[Mpls] PRT and Bile

[Jim Bernstein]

Council Member Zimmerman DOES NOT deserve this kind of bile!  

While one not agree with him on his support of PRT, linking him with
Rep. Mark Olson and Sen. Michelle Bachmann (both hard shell
conservatives) is grossly unfair.  

I am not a Green but I can say that the differences between Republican
right wingers like Rep. Olson and Sen. Bachmann and Council Member
Zimmerman are much greater than the distance between Minneapolis and
Tokyo!  

To claim that because they happen to agree on this one issue that
Council Member Zimmerman is "in bed" with the likes of Rep. Olson and
Sen.Bachmann is idiotic.  

It is not uncommon at all for elected officials and people in public
life who are generally opposites in their politics and ideas about
public policy to find themselves on the same side of the fence from time
to time.  Both Washington and St. Paul are rife with examples of
legislators who despite their deep divides on most issues find
themselves working together to solve a common problem.  

In fact, good public servants ought to have the nerve to step forward
together when they see an opportunity to make the lives of people better
-even though they may usually be on opposite sides of the line.  One
could actually applaud Rep. Olson and Sen. Bachmann for departing from
the usual Republican orthodoxy of "build more roads, the hell with
public transit".

Many who count themselves firmly in the liberal camp are interested in
new transit technologies like PRT.  Busses are not necessarily the only
solution for urban transportation.

Criticize PRT all you want, but smearing Council Member Zimmerman
because a couple of Republican legislators also like PRT is despicable.
Mr.Ken Avidor deserves a round of loud boos for this one!  

Jim Bernstein
Fulton

-----Original Message-----
From: mpls-bounces at mnforum.org [mailto:mpls-bounces at mnforum.org] On
Behalf Of Russell Raczkowski
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 8:48 AM
To: mpls at mnforum.org
Subject: [Mpls] Streamlined PRT information and unapologetic bile.

Ken Avidor has added a simplified list of links to his information
packed "PRT is a 
Joke" website.  It's a nice corrective to the PRT puffery emanating from
the 
Minneapolis city hall.

It can be found at

http://www.roadkillbill.com/PRTlinks.html

In a more familiar and reprehensible vein, Avidor tells the tale of
republigreen love in 
the PRT luv pod (complete with pictures) at

http://www.roadkillbill.com/PRT-LUVPOD%20-2.html

Enjoy.

Russell Raczkowski
Bancroft






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