THE LEFT’S BIG PLAN FOR THE TWIN CITIES

[Geee]

Powerline:

Regionalism” is the left’s big plan to make us live our lives in accordance with its vision rather than as we want to live it. This plan has made significant headway in San Francisco and Portland, Oregon. Now it is being sprung on the Twin Cities area.

 

Katherine Kersten has the details on the Metropolitan Council’s plans to remake the Twin Cities. In essence, The Council will do all it can to steer new jobs, homes, and economic development to areas within one half mile of major transportation stops. These stops will mostly be in the urban core and inner-ring suburbs.

 

In these favored areas, tax dollars will be lavished on high-density housing, bike and pedestrian amenities, and subsidized retail shops. The money thus lavished will come from people who live elsewhere.

 

The transportation needs of the rest of the metropolitan area will take a back seat. Money to improve highways and bridges will shrink. Congestion will grow and traffic safety will suffer.

 

Nor will this be the only punishment doled out to those who choose to live where leftists would prefer they don’t. Kersten notes that suburbs will pay an economic price, as the Council’s plan distorts the market through large tax subsidies designed to lure jobs and investments into high density areas.

[Valin]

@Geee

 

Who could possible have any problem with this?

 

that was then

 

2011

 

This is now.

 

Note: If you are planning to cross University Ave. (Photos)...pack a lunch.

[Geee]

Posted that just for you

[Valin]

Posted that just for you;)

I read it earlier today.

[nickydog]

I have to say, the traffic is terrible in Portland and the bridges look like heck. thebean knows how to scoot around on side streets, etc., to miss the traffic but it's tricky.

 

I didn't know businesses in the favored areas were subsidized. Interesting. And I have always been charmed by the local neighborhood feeling of central Portland areas. Hmmm.