Secrets of the City

“How in the world a little culvert through this thing could cost $1.2 million is just beyond me,” he said. “I’m just troubled by the outlandish price that MnDOT’s contractor thinks they need to charge us to put a hole through the bridge.”

Yeah just give it enough time and negligence and there will be plenty of holes in it for free!

i’m usually a live-and-let-live kinda guy, but man, you’d have to be a completely oblivious, selfish dbag to want to live in those monster houses.

i don’t know know about edina but some of the ones in sw mpls are just appalling.

Re: Moose

Sad to hear, I LOVE moose. Jason, I appreciate stories such as this. Focus on the environment is an A+ in my book.

Perhaps I should go live in the woods and help the Moose out, hmm, right now that sounds way more appealing than my current nanotechnology research. I don’t think I am so “Driven to Discover” anymore (don’t tell CEO Bruininks).

I think that was an AP story, not Jason’s. Unless we’re giving him credit for anything put out by the organization now.

So the city council decided to spend a million bucks for a bike path that may or not be built?

Ward 11 Councilman Scott Benson, who voted against the resolution, said he has no confidence MnDOT will negotiate a reasonable price on behalf of the city.

I hope Benson was also screaming about that artsy fartsy bike bridge that goes over the electric choo choo. A million here, million there; who cares, it’s all just play money in Mpls.

Octaneboy:

Are you from Minneapolis? If not this does not concern you. Minneapolis will advance its pro-biking utopia agenda regardless of what suburban trolls think.

We are the #2 bike city in the nation after all.

You’d think the city was hardly a “pro-biking utopia” given the amount of complaining the cyclists do on this board, and the once-a-month practic of civil disobedience.

Nothing ever seems be enough.

The transportation veto was overridden, yay.

Are you from Minneapolis? If not this does not concern you. Minneapolis will advance its pro-biking utopia agenda regardless of what suburban trolls think.

We are the #2 bike city in the nation after all.

It would be nice if MPls paid their own way and the taxpayer did not have to subsidize a bike path but they do. You may not like “suburban trolls” but Guss what they pay more in taxes, thus they will comment on the mess mpls has made of their financial situation.

Nothing ever seems be enough.

Our bikes are fueled by the back breaking labor of oppressed anonymous commenters and the shattered dreams of a million MNspeak threads.

So; build me another bike path, damnit.

Our bikes are fueled by the back breaking labor of oppressed anonymous commenters and the shattered dreams of a million MNspeak threads.

I thought they could be powered solely by the owner’s sense of superiority and self-satisfaction.

The transportation veto was overridden, yay.

I’m actually surprised. I figured that the Repubs that voted with the DFL to pass it would fall in line on the veto vote. And it looks like the DFL managed to get their members that voted against it to vote for the override.

Bikes are great and everything and I think it’s wonderful that some people are able to bike to work. What I don’t like is the people who bike to work and their office does not have showers (like mine).

It’s great sitting in an 8am meeting, next to a guy with a sweat stain the size of small continent covering the back of his business shirt, reeking of BO, because he decided to bike to work on an 80 degree morning.

Either find a shower somewhere or get back in the car!

Are you from Minneapolis? If not this does not concern you. Minneapolis will advance its pro-biking utopia agenda regardless of what suburban trolls think.

It would be nice if MPls paid their own way and the taxpayer did not have to subsidize a bike path but they do. You may not like “suburban trolls” but Guss what they pay more in taxes, thus they will comment on the mess mpls has made of their financial situation.

I see it differently, It is the suburbs that rape the core cities financially.

Anyway, as a hard-core bike commuter I think Minneapolis proper is fairly decent for bicyclists. That doesn’t mean that it can’t get better. Biking in the suburbs is a different story due to all the impolite motorists there. But anyway, I wish for motorists and cyclists to live int peace!

I thought they could be powered solely by the owner’s sense of superiority and self-satisfaction

Heh-heh.

If you have more pedestrian-friendly crossings over the river, you attract more people to the river, and that improves the safety, and overall value of the area. The Twin Cities make such a big deal about being on the Mississippi River, yet the river is totally underappreciated and underutilized.
In Austin, TX, they have a pedestrian/bike path suspended right under the freeway, and a couple other bridges close by. You see thousands of people walking and biking around the river every day.

yet the river is totally underappreciated and underutilized.

One of the reasons I love going there.

In Mpls. it’s more about the lakes. Good place to see and be seen.

Are you from Minneapolis? If not this does not concern you.

Nice supression tactic – you still go to Macalester?

Hey – build a whole two-wheel paradise. What’s stopping you? It’s not like there’s $75 million of strorm sewer work that’s being ignored by those bold leaders at city hall. Build all the Bike Utopia you want. I don’t care.

What I care are Mpls problems don’t stop at the city limit. Like when your teacher pension fund is bankrupt and has to be absorbed into the state’s pension system. Like when your crime trickels over the borders.

Every day the real business of running a municipality plays second fiddle to the childlike whims of those who are ‘playing city’ from council’s chambers. No money to cut the grass, but we will show that travelling circus who loves animals more!

I saw a biker run a red light this morning in the fog and I thought, “That was dangerous.”

The bike haters are such rugged individuals when they pull out of their public parking spaces on the side of the street, and roll past an intersection every 1/16th of a mile.

hey octanejerk,

call me back when people in the suburbs stop using up and trashing so much of the city infrastructure and services without paying for it. come in to make money, shit around and cost the city a fortune, then go home. you assholes barely even spend any money here aside from parking (and then only sometimes) and the occasional ticket because you can’t be bothered to stop for red lights to let pedestrians cross, or, you know, SLOW THE FUCK DOWN.

PS Kevs,
one anecdote does not a trend make.