Reddit is a social news and entertainment website where registered users submit content in the form of either a link or a text ("self") post. Ended up walking about 2 miles to get home. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. I know. I'll stay off the roads today.I’m pretty annoyed by this. They are annoying. Not a popular opinion but the best way to help neighborhoods like north minneapolis would be to flood them with cops so that people feel safe, small businesses move in, people get jobs in those businesses, and wealth goes up.Press J to jump to the feed.

But just because the local crime rate is high, it doesn't mean that a neighborhood is all bad. Other users then vote the submission "up" or "down", which is used to rank the post and determine its position on the site's pages and front page. But they also work. She covers kid-friendly attractions in Minneapolis and the Twin Cities region. 87.9k members in the Minneapolis community. With that being said, the reason you'll see more traffic is because yes, there is more people and now it's road construction season.

Not to mention that if no one is currently queued at a metered entrance ramp that is actively metering traffic, drivers take that as a sign that they don't need to stop.Our traffic is extremely tame compared to most other major cities. I’m Joe Schmidt, CEO of the largest online community dedicated to ending human trafficking and modern slavery, Freedom United. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. The menu reflects devotion to the Bold North. Absolutely crazy!yeah, my daughter walked home 5 miles from school after 3 buses in a row got stuck. I think if we just rely on infrastructure sometime in about 2030 it will be good, but how many deaths do we have to have in the short term that could be mitigated.That’s the thing about a police presence. A large proportion of crime in Minneapolis is concentrated in certain areas of the city. People don't really think of traffic enforcement as something that "keeps people safe", but I feel like the problem has gotten noticeably worse over the past few years and I feel like people have 100% caught on to the lack of enforcement. Archived. New development and community involvement in Phillips is reducing the overall crime rate and there are desirable new houses and popular, fashionable stores and restaurants in the area. Traffic in the cities does not compare. Midtown Minneapolis and the Phillips neighborhood also suffer from high crime rates.

Currently public safety is a bargaining chip that mpd uses to get more officers.Agreed. Every day, Jack Sandberg and thousands of other voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium. Archived. Minneapolis Tourism: Tripadvisor has 152,768 reviews of Minneapolis Hotels, Attractions, and Restaurants making it your best Minneapolis travel resource.

And yet the U of M didn't cancel any classes. Sat near the basilica for almost 40 minutes before I said fuck it and walked about 3 miles home. Read writing from Jack Sandberg on Medium. They aren't. Traffic and redlight cameras are very easy to cause more damage as the temptation to reduce the length of a yellow light by 1-2 seconds for a couple extra thousand dollars a week per light is too strong and creates dangerous environments. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcutsCookies help us deliver our Services. North Minneapolis has some of the highest crime areas, but also safe, quiet areas where families are taking advantage of lower house prices to move into their own home. Traffic is horrendous everywhere in the country during rush hour.Because instead of going one at a time through zipper merges, traffic grinds to a halt when someone either doesn't want to wait their turn or someone doesn't want to let any cars ahead of them. My advice is to just email the professor and tell them you cant make it, I suspect that students will vote with their feet. 2 years ago. The buses couldn't get through because there were so many cars stuck in the stop and when they did come they were jammed packed. ridiculous. • r/geopolitics

I still beat the bus, but this shit was horrible. For people serious about reducing police interaction with citizens over trivial matters, and wanting keep roads safe and reduce accidents and traffic blockage, we need to revisit traffic and red light cameras as a state. But it seems the problem here is a small number of people who have a reckless disregard for other people's safety, not a bunch of people who go 10 over or run lights .001 seconds too late, so I'm not sure how effective they'd be.No.