Flickr.com Photo Somebody recently emailed me a copy of a document about the North Minneapolis Bikeway/Greenway Alignment. Now, normally I like to use the Johnny Northside PDF support site for documents tinged with tasty controversy and skanky scandal, but I'm not opposed to simple information distribution...
So if you want a copy of this document for your very own, go to this link:
http://sites.google.com/site/johnnynorthsidesite/north-minneapolis-greenway
If you print out a hard copy, be sure to recycle.
On a side note, here...Grand Forks, North Dakota has a Greenway because, back in 2000, a certain ultra-conservative (expletive) city councilman was out of town on vacation and, oh gee, somehow the Greenway proposal ended up in front of the city council for a vote. (WHOOPS!!! How did that happen?!)
After debate, compromise and political manuevering, the Greenway passed by a single vote which was, by my reckoning, my vote.
I have always thought that if nothing else I did in Grand Forks had any meaning or lasting impact, that single vote would have been worth all my efforts. So just hearing the word "Greenway" always makes me feel happy. The folks from the neighborhood who have worked on this project for many years...they're doing a great job, and all their effort will pay off.
Johnny, I've supported the 26th Avenue Greenway. But from the looks of the document you posted, it look like it's morphing from a pleasant bike lane into a monster of urban destruction. It's obvious that building a bikeway has become an excuse to clear cut a several block wide swath along 26th, then gentrify it with "new urbanist" development that none of the current residents can afford to live in. Plain and simple, the 26th Avenue Greenway has become a destructive rather than constructive force, and must be stopped before thousands of working class Minneapolitans lose their affordable housing to the Greenway.
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