Busy weekend - downtown library, splash pad, bandshell - filling out the map! Need a bigger SD card...

90s mix play over the speakers at GiGi's Cafe. I'll just be sitting here all day.

The first ride that I didn't upload is up! See what Somerville et al. bike infrastructure looks like today:

This is the worst part of the commute - a 300 meter stretch along 62. The entire 17 mile ride gets plowed within 24 hrs after snowfall except this section. It usually takes a full week for the responsible city to get to this sidewalk, and it becomes impassible.

Im just going to force everyone to look at my commute. This is the Bluffs Trail in Minnetonka, along Shady Oak Lake. This spot is where I see a Baltimore Oriole (bird not MLB player) every couple of weeks.

I am just basking in this Lyndale news. In a few years, my kids are going to be able to ride their bikes from 50th and Bryant to Lyndale to Loring Park and down Hennepin to get to the dowtown library. 99% of 6 miles on a curb level, protected bikeway.

I think it's important to remember how close to a disaster this whole reconstruction ended up getting. Everyone should be sending huge "thank you"s to @katiecashman.bsky.social and @aishaforward10.com for pulling this from the brink.

Lyndale plan approved by the city council 8-4! This isn't veto proof, but I'm not too worried. Mayor Frey probably isn't the level of maniac as these council members who voted no: Warren, Shaffer, Rainville, Vetaw.

I shouldn't be this nervous listening to a city council stream about a street reconstruction.

I've been playing around with a project to share fresh, mapped, street-view bike infrastructure images. The idea is that if you could see what your route looked like yesterday/last week/last month when someone else rode it, it might be easier to get out the door. lane.kleinbaum.us

Great. Thanks, @minneapolismn.gov, but this is not the first time this truck has been parked on the sidewalk and bike lane and reported to 311. How many times do they get advised before they actually get ticketed?

No better way to travel. We're listening to George's Marvelous Medicine and watching Long Island go by.

It's smoothie for dinner night in this house.

I just learned about Free Geek Twin Cities like 3 months ago. It's an electronics thrift store with great stuff. We are headed on a trip and decided it was time to get a tablet for the kid to watch TV on the plane - $30 for an outdated mini tablet that does the job. And it's just off the Greenway

I've been playing with this idea of a site where people can upload gps tracked bike rides to show up to date status of bike lanes. Apparently, I've just been remaking Mappilary.

Sometimes, you just need to go run and get some flowers.

Feeling like a Roald Dahl character at Perrenial's Faux-to booth

Hot take: It's not a real pencil.

Make👏 the👏 Greenway👏 wider 👏

Are there any physical banks in Minneapolis that do kid's savings accounts?

Heads up Minneapolis, autonomous kid in training. Just rode 1.5 miles to donuts and back.

Did i see an actual turtle or a person in a turtle suit on my way to work today? I had no idea turtle legs were so long.

With Hennepin and Lyndale discourse going on, it seems like a good time to remind everyone that Aveage Daily Traffic on Lyndale has dropped 40% since the early 2000s. If business owners really want more business, more of the same isn't going to do that.

I replaced the shifter cables on my Urban Arrow for the first time yesterday with the "help" of my 4 yr old. Not described anywhere but a critical step is to take this rubber mallet and go see how hard you can whack the ground away from the bike while dad figures out how long the cables need to be

The Time of the Opt-Outs is Over: https://streets.mn/2026/05/13/you-could-have-five-or-six-transit-operators-or-just-one/ You could have five or six transit operators or just one.

I don't know what work was being done here, but this can't be the permanent fix of our nationally acclaimed bike lane, right? At 50th and Bryant.

Not to brag, but I'm pretty good at cleaning up a carseat in a gas station parking lot after a kid pukes all over the back seat 45min into a 4 hr car trip.

I used to complain about NJ Transit all the time when I used it to get to work, but with some distance, it's very easy to see what a remarkable asset it is. What I'd give to have a similar system in Minnesota.

Am I hanging out at the airport with the Minnesota Frost? Or just a group of two dozen women in thier mid 20s wearing Frost gear?

It took nearly a year, but I was able to get "Regional Transportation District" into a @startribune.com story www.startribune.com/transit-plan...

Fun stuff pops out when I zoom in on the map... My son doesn't like going over the "bumps" in the curb cut at 40th and Chicago, so I am required to go completely around the island which you can see in the GPS route. Everywhere I see something goofy in the map it reminds me of a fun adventure.

A little over a year ago we abruptly went from a two car family of three to a one car family of four and I had to start bike commuting to work in Chanhassen. I've tracked nearly every bike ride I've taken and finally got a chance to map it. Fun to see the shape of the city pop out.

On my way to work this morning, I saw a Green Line test car absolutely flying between the Shady Oak station and Hopkins. I'm excited. For the first time, I'm optimistic that a hybrid light rail/bike commute will be faster than just the bike.

This morning, I wasn't really upset about anything because the DOW was over 50,000. But as of this moment its 49,450 and I'm fucking livid. Abolish ICE.

A parent at my kids’ school was abducted a few hours ago. Please help us help the family with legal expenses and care for their elementary school son (who doesn’t even know his dad was taken yet 💔): gofund.me/20a5b26ab

I believe that the impeccable timing of the Minnesota state flag redesign is proof that time travel exists.

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”

My neighborhood school collectively fundraised over $100,000 to support our neighbors with rent and bills this last month. Now we need to do it all over again for March. PLEASE HELP! Every family we're working to keep housed & fed has elementary aged children. gofund.me/aac122499

You may not like it, but this is what peak truck performance looks like.

I’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.

Peter and the Wolf was canceled, but we still played hooky. Started at Our Kitchen for chocolate chip pancakes. Took the E line to the Walker and spent the morning at Show and Tell: Exhibit for Kids. Ended the day at Bryant Lake and the nicest host gave us a few free frames and stickers.

Just me casually doing today's NYT crossword in 6 min and 37 seconds. Move along. Nothing to see. 😎

I'm going to use this post to highlight that the county is currently working on public engagement for reconstructing this corridor! Make sure to tell them what you think. beheardhennepin.org/cedar-avenue

I've found myself trying to help a group of 4 families trying to pay rent for February. They need $5500. I can cover most of it, but I'm starting to get tapped out. If anyone can help contribute anything, I'd appreciate it. Venmo: @eikleinbaum

Can we, as Minnesotans, please push to get venmo transfers considered tax deductible this year?

I have yet to experience donor fatigue. Feels more like donor mania.

Got an email saying the MN Orchestra is postponing next week's performance of Peter and the Wolf to October because of ICE. My 4 yr old is going to be devastated. We've been talking about it for months.

I would like to take a rest from my hyperlocal news sources breaking national news, please.

I'll be honest. While I'm glad the Republicans cynically draping themselves in the 2nd amendment is seemingly falling apart, I don't know why you would bring a gun to observe ICE. What's the plan? To get in a gunfight with federal agents?

I'm famous! that's my ear and shoulder right next to Cheryl Reeve's head.