Can’t agree with Ayd Mill plan
I have tremendous respect for the job that Mayor Carter is doing for St. Paul but I can’t agree with his current idea for Ayd Mill Road. Countless millions of dollars have been spent nationwide to create divided road traffic systems because of their enhanced safety and efficiency.
To convert Ayd Mill road to two-way traffic would be a serious error.
Vehicular traffic is 24/7 every month of the year. Pedestrian and bicycle traffic is a very small percentage of the time and during bad weather often drops to zero. Ironically in bad weather divided traffic systems are clearly significantly safer.
I believe Ayd Mill road deserves a good pedestrian pathway but it should be alongside the divided roadway not instead of.
Bernie Beermann, South St. Paul
Now this …
Couldn’t get Trump with RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA or RACIST, RACIST, RACIST … so now it’s the RECESSION, RECESSION, RECESSION hoax, lol.
Joe Engesser, Red Wing
Taxing consumers
“Tariffs could squeeze U.S consumers,” the Pioneer Press reported on Aug. 4. But wait. The Trump administration claims China is paying “many billions of dollars to the USA” because of the Trump policy on tariffs.
I suspect it is like Mexico is going to pay for the wall. As the article made clear the first round of tariffs cost each American household roughly $830 per year. Plus the next round of tariffs will add another $200 to each American household. That is a tax on each household of over $1,000 per year. Businesses will either have to absorb the increased cost or pass the increase onto their customers. If they choose to absorb the increase it would be comparable to a tax increase for the business.
Every time I make a purchase, except for food and clothing, I can see the sales tax that I pay. Maybe businesses that pass on their added cost of products should include what the increase in price was caused by this administration’s tariff policy.
David Arnold, Maplewood
Do we realize?
Recent headlines beg the question “Do we realize we’re one people?”
We’re so territorial and intolerant we don’t see that we’re one human race.
Gail Mullaney, Woodbury