Comments on: Politics in Minnesota 02.22.08

By: jane mcclure

jane mcclure — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:49:06 +0000

well, there were some strange ones — I recall someone wanting to use combinations of the county names, like ram-wash. That was kind of a huh? It sounds like what you do with your livestock at the county fair.
there was a Washington County commissioner who wanted to call the rail line the Cheesehead Express, in honor of a link to Wisconsin.
There were also jokes about the placement in the freeway trench years ago, so it was the Not Quite Underground or the Trench Line at the some of the St. Paul neighborhood meetings.
There are about 20 distinctly named neighborhoods all along the St. Paul section alone so I don’t know which neighborhood name you’d pick. a group called Big Stick Productions did a map several years ago with all of the Minneapolis and St. Paul neighborhood names so I’d have to dig that out. Frogtown IS a great name but I don’t know how you’d single them out and not hurt feelings in Aurora-St. Anthony, Iris Park, East Midway, South St. Anthony Park, Capitol Heights, Howard Park, etc.

By: JACC

JACC — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:35:07 +0000

Thanks Jane, very informative. Now I’m curious so feel free to share some of those strange names.

By: jane mcclure

jane mcclure — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:02:04 +0000

I’ve written about Central Corridor and its various iterations for more than two decades for the various St. Paul neighborhood newspapers and for suburban newspapers. The naming decision was made by Ramsey County, not Met Council, so I found it curious that no one from the county recounted that for the article.
Historic note: It WAS the Midway Corridor in the 1980s. I still like that name.
People also forget that for many years, the plan was to run the line down the center of I-94, with the possibility of extending east into Washington County and Wisconsin. That, too has naming possibilities — some stranger than others.

By: morgonmae

morgonmae — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:29:43 +0000

Gee, I’d leave this comment on the original article, but it would just get buried under the regressive babbling of a hundred anarchists from North Oaks wondering why everyone doesn’t just get a nice reliable Buick.

How about the Core?

By: justpbob

justpbob — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:59:10 +0000

Better yet — The David Strom Special.

Bruhahahahahahaha!

By: justpbob

justpbob — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:57:40 +0000

There are a lot of them, aren't there, kev? I always watch very carefully -- some will just step right into the road without warning.

Once, near University and Victoria, I saw a deer running across the road. It was about 6:30 a.m.

By: kwatt

kwatt — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:44:06 +0000

Given my two plus years riding the bus down University, I’d say the jaywalkers are well adept enough at dodging vehicles that they will easily adapt to dodging The Frogger.

By: Octaneboy

Octaneboy — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:52:35 +0000

Let's face it; given either the current price or the eventual price, how can you NOT call it the Gold Line?

By: justpbob

justpbob — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:12:20 +0000

I recommend that we name the train after Fredrick L. McGhee, lawyer and activist from Saint Paul.

By: mazasapa

mazasapa — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:50:59 +0000

With people trying to cross university without getting killed by one, perhaps Frogger is the best name. heh