Please Contact Us
Please contact the Midtown Greenway Coalition if you have been victim of a crime on the Midtown Greenway or know of someone who has so that we may post an account of the incident here. Please call 612-879-0106 or email:
trailwatch<at>midtowngreenway.org.
The Coalition is working hard to improve Greenway Safety, including organizing volunteers on Trail Watch rides that started early May 2009. We need your help! If enough people join/donate, we can keep up this work. Also, if you want to be a Trail Watch rider, learn more from our Trail Watch page (from home page, go to Trail Users, then Safety, visit our trail watch site.
For your safety, seek other trail users to buddy up with after dark and call 911 to report anything suspicious. If you must bike alone at night, behave as you would anywhere in the city and avoid loitering/stationary pedestrians because sometimes they have accomplices hiding nearby.
Also visit the safety homepage for more information on safe rider tips and more.
Incidents in the Past Six Months that the Coalition is Aware Of:
Shopping cart dropped from bridge. 11/25/09, 7 p.m., 13th Avenue bridge. Unidentified perpetrator threw a shopping cart from the 13th Avenue bridge, narrowly missing two riders. Incident was called into 911.
Source: http://mplsbikelove.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=36&p=187574#p187574
Assault. 11/15/09, Sunday, approx. 5:15 p.m. Midtown Greenway near 18th Avenue. Seven or eight kids ran down the banks of the Greenway from both banks just East of 18th Ave around 5:15pm. They were really loud and jumping around the center of the Greenway. Observer of assault attempted to warn rider behind who didn't hear and continued. Victim was first chased by the kids, then knocked off his bike.
Source: http://mplsbikelove.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=14845
Robbery and assault. 11/7/09, Saturday, approx. 1:30 a.m., Hiawatha Avenue and East 28th Street. According to recent news sources, at about 1:30 am on November 7th there was an attempted robbery and attack by Hiawatha and E 28th St. The two robbers punched the robbery victim and demanded money. The robbery victim responded by stabbing one of the robbers who later died at the hospital. The MGC is distressed that there was yet one more attempted robbery on the Greenway, while also mourning a young life lost. Impending police investigations have yet to determine whether the stabbing reaction by the robbery victim was appropriate.
Source: Star Tribune
Source: WCCO
Objects dropped from bridge. 9/25/09 and approx. 8/25/09, Friday, approx. 8:30am. Midtown Greenway, 13th Avenue Bridge. Individual of indeterminate age/race dropped large stick in first instance, large cup of soda in second, on male cyclist. Please use caution and heightened awareness when riding under this bridge.
Assault with pepper spray. 9/25/09, Friday, 10:30 p.m. Hiawatha LRT trail (not the Greenway) between 24th Street S and 26th Street S. Three males of indeterminate race sprayed lone female cyclist with pepper spray, demanded money, took bike lights, ran away. Cyclist bruised but not seriously hurt.
Source: http://mplsbikelove.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=174543#p174543
Assault. 9/25/09, Friday, 7:15 p.m. Midtown Greenway, near Garfield (west of Nicollet). Two African-American males, one wearing all black, other wearing light colored shawl and embroidered cap walking from west, one ran toward victim, other attempted to push lone male cyclist off velomobile but missed. Please use special caution riding near the Garfield intersection of the Greenway.
Incidents are posted with the following information (when available):
date, time, location, armed mugging vs assault or other, # of assailants and their description (if we have a clear description), whether it was light or dark out, lone trail user or not, whether victim was physically harmed. |
