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The police video tower at 7-11 is not actually a police video tower - it is owned (or rented) by the 7-11 itself, and on their property. I doubt the city can do anything about it except ask nicely. Guess you could file a noise complaint after 10 PM.…
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Noticed fencing around the area when I walked by on Wednesday and wondered what was happening. Apparently nothing anytime soon. Historical comment that the EL police district that encompasses most of downtown stops at Abbot, west of Abbot is anot…
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I somehow found myself reading East Lansing's guide for "street trees" recently and, if memory serves, the city will not plant a maple for you... not because they hate maple, but just because the city has so many right now. Want some diversity.
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Can really see too how much ridership in the overall system is driven by students.
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So I'm reading through CATA's "Road Ahead" report here and, unless I'm misunderstanding something, frankly the numbers read as rather brutal to me. As we know, bus fare is $1.25... but how much does it cost CATA to deliver that ride? Answer seems to…
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Somewhat random here, but having just taken the train from East Lansing to Cincinnati and back (Amtrak's Blue Water and Cardinal), and having seen almost every station along the route, my impressions are: 1. The East Lansing station was almost ce…
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I wonder if some of it is just, do we have optimism about the future? I recently took the train to Chicago, and if you've done that, you know that little Niles, Michigan has a beautiful 100-year-old train station. I tend to think that even small cit…
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Maybe y'all knew this already, but an email from the airport this morning linked to a (three years old) press release that mentioned they are building a pedestrian walkway all the way from the airport terminal to Grand River Boulevard: https://ww…
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Say what you will about them, but I haven't seen a lot of "and here is some new manufacturing coming to your community because of tariffs". And this does appear to actually be that.
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I didn't realize actually (the only properties we've ever owned are in East Lansing, so no point of personal comparison for us). Quick web search right now suggests, effective property tax rates: National median: 1.02% Michigan median: 1.2% …
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Lansing releases draft non-motorized transportation plan, seeks public comment: https://mckenna.mysocialpinpoint.com/lansing-non-motorized-transportation-plan 280 pages so I, uh, have not yet read it.
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We are slightly far afield, but I can certainly understand why EL wants to hire two more police officers dedicated to the downtown. Also on my Friday night ride-along, there were three fights in about an hour (Dave's Hot Chicken, outside the 7-11, a…
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We do need to somehow handle this better. Actually did a ride-along with an officer last night. Mentioned that the night before, someone had been throwing rocks at the 7-11. "Why was he throwing rocks?" "Mental health issues. We know this guy,…
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They did also say that the number of mental health related calls has surged over the last five years. They offered no explanation for that fact, though I personally wondered about marijuana. (They did mention one case study of a guy they regularly i…
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Side comment, but I'm talking a class with the East Lansing police and they mentioned that, it is very easy for the police to grab someone behaving in an erratic way (or threatening suicide or something), take them to Sparrow, and then the police fi…
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I gots to tell you though, the longest I ever had to wait in an airport security line was flying out of Traverse City. True story. I have no idea if that was before or after any terminal update! I hope Lansing keeps those little "Welcome to Lansi…
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East Lansing is (other than Chicago) easily the biggest stop on the Blue Water route. You hate to neglect the cities to the east, but I have wondered if even just a Chicago <-> EL run... it would almost certainly be more cost effective for Amt…
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Slightly random here, but I did find it interesting that a concern very briefly expressed at the last East Lansing city council meeting was that, as part of its renovation of Spartan Stadium, MSU would actually build a little restaurant/bar area aro…
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It does feel weird, to me, to have a giant surface parking lot stuck between the two downtowns, feels like the location should be more "built up" than that. (I say that, yet we recently returned from a vacation in downtown Houston... and there are l…