I laughed out loud when I read the Columbus Dispatch editorial stating that COTA buses are to blame for the 45 empty store fronts along High Street in downtown Columbus. The editorial states that, according to a downtown strategic plan endorsed last year by the Downtown Commission and Columbus City Council, bus traffic along High [...]
Archive for June, 2011
A Response to the Columbus Dispatch
Posted in Columbus, I'm Taking the Bus, See, Think, tagged CBus, Columbus City Council, downtown, Mike Coleman, public transit, sprawl, vacancy on June 11, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Lake Street
Posted in See, tagged 27th and Lake, 36th and Lake, Lake Street, Longfellow, Minneapolis, Minnehaha on June 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
As a child of two parents who grew up connected to Lake Street, so was I. It was the elastic band that stretched to accommodate life in South Minneapolis and it seemed as if life couldn’t have existed without it. For nineteen years my life Lake Street was a mainstay. Even the events leading up [...]