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You could order a car with no radio "radio delete option", and save a few bucks.  The wiring was there.  Then you could easily drop in an aftermarket whatever.

This was when car radios would get stolen left and right if you had a nice one.  Like a Blaupunkt with Quadraphonic Sound.  But what I needed was a curve ball.

A good curve ball is hard to find.

And that led to this: https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=5/39.1/-94.58.

Which is interesting and disturbing.  You can go to any of the cities shown and see how "redlining" played out in them.

THANK YOU!

This is what I was looking for the other day when I was talking about overlaying freeway routing with neighborhoods that were majority black and lacking in political clout. Couple the red-lined map of St. Paul with this map:



...and you'll see my point. The northern alternative involved going to the Great Northern Railway and hammering out a host of agreements with an entity that didn't give a damn what the MHD thought (and still doesn't). Why get in a hard negotiation with the railroads when you can either buy under an alias or condemn? Add in the removal of municipal veto over highway projects in 1959, and account for the nature of MHD at the time (a bunker full of white male engineers with a reputation for getting things done), it was no surprise that this was the route that was picked.

Further information about this section of I-94 can be found here: https://www.mnopedia.org/event/neighborhood-resistance-i-94-1953-1965

Interestingly enough, the two segments of urban freeway that MHD/MnDOT had the hardest time building were I-35E south from downtown St. Paul, and an expansion of US 12/Wayzata Blvd. west out of downtown Minneapolis. In a shocking development, both were through areas that were considered desirable in that mapping report.

You can't expand your base of support if you won't accept converts.

they didn't seem interested in expanding the base at that time

Mayor Jenny A. Durkan

&

governor Jay Inslee

F them, let them deal with it.  Maybe they won't be re-elected

won't happen in Texas

or most other red states and red cities

It's a small portion of Seattle, not some huge swath.  I think it's better to let them stew a few days.  Whoever "they" are will splinter into groups and fight among themselves and many will just go home.  Then I'd send police in at 3 AM retake the station and clear the crap out of the streets and the next morning arrest anyone obstructing traffic or spitting or jay walking.

If the objective is to reclaim control as efficiently and effectively as possible without a major fracas, I think my plan would be workable.  These little fiefdoms crop up every now and again, and one common feature is internal bickering.  Everyone has an idea and wants to be heard and no one wants to follow.

Maybe it's like a typical chat room.