First, I apologize for my absence. I am working on another project and for my own sanity had to withdraw from the on-line world. And all of the investigations regarding Ferguson are stirring up the local power structure, and this will effect Bi-State/Metro. (The next impending financial crisis will likely be a repeat of 08, but with muni and other government bonds, instead of mortgages. So there's that, too.)
However, here in Riverview things have been getting really weird. Drones flying overhead during the day and late at night, cars getting dumped, expensive vehicles with heavy tints on the windows, and unfamiliar white people cruising around.) Yesterday was especially strange.
Only one channel reported the shooting. Here is the link and the message I sent to KPLR about it.
I plan to be back on line in mid-June. If you are in St. Louis, keep your eyes open. A lot of hidden things are coming to light. Those that aren't Ferguson or local P.D. related are being ignored or overlooked. (And remember, as you read this, that Bi-State runs the airport in Cahokia. Heroin is not coming to St. Louis on private planes and yachts of inner-city gangs. Urban gangs to don't run the river ports.)
Regarding http://kplr11.com/2014/03/17/gruesome-shooting-leaves-one-dead-in-riverview/
I live here and I heard the shots. I live near Northgate and Chambers. At the same time this was occurring there were a number of emergency vehicles at the end of Chambers, where it dead ends passed SE Chambers Rd. This part of Chambers is expensive homes. The police blocked off SE Chambers and Chambers and there were ambulance and many different muni police cars and K-9 units there, too. For this reason I assumed the shots came from that direction (sound carries here very strange, perhaps because of all the hills and valleys, I don't know).
It would be nice if someone would start asking how poor urban black youth are able to get such a huge amount of heroin into the city, and how these alleged gang wars and shootings are funded. I wish someone would look into the coincidence of the ATF sting operations since 2010 and the increase in shootings attributed to local gangs. I wish someone would look into how the ports are handled here, and the history of illegal smuggling on the Mississippi river.
Globally, it might be nice if someone looked into opium production in Afghanistan, and how it rises and falls with US involvement (rises when the US is control, falls when the US loses control).
The investigations in Ferguson are disrupting secret power structures here that have been in place, undisturbed, for decades. If you reject the story that this is all gang warfare and start really looking, a very different story begins to emerge. Inept public officials, poverty imprisoned, angry, urban youth, and local drug dealers are a mask for a corrupt core of people who have used St Louis air and river ports for decades for their own dirty business. The trail of violence and drugs leads out of the ghetto, not further into it.
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Showing posts with label riverview. Show all posts
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Sunday, June 22, 2014
THE OBVIOUS, INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM OF THE NORTH RIVERFRONT GREENWAY TRAIL DEVELOPMENT
This is the website for the trail:
http://www.greatriversgreenway.org/trails/north-riverfront-trail.aspx
The "greenway" trail from downtown runs 11 miles between Hall street and the river until the Riverview and Hall intersection, and then comes out from behind the industrial sprawl of Hall street and continues between Riverview Blvd and the river, until Chain of Rocks bridge.
The Riverview Metro Bus Transfer Center is located at Hall and Riverview. It is a big intersection, and there are no pedestrian crosswalks north of Hall. In fact, there is no crosswalk on Riverview from Hall street until the Greenway trail crossing at the water reclamation plant north of Spring Garden.
There are no bus stops on Riverview north of Hall, even though both the #61 Riverview and #75 Lilac-Hanley turn at Scranton, across from the North Riverfront Park parking lot and public facilities.
The bridge over Maline creek, just north of the intersection, is out on one side, the west side. If you are walking up Riverview, as a lot of people do, you must cross the street to go over the bridge, and then cross back again if you want to walk on a paved trail.
It is from the east side that the Greenway Trail emerges. If this Greenway were anywhere south of Delmar, or west of Union, they would be promoting using public transit for a part of the Riverfront Trail's 11 mile stretch. (Ride from downtown and take the bus back, or vice versa.)
Of course, if you ride the bus from Metro's Riverview-Hall transfer center, you see some of St. Louis' ugliest secrets out in the open. First, you will see the many, many railroad tracks that run along Hall and Broadway, and wonder why the Metrolink hasn't been extended north? Especially considering the second thing you will discover: that by bus you will need to travel at least 40 minutes to the nearest Metrolink, regardless of what bus line you ride. Third, again, no matter which bus you take, you will travel through the most impoverished and crime ridden neighborhoods in St. Louis.
If this were south of Delmar, there would crosswalks and the bridge would have been repaired and re-opened on the east side of the street. There would be clear signage and sidewalks and lighting.
For about three months there was a big bag of garbage lying on the sidewalk over the Maline creek wash. There are no lights on the bridge for the bike path and it is in very bad repair. The bike path has a blind corner, where locals say there has been at least one mugging of a bicyclist.
At the end of the trail, Chain of Rocks Bridge parking lot has been closed. The concrete barriers are always in place, and the lot is overgrown and neglected.
The city of St. Louis keeps the "finger" of Riverview because of the riverfront park, the Chain of Rocks bridge, and especially, the property and income tax from the wealthy homes that face the river along Riverview drive and the bluffs above it. The "finger" of St. Louis city really belongs to the county municipalities of Glasgow Village and the Village of Riverview, and the Riverview Gardens School District.
The North Riverfront Greenway Trail is the type of negligence that is common in north Saint Louis city and county. It is obvious racism, the kind that has been institutionalized for so long that few people question it.
In St. Louis, all Greenways are NOT created equal.
http://www.greatriversgreenway.org/trails/north-riverfront-trail.aspx
The "greenway" trail from downtown runs 11 miles between Hall street and the river until the Riverview and Hall intersection, and then comes out from behind the industrial sprawl of Hall street and continues between Riverview Blvd and the river, until Chain of Rocks bridge.
The Riverview Metro Bus Transfer Center is located at Hall and Riverview. It is a big intersection, and there are no pedestrian crosswalks north of Hall. In fact, there is no crosswalk on Riverview from Hall street until the Greenway trail crossing at the water reclamation plant north of Spring Garden.
There are no bus stops on Riverview north of Hall, even though both the #61 Riverview and #75 Lilac-Hanley turn at Scranton, across from the North Riverfront Park parking lot and public facilities.
The bridge over Maline creek, just north of the intersection, is out on one side, the west side. If you are walking up Riverview, as a lot of people do, you must cross the street to go over the bridge, and then cross back again if you want to walk on a paved trail.
It is from the east side that the Greenway Trail emerges. If this Greenway were anywhere south of Delmar, or west of Union, they would be promoting using public transit for a part of the Riverfront Trail's 11 mile stretch. (Ride from downtown and take the bus back, or vice versa.)
Of course, if you ride the bus from Metro's Riverview-Hall transfer center, you see some of St. Louis' ugliest secrets out in the open. First, you will see the many, many railroad tracks that run along Hall and Broadway, and wonder why the Metrolink hasn't been extended north? Especially considering the second thing you will discover: that by bus you will need to travel at least 40 minutes to the nearest Metrolink, regardless of what bus line you ride. Third, again, no matter which bus you take, you will travel through the most impoverished and crime ridden neighborhoods in St. Louis.
If this were south of Delmar, there would crosswalks and the bridge would have been repaired and re-opened on the east side of the street. There would be clear signage and sidewalks and lighting.
For about three months there was a big bag of garbage lying on the sidewalk over the Maline creek wash. There are no lights on the bridge for the bike path and it is in very bad repair. The bike path has a blind corner, where locals say there has been at least one mugging of a bicyclist.
At the end of the trail, Chain of Rocks Bridge parking lot has been closed. The concrete barriers are always in place, and the lot is overgrown and neglected.
The city of St. Louis keeps the "finger" of Riverview because of the riverfront park, the Chain of Rocks bridge, and especially, the property and income tax from the wealthy homes that face the river along Riverview drive and the bluffs above it. The "finger" of St. Louis city really belongs to the county municipalities of Glasgow Village and the Village of Riverview, and the Riverview Gardens School District.
The North Riverfront Greenway Trail is the type of negligence that is common in north Saint Louis city and county. It is obvious racism, the kind that has been institutionalized for so long that few people question it.
In St. Louis, all Greenways are NOT created equal.
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