Neighborhood with Light Rail + Good Schools? (park, area, elementary)

[ColdRedRain]

, and has Dowling Elementary - another great school.

Only if you want your children to become lifelong communists.

[Libby01]

Highland Park in St Paul has an excellent elementary school- Mann Elementary and is super close to the 46th street light rail station. There are a number of buses that can take you across the river to the light rail station, or you can walk.

[specificnorthwest]

Thanks everybody...

speaking of buses, how would rate the bus system for being able to get to/from either downtown from various neighborhoods...Is it reliable/efficient enough so that i don't have to be near a light rail and therefore have more options for neighborhoods....(if you haven't guessed I'd like to minimize by car dependence..especially for daily commuting purposes)

[Libby01]

Bus service to downtown is generally pretty good. I tend to prefer light rail because it's more reliable (rain, snow don't slow down the trains!). Most of my coworkers take mass transit because parking downtown is so expensive.

[Ben Around]

Originally Posted by specificnorthwest

Thanks everybody...

speaking of buses, how would rate the bus system for being able to get to/from either downtown from various neighborhoods...Is it reliable/efficient enough so that i don't have to be near a light rail and therefore have more options for neighborhoods....(if you haven't guessed I'd like to minimize by car dependence..especially for daily commuting purposes)

There are 4 different bus routes that run from Highland Village (the area around the Ford Plant) directly to the 46 St. LRT station. The bus ride is ~5 minutes.

[uptown_urbanist]

Buses generally work pretty well. I prefer light rail when available, but since my favorite neighborhoods in Minneapolis are not located along light rail I stick with the bus. Most of the people I know who work downtown take the bus to work. It's generally pretty reliable and sticks to the schedule, even in the winter. So yes, I think you're safe expanding your neighborhood search.

[Radical_Car]

Originally Posted by ColdRedRain

Only if you want your children to become lifelong communists.

Just about every one of your posts are extremely ignorant.

[uptown_urbanist]

Hey, maybe he has a point; back when I was at school at Northrop Montessori (before it moved over to Seward) and Gorbachev came to town back in the late 80s or early 90s we all trekked out to tie big ribbons around trees along his potential motorcade route. Didn't make a communist out of me, though. (now Seward: now THAT's the Twin Cities neighborhood that historically, anyway, was the place-to-be for the local would-be communists.)

Although one could perhaps say that my exposure to diversity of all kinds, including economic, has made me a devotedly liberal; lots of us lefties come out of the MPS, so beware...

[ETA: and if you're not as liberal as me you don't need to worry, either; Minneapolis is pretty far to the left, politically-speaking, but the schools have some conservatives there, too; the head of the Taxpayers League of MN even came to talk to my brother's class when he was in school, although admittedly the audience was presumably pretty skeptical.)

[ColdRedRain]

Just about every one of your posts are extremely ignorant.

I went there as a kid and I have friends who went to Dowling that are now sending their kids to Dowling as well too. We all had the same complaint about Dowling: Nothing was allowed and we all had to share our goodies with underachievers. From what their parents tell me, it's still the same.

Added: MPS probably was the tipping point into what turned me into being a conservative. I saw what happened when you have an authoritarian system where you mention or do something that's politically incorrect results in a suspension or an expulsion. I also saw what happened with zero tolerance policies and how unequally they were enforced. A day didn't go by where the Afro-American kids always started fights with racial overtones (And before some stupid white liberal calls me "racist", I'm black) , even with other black kids from other countries and both the vitcim and the aggressors got into trouble. That happened A LOT at Dowling.

[Radical_Car]

Originally Posted by ColdRedRain

I went there as a kid and I have friends who went to Dowling that are now sending their kids to Dowling as well too. We all had the same complaint about Dowling: Nothing was allowed and we all had to share our goodies with underachievers. From what their parents tell me, it's still the same.

Added: MPS probably was the tipping point into what turned me into being a conservative. I saw what happened when you have an authoritarian system where you mention or do something that's politically incorrect results in a suspension or an expulsion. I also saw what happened with zero tolerance policies and how unequally they were enforced. A day didn't go by where the Afro-American kids always started fights with racial overtones (And before some stupid white liberal calls me "racist", I'm black) , even with other black kids from other countries and both the vitcim and the aggressors got into trouble. That happened A LOT at Dowling.

Ok, thanks for clearing that up

And I have seen your picture in your profile, so im aware your black and not a racist, and I know what thats like with the color kids starting fights everyday