light rail line on University Avenue, when right outside my back door,
was an existing transit ROW carrying a continuous flow of buses going
bing, bing, bing, one after another, to and from large parking lots
near the Fairgrounds and the U of M football stadium. It was Bill
Kahn who suggested: βWhy not just televise the Central Corridor
Coordinating Committee meetings?β
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At the time, I had never heard of the Central Corridor Coordinating
Committee. I followed Bill's advice, and after observing what I
thought looked like characters from a gangster movie, and with nothing
better to do, I continued blowing the dust off the old industrial
video gear I had laying around my apartment and hauling it to the
monthly meetings for another 2 years.
Reading Bill's obituary, I see we traveled a somewhat similar path.
We were both born in 1956, old enough to be baby boomers yet young
enough to have avoided the Vietnam draft. We also both dabbled in
urban studies at a public university. I ended up doing it partly out
of interest, and also out of necessity, taking advantage of some
work-study money for a program called Urban Corps. Maybe they had a
similar program in California β I don't know. Bill and I also
apparently shared an appreciation for the keen sense and companionship
of dogs. βIt's a dog's life.β
While we often disagreed, I think we shared a background that provided
an understanding of each other. I'll miss having someone who knew
what I was talking about when I mentioned the Central Corridor
Coordinating Committee.