Change pulses through Hiawatha Ave like the 900 volts of direct current powering Minneapolis' light rail cars. The potential power of voltage becomes the hope of light rail, which is as much about a city's imagination and a new vision of itself as it is about moving passengers. Accompanying urban renewal flows from negative terminal to positive, from undeveloped to what will be. Trains of change. Never mind the Ohms of resistance, those last-century thinkers with negative terminals corroded by cynicism.
Posted by Streetwalker at December 7, 2003 09:46 AM