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MPLS City Council Passes 'Idling' Ordinance
Filed under: Environment
The Minneapolis City Council and Mayor R.T. Rybak approved an ordinance Friday that puts a three-minute limit on the time drivers are allowed to let their cars idle. The goal is to cut back on emissions and improve air quality.
The ordinance does not apply to cars stuck in traffic or to police cars idling in speed traps.
Unfortunately, the council ignored our suggested add-on that would've gone further in addressing a larger menace: joyriding. Our proposal would have entailed putting up checkpoints throughout the city and requiring all drivers to carry printed-out MapQuest directions plotting out their trip. (Any driver found deviating more than three blocks from the most direct route woulde have been fined $100 for each block traversed beyond the three-block threshold.) Oh well. Maybe someday.
Posted by Matt Snyders at June 9, 2008 11:29 AM
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I think the rejection of the add-on was justifiable. Can we say Martial Law? So, if I decided to go to a friend's apartment after getting groceries would I need to go back home and get a print out? I suppose it might need more revisions.
Posted by: Kristina at June 9, 2008 5:39 PM
Why don't we move all large office buildings to Blaine where there's more space -- that way people won't idle on the grossly outdated roads leading to Minneapolis? Couldn't this problem be better addressed by putting toll roads in strategic locations, thus punishing suburbanites once again for their $4/gal SUVs?
Posted by: MPLS isn't the problem at June 9, 2008 7:26 PM
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