File photo by Jim Gehrz (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Monday roundup: Bridge collapse survivors speak, $9 per 311 call, housing lawsuit 20 years later
City news roundup for Monday, July 30
By James Shiffer
July 30, 2012 at 3:41PM
35W bridge collapse, five years later:
- After the fall, healing and rebirth: In the years since the bridge collapsed on Aug. 1, 2007, killing 13 people and injuring 145 others, survivors of the rush-hour disaster have struggled to rebound. Some still battle physical limitations. Others, emotional demons. (Pam Louwagie, video by Jenni Pinkley and Matt Gillmer)
- Check out the updated 13 Seconds in August interactive project, now updated with the identities of every motorist on the bridge. (Dave Braunger, Jane Friedmann)
- Bridge safety still lacks urgency: Arguments in favor of greater investment after the 35W bridge disaster never gained national traction. (Kevin Diaz)
311 - Best run but most costly? Each report of potholes, overgrown lawns, busted stoplights and other issues to Minneapolis 311 cost city taxpayers $9.15 last year, a per-contact expense that surpasses most cities across the country. (Eric Roper)
An unfinished project on the North Side: Twenty years after Legal Aid filed a landmark lawsuit to reshape four aging North Side housing projects, the landscape has changed substantially. But a significant portion of the promised redevelopment remains unfulfilled, and there's no timetable for completing it. Nor has anyone studied how the low-income people who were supposed to benefit made out once they were resettled. (Steve Brandt)
Posh Park Avenue back in the spotlight: The history of Minneapolis' Park Avenue -- and the movers and shakers who built their now-faded mansions there -- will be explored in a popular walking tour. (Lynn Underwood)
More are reaching out to homeless youths: A "host home" program is among a mini-boom in services underway for Minnesota's homeless youth, an often invisible segment of the homeless population that continues to grow. (Jean Hopfensperger)
Downtown parade salutes post-9/11 veterans (Kelly Smith)
County to pitch in $1 million for city traffic light work (Kevin Duchschere)
On the street where a child died, residents rally: Terrell Mayes, slain by a bullet late last year, would have been four years old Sunday. (Jim Adams)
One dead, four hurt in fire at 2812 1st Av. S. (Nicole Norfleet)
about the writer
James Shiffer
“This was certainly not an outcome that we were hoping would materialize, and we know that today’s path forward does not provide a perfect solution,” interim OCM director Charlene Briner said Wednesday.
