Honestly lol that we're all pretending that Uber/Lyft, the services that by design require drivers to be looking at their phones half the time, are paragons of road safety and Waymos are going to be significantly worse.

Idk how it made it past the current park board, but it's very cool that they're turning the parking lot at my neighborhood park into a basketball court.

If you've installed a heat pump (or have electric baseboard heat or similar) in Xcel's territory in Minnesota, make sure you're on the residential space heating rate - it's more than 40% cheaper than the normal wintertime residential rate. www.mncee.org/mn-puc-appro...

Back of the envelope math, but the park board could probably bring in $4-500k/year by metering the part of West River Parkway immediately north of Plymouth, where parking is 80%+ utilized all day every day between North Loop commuters, Mpls Bouldering Project climbers, and Pryes Brewing patrons.

Baby's first train!

11/10 day to be told that my corporate laptop needs reimaging and I just need to kill two hours downtown in the early afternoon.

Some personal news.

Lol, can we change the name of the park now? And build out that last quarter? www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2025/05/21/graco-leaves-minneapolis-rogers-dayton.html

did they just pick the guy most easily able to yell at JD Vance

Chicago Pope?!?!

Man, what if the Parks and Recreation Board reserved the parkways for recreational uses instead of spending all their money maintaining streets for commuters to save (generously) fifteen seconds?

Idk which I'm madder about, that there's a guy in my neighborhood with a Trump 2024 sticker on his truck, or that he uses that truck for a daily commute of less than 1000'.

Park Board has once more done a bad thing, for stupid reasons, and I'm mad about it: "Pretend Concerns Over Fire Safety Doom Plan for Added Green Space at Uptown’s Mall Park"

Through the magic of Transit app, I just watched a northbound Rt 6 get from Oak Grove to 3rd St faster than my Rt 11 got from 11th St to 3rd St. Hennepin should obviously have bus lanes through downtown, but even without them, it works notably better for transit than Nicollet Mall does.

We need to say #YestoHomes More neighbors, yes please! www.startribune.com/minnesota-le...

Apparently Betty Danger's will be replaced by "Betty Danger's, but with tacos". Can't imagine it'll last more than a year or two, but it's better than the space staying vacant until someone manages to figure out how to finance apartment buildings again. www.bizjournals.com/twincities/n...

Voter 119 in 1-3 at 5:30pm. Seems decent for a special election?

Fewer delays/detours for current Nicollet buses with bus lanes on Marquette, added bus lanes on Hennepin, better stop spacing on the 7th/8th BRT spine by moving the Nicollet stops to Marquette - the Local buses on Marquette proposal would improve practically every route that passes through DT Mpls.

Almost nothing is more my shit than being able to take a city bus to a mountain ski resort.

Looks a hell of a lot more pleasant to cross on foot, or live near than a Hiawatha-style surface expressway, even if the expressway had trees planted in the medians and signs saying "Boulevard".

Remarkable how much better I feel about the bitter cold with a layer of snow on the ground. Below zero and brown, like last week, is just such a downer.

The service wires running to every building cost the same to maintain whether they're carrying 10 amps or 100. I only put one garbage bag in my bin per week, but I get charged the same as my neighbor who always fills theirs to the top, because we're both getting the same weekly collection service.

I don't think I've ever seen a craft beer sampler pack that doesn't include at least one pale ale. A Christmas miracle.

I am by no means surprised that the completely car-brained Minneapolis Parks Board didn't bother to get around to clearing the bike trails today, but I am disappointed.

Fun bike commute in today! The side streets that hadn't been plowed yet were challenging as always with skinny (studded) tires, but streets that had seen a plow like Marshall St NE were just fine. #mspcyclecast

Nice to see a few snowflakes coming down. Cold and grey/brown isn't a good look for Minneapolis, we need a layer of snow.

New train day!

So, pedestrianizing a street and moving bus lines a block away from the destinations they serve is just fine, as long as it's not the Wrong People proposing it?

The restroom page, more than anything, makes me think that this is a plan worth engaging with. We'll see what happens, of course, but this is the first time I can remember that a plan specifies developing new (staffed!) facilities instead of, like, asking restaurant owners nicely to let people in.

I do love the reconstructed segment of Lowry St NE, but it sucks that they removed the stoplight at Washington St (which drivers mostly respected) with a flashing beacon that drivers mostly ignore. Especially bad since it's immediately east of the railroad underpass, for minimum visibility.

Extremely FYI if you're driving or especially biking in Marshall Terrace: Columbia Ave NE is flooded a good 6-8" deep between 31st and St Anthony Parkway. Would not recommend trying to get through.

Welp, guess I'll prep the winter bike this evening.

I am beside myself at this news. That literally overnight, one of the region's largest transit projects just doubled in length in a move no one saw coming. No years of studies and engagement and agitating for funding. Metro Transit just did it. THIS IS HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO WORK!

Begging drivers to just go around the block when they need to change directions rather than blocking the street for three minutes while they painstakingly make a 15-point u-turn.

hey locals - NWS TWIN CITIES BOT IS UP! @mpx.nws-bot.us

A bus taking nine minutes to traverse nine short, car-free blocks is bad, to me.

My airport limo approaches. Only ten minutes slower than an Uber, but $48 cheaper and with none of the driver exploitation.

For something *not* related to the news of the day: Ridership on Amtrak's new Borealis service just keeps increasing! Preliminary August ridership of 22,309--over 1,000 more riders than July! Transporting an average of over 700 passengers/day! www.allaboardminnesota.org/about/new-2n...

Remember, the original B Line BRT on West 7th was fully funded and scheduled to open in 2016, then Ramsey County killed it in favor of faffing about with this streetcar plan for literally a decade.

In just the last fifteen minutes of glancing out my office window, I've seen a Cybertruck drive by and an Alpha News billboard go up. What a terrible day to have eyes.

New Lowry Ave NE is looking good!

Finally had the misfortune to see the South Minneapolis Cybertruck with my own two eyes. Even worse than I could have imagined.

Here's the big news: 12-minute LRT frequencies will return in August

You really do love to see it. That's nearly a quarter million passengers a year. I heartily endorse the Borealis train. I'm literally posting this from one right now.

We're seeing #CatsoftheWedge

Starting off the Twin Cities Brewvet at Sociable Cider Werks. Stop 1 of 23!

It would be nice if elected office was considered, like, a commitment to serve the term you were elected to, and not just an interchangeable private-sector job to do until you get bored and hop to something else, sticking your constituents with a special election at the drop of a hat.

Riverfront summer

Nothing warms my heart more than hearing the Amtrak conductor announce our arrival into Minneapolis as we pull into Union Depot.