Cupcake has been writing about chance meetings and bizarre happenings in or around the subway quite a bit recently. I'm sentimental for a city that is large enough to actually need a subway, but really what city logically needs underground transportation more urgently than Minneapolis? If you're thinking Toronto, they've already got it.
Hear me out:
We live in the coldest city in the United States.
The combined cities of Mpls/St Paul ranked 23 in the US in terms of land area in 1990, and that figure doesn't include the entire metro which I would unofficially label as the biggest urban sprawl disaster since Los Angeles. Seriously, almost 6000 square miles of Minnesota is wasted on places like Anoka & Woodbury.
Plus, riding on Subways is a lot of fun. Way more fun than taking a bus. Ever see a mime at a bus stop? Ever witness a suicide by bus? Does anyone ever have sex on an empty M22? Nah. But these things happen with subways.
Granted, one could argue that a subway plan would never get funding; seeing as how we are too cheap for light rail. But we have a reputation as a progressive kind of city. Can you think of a more progressive policy for the Mid-west? Really, it makes tons of sense.
Who's with me?
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