few blocks East
and occasionally takes it to go to Target, I have no idea what anyone's problem
could be with it. I mean, it doesn't run nearly as often as it could.
If you have any info, I'd greatly appreciate it. I plan to get to the bottom of
this regardless, but wanted to see if I could learn what the premise for these
signs are before I went around knocking on doors. :)
I have also attached a camera-phone picture of the sign. I suppose the two
exclamation marks mean they are pretty serious about this, huh?
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I live on 11th avenue, so I got the people who were setting these up when I ran
our block party. They are concerned about the bus traffic down 12th, feeling
the road is too narrow to support bus traffic and want the extended 14 route
(the 14 only started going down past 54th this summer apparently?) pushed onto
Chicago instead. What they communicated to me was that they felt they did not
have any warning or opportunity to oppose the bus line being added before it
was. I got a packet on the doorstep from a neighbor on 12th, that fully laid
out their case, but I can't say I read through it too carefully. I do remember
the house where the information started from if you're interested in stopping
by and talking to them. Other than that, you know everything I know about it
now.
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