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Also, as a daily bus rider, I wish they'd move the buses from the mall because the buses are painfully slow on the mall. It's quicker to walk from Nicollet and 7th to Hennepin and take the 6 than to take the 17 from Nicollet and 7th going to uptown.

Then maybe we need to invest in higher capacity transit infrastructure

Definitely nothing creepy about standing on the sidewalk taking pictures of girls you don't know in bikinis and posting them to the internets

Free parking? You dont think someone pays for that parking? If I park on my property, I PAID for that property and am paying taxes on that property. Same goes for any store. The city or state and for damn sure, not your taxes, are paying for that parking. If a city pays a company to move to their c...

. Criticizing subsidies for the pure fact that they're subsidies is hypocritical and, frankly, illiberal.

Subsidizing one lifestyle over another seems pretty illiberal to me. Let alone subsidizing the one that is less sustainable and more damaging to the environment and public health

I don't know the exact ratio. Just illustrating the point. Do you dispute those things all favor the suburbs?

Homeownership is higher in the suburbs than the city. Suburbanites drive more than city dwellers. Free parking is much more abundant in the suburbs than the city. These all are fairly obvious. A $10 subsidy to live in the suburbs with a $1 subsidy in the city is no different than a $9 tax on the city.

Transit subsidies don't come anywhere close to making up for all the ways society subsidizes the suburbs. Sprawling highways and free parking are only a fraction of it. The home mortgage interest deduction, foreign wars to keep gas cheap, municipalities paying companies to move to the burbs, failure...

Saying people should have to pay the full costs of their decisions is not punishing them. Subsidizing their decisions so they don't have to pay their true cost punishes people who don't make that decision yet still end up footing the bill.

Although make it too expensive to visit the city and I wonder how many people would find a job out in the suburbs rather than pay to drive in or move closer.

Make suburbanites pay the true costs of living in sprawl, and I wonder how many people would continue to do so

Also, less parking than 1.5 stalls / unit would make me happier

Working to try and change the minds of people whose minds are already made up is a waste of time. Let's worry about making it easy enough for people who want to bike but can't because of lack of infrastructure before we worry about converting the people who worship cars as cultural/status icons. So...

As far as serving density vs. running through a park, Bottineau is unarguably "less bad" than Southwest in that regard.

In before Matt's pic of cornfields

"Let's dial back the sarcasm"

::rolls eyes

3C hasn't lost until there's shovels in the ground! (joking . . . mostly)

It would fit right in over in St. Paul though

Working to try and change the minds of people whose minds are already made up is a waste of time. Let's worry about making it easy enough for people who want to bike but can't because of lack of infrastructure before we worry about converting the people who worship cars as cultural/status icons.

People who "just want a car" should be living in the suburbs not the central city

It has to even out some how.

No, it doesn't.

You dont just toll roads because your personal opinion doesn't want people driving.

You're right. You toll roads because sprawled infrastructure is not sustainable and because cars are harmful to the environment and public health.

I really don't want to end up like the eastern states with toll rodes everywhere

You don't have to pay any tolls if you don't drive