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Beneath the Skyway

99% Invisible

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St. Paul's Skyways in Minneapolis

If you weren't a skyway person, it could be a maze. And there's almost nowhere to stop or pause or rest. There's very few benches, and there are unwritten rules the skyways. In one infamous incident from recent years, the saint paul police stopped and tazed a black man picking up his two children from their skyway connected day care for sitting on a bench in the lobby of an office building. You know, they literally like followed him and chased him down through like two different skyways, and he wasn't doing anything. And that's the fundamental problem with the skyways, are they for everyone, or are they just for certain people in the

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