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David Greene

Minneapolis, MN
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2 years 41 weeks

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Posted on 02/05/13 at 11:10 pm in response to Dayton’s budget: Tom Bakk seeks out business leaders’ views

Because business doesn't have enough of a voice at the legislature?

Posted on 02/01/13 at 06:48 pm in response to A boom is underway in Uptown

> like their body-pierced and tattooed predecessors who pioneered Uptown

Umm...I live in the Wedge, where there are residents who have been here for 40, 50, 60, 70 years. It is folks like these who took a declining neighborhood and stopped the disinvestment.

Yes, the artists played a huge role too and created a very attractive vibe. Unfortunately, they are mostly gone now except for a great little strip along Lyndale. But I do enjoy hearing stories from my neighbors and...

Posted on 02/01/13 at 06:57 pm in response to A boom is underway in Uptown

MoZaic Phase I was totally screwed up. Let's place a Soviet-style concrete bunker of a building right behind a charming historic library building. It is almost the worst building in the city, certainly in the top two worst buildings built since 1980, just behind the Multifoods tower. Yes, even the Dome is better than this un-lipsticked pig.

It is a terrible, terrible building. Let's set aside the fact that it's a huge concrete cube in the middle of a lively commercial node next to...

Posted on 02/04/13 at 02:30 pm in response to A boom is underway in Uptown

It's simply not true that we need more parking in Uptown *right now.* Perhaps in a few years once the density has built up a bit more, but not right now. If one honestly surveys the landscape, one will see a sea of parking lots mostly unused. We can be more flexible with shared parking. We don't need to waste more valuable land for cars.

I'm a resident and I don't complain about parking. I think you'll hear complaints mostly from residents who choose not to provide their own...

Posted on 01/29/13 at 02:07 pm in response to Global warming: The idea that technology will save us is a pipe dream

Solar does not have to use food land. It is perfectly possible to power one's entire house using PVs on the roof. A number of our neighbors have already done it.

We need to get away from the idea of centralized energy production and look at distributed small-scale production using renewable methods.

Posted on 01/25/13 at 01:35 pm in response to Dayton offers game-changing transit plan

Greater MN has a *huge* unmet need for transit, something which Sen. Pederson is about to find out from his constituents.

So no, the sales tax should NOT go to roads. So much other money goes to roads already - gas taxes, property taxes, MVST, fees, on and on and on. No, what we need for roads is a fix-it-first policy rather that wasteful expansion projects like the St. Croix bridge. There is very little highway or freeway expansion needed within the metro area. What we need is to...

Posted on 01/25/13 at 01:38 pm in response to Dayton offers game-changing transit plan

Gateway is not LRT, it is BRT.

Posted on 01/26/13 at 01:22 am in response to Dayton offers game-changing transit plan

Southwest LRT is a *huge* opportunity gateway for North Minneapolis. It is much much much much more than a commuter line from the suburbs. It could not be built as LRT if there was not significant ridership in both directions.

Certainly we need more service in the urban areas, but simply dismissing all service to/from the suburbs is an injustice and a huge slap in the face to people we've cut off from jobs for decades.

Posted on 01/27/13 at 01:41 am in response to Dayton offers game-changing transit plan

North Minneapolis has been cut off. By freeways. For decades.

But no one bothers to remember the poor people.

The very fact that liberals talk about and dismiss the Southwest LRT as a "suburban commuter line" betrays a tragic bias.

Oh yes, by all means send the LRT through Uptown which ALREADY has some of the best transit service in the entire metro. Certainly we should spend $300 million extra to do that rather than actually serve transit-dependent populations in...

Posted on 01/28/13 at 01:37 pm in response to Dayton offers game-changing transit plan

Not NE. North. There is a huge difference.

The LRT serves more than Bryn Mawr. Harrison is on the alignment and realignment of bus transit and arterial BRT should be an effective way to get folks further north down to the stations.

Right now, there is no reasonable way to take a bus from the northside to the southwest suburbs. Filling that gap is way more important than making the lives of Uptown liberals marginally more comfortable.

Bottineau is also necessary. But...