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2023-Apr-05, Wednesday 11:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerLocal news recently broadcast this story about a fire station in Minneapolis getting a 24-hour opioid addiction recovery office. What that article never mentions is "north Minneapolis", the adorable warzone where I live. I pass that Fire Station #14 every week when I walk to the asian grocery store near my house. I hope they can save lives with this effort.
Other good news of incoming resources (potentially, not established yet) is a massive commercial kitchen and food incubator, whatever that means, with the promoters promising 265 jobs here. That article includes better details, like my area having only 23% of residents with private vehicle transportation. I didn't realize that the number was so low here. It makes the food desert situation worse. According to Wikipedia, we were previously (and have now returned) to one of the largest food deserts in USA metropolitan areas, and it's been bad here for a long time.
While Minneapolis is experimenting with micro-routes in another north Minneapolis area (not my neighborhood), there's still nothing here where I need it. I saw the headline that Scotland is trying a fully self-driving bus route, and I immediately wanted the same thing available here. Minneapolis tried a self-driving shuttle in the downtown area a few years ago, but it never came back. Why not combine these ideas together here in north Minneapolis? Self-driving micro-route shuttle in the warzone? Pretty please? I've already emailed my city council member, and I posted to Reddit. I wonder if somehow we can make something happen to improve life here where it's so difficult.
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