John is secretly very tired of talking to candidates for Minneapolis Park Board, so he combined two of them into one episode, just to get this over with quicker. Becky Alper (beckyforparks.org) is running in district 3 and Tom Olsen (olsenforparks.org) running citywide at-large. We talk about parkways and how to use them. John maintains that not even the biggest automobile enthusiast goes to a park to experience the sights and sounds of car traffic. Tom talks about his ideas for reallocating space from underutilized baseball fields towards things like soccer, skateboarding and basketball. John accuses him of going to war against baseball. Becky wants to speed up the implementation of new ideas by using pilot projects rather than extended years long processes. We also talk about encampments, park police, boulevard trees, pesticides, legalizing alcohol in parks, and much more.

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