Does Climate Change Control Our Highway Projects?

There have been many controversies on the Highway #99 Project through Le Center, MN, that are starting to fall into place. In the draft plans, the reconstruction of the highway through the city, leaves no access to the businesses and takes portions of land from some of the businesses for the construction of roundabouts. The businesses along this stretch of highway are predominantly connected to automotive services: car wash, gas stations, body shop, and detailing.

Guess what folks? In our current world of hysteria about Climate Change, the automobiles are the culprit! And don’t be fooled, this has deep connections to the Comprehensive Land Use Plan being updated in Le Sueur County as well. We’ll connect those dots in another communication lest this gets too confusing.

Here’s an eye-opening statement that led to the “Aha” moment connecting the peculiarities in the highway draft plans from MnDot- for this stretch of highway through Le Center, and the fact that most businesses effected are automotive businesses.

From this website: https://climate.state.mn.us/envisioning-cleaner-transportation-future we are told:

“Transportation is the number one source of carbon pollution in the United States, and became the single largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Minnesota in 2016.”

On this page: https://climate.state.mn.us/transportation we find remedies to the crisis created by automobiles:

“We learned that stakeholders want to see:
– transportation solutions that address and prioritize equity
– a more robust strategy for reducing vehicle miles traveled
– more support for non-motorized transportation options, including funding to support active transportation modes like biking and walking.”
(emphasis added)

Mm-hmm!

Stakeholders! Who are they? They are mentioned non-stop in the Comprehensive Land Use plans.

Equity? How does that fit into the conversation about repaving/reconstructing a highway?

Who wants to reduce vehicle miles traveled? Did they let you weigh in on that?

More funding for non-motorized transportation? Using our tax money to immobilize us!

Oh yeah! More taxation to support the imaginative climate crisis that the young Greta Thunberg warned us about when she flew across the ocean to educate us Americans, looked the camera in the eye, and stated “How Dare You!”

Another page: https://climate.state.mn.us/climate-action-framework-progress-report offers more remedies to the problem at hand, with the help of more tax money:

“Goal 1 – Clean Transportation
Connecting Minnesota through a safe, equitable, and sustainable transportation system that
serves all people of our state.

Progress:
– $1 billion investment in public transit. New rebates to make EVs and e-bikes more
accessible
– $80 million in federal funds for projects like EV chargers and bike paths.”

We, the taxpayers, are a never ending source of money for these people who believe it is their responsibility to protect the earth from us and our selfish, destructive ways.

Notice the desire for public transit? The “Corridor Alternative” draft plans provided for the Highway #99 Project, show a 10′ wide allowance for parking on the South side of the highway, on each side of the entrance to the County Fairgrounds. Might this be planned as a passenger drop-off for transit vehicles?

See alternative #2, at this site: https://hdr.jotform.com/251193410303948

They can surely walk to their destination from here, be it the fairgrounds or a business/residence in town. The concept of urban transport systems are not new to the
discussion of regional planners such as Region Nine Development Commission and Minnesota Valley Council of Governments.

Urban transport systems are also a staple in the planning of the United Nations document from the Earth Summit concerning transportation.

From Chapter 7 of that document- Human Settlements; Section 7.52:

– “…encourage development patterns that reduce transport demand.
– Adopt urban-transport programmes favouring high-occupancy public transport…
– Encourage non-motorized modes of transport by providing safe cycleways and footways in urban and suburban centres…”

If you search the MnDot website for greenhouse gases, you’ll find an abundance of information relative to plans they have for the benefit of Climate Change, which include reducing the number of vehicles on the road and encouraging travel by foot and bicycle instead. This would explain the six foot wide sidewalks along the highway on one side, and the 10 foot wide bicycle paths along the highway on the other side, in the draft plans for highway #99 through Le Center.

When questioning the six foot wide sidewalks, we are told this is a requirement of the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act), which permits two wheelchairs adequate room to meet and pass. They’ve been working on their plans for a long time and they’ve thought of everything, combing through every conceivable question and tacking a ‘non-questionable’ answer to each.

Another key player in the transportation system planned for our future is MADO, the Minnesota Association of Development Organizations. On their website, under the tab ‘DevelopMN’ we find ‘Human Capital.’ Click on that and you have the following encouraging words:

“Opportunities for Human Capital:
• Population and workforce expansion through immigration” (emphasis added).

Think on that for a moment! If indeed they are planning on mass immigration as a development strategy for our communities, the six foot wide sidewalks may be a necessity. In many 3rd world countries people are lucky to have a house, let alone a vehicle. They navigate by foot. We also need to pay attention to the words ‘Human Capital.’ To these people that are planning our future, we are nothing but capital, inventory, a tool to be used at their whim for their prosperity. And you must question “population…expansion.” Ah yes, the stacking of the deck so-to-speak in areas where they wish to change the economic, political and social make-
up of a community.

On this site: https://mnado.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/DevelopMN-1.pdf we have a booklet: “Comprehensive Development Strategy for Greater Minnesota.” On page 7 we find:

“Increase the percentage of small businesses who are owned by new Americans and people of color through technical training and lending.” (emphasis added)

Here they are talking about immigration and equity. Notice that we the taxpayers, the people whose money supports the system, will not be the ones receiving the technical training nor be beneficiaries of the lending, it will be new Americans. What about the current small business owners whose livelihoods are threatened with the proposed draft plans for the Highway #99 corridor through Le Center? No concern for them?

On page 10 of the MADO booklet, we hear about climate change again:

“In 2018 in the United States, fossil fuel combustion accounts for 80% of greenhouse gas emissions and 98% of carbon dioxide emissions. The Center for Biological Diversity estimates that 4.1 billion metric tons are added to the atmosphere each year.”

Transportation is covered on page 11. Their concern is not the businesses along the corridor, it is the efficiency of the highway for “truck travel time.” They did mention that the roundabouts would be fashioned for trucks to drive over, right? https://hdr.jotform.com/251193410303948

“Alternative 3:
– Compact roundabout
– Allows trucks and larger vehicles to drive over center island”

If you feel compelled to look into this further, check out the abundance of information on the many links offered at this MnDot website and here.

This is big and there is a lot that is hidden! We have to search for the agendas hidden in their many plans for our future, because nobody will ever come right out and tell us the truth. Unfortunately many of the powers that be don’t even realize what they are helping to transport down the pike and usher into action. They are simply hearing rosy outcomes of Utopian ideals and have been conditioned to ‘sign here’ and ‘vote yes,’ without the need to think. The thinking is left to the planners, the folks that have been ‘appointed’ into positions of authority, not the persons that have been elected by the people.

Welcome to “Regional Governance” where people are “appointed” to make decisions for you, at your expense, without your consent.

“ The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and Inflation.”

~ Vladimir Lenin ~