I-335 review youtu.be/h8jlNdROHBo?...

Reminds me I need to day trip to Winona on Borealis.

I am not exaggerating when I say Minneapolis should pedestrianize 60% of the streets. It would be fine. We'd have to actually add some people seating and bathrooms but I think we can figure that out.

Car drivers are killing kids but we refuse to do anything about: safer street design, automated prevention (speed limiters), automated enforcement, human enforcement. We are not doing any of these because drivers complain and then keep killing kids.

If Minneapolis were Montreal or Paris, Lyndale would be a prime candidate for pedestrianization.

And ofcourse the flip side of the same trope is that American cities also weren't built for cars. Even newer ones in then "far northwest" like St Paul & Minneapolis were built entirely around railroads, streetcars, and the bicycle. The 1st autos didn't show up til 40 years after their founding.

Fastest way to make a progressive sound like a conservative is to talk about car dependency. It's the single most unifying issue in American politics.

There's an old joke among urbanists: "What did American bombers do after World War II?" "They came back to the U.S., became urban planners, bombed the shit out of every American city, and replaced them with parking lots." The U.S. never recovered. To this day, our planners are bombing our cities.

Ffs, I prefer the taste of sour beer and it's a miracle that small breweries even make it. When I was in college in the 90s, we had no clue about the craft of making beer. It was just buzz slop juice to have a good time. This isn't chasing anything for clout, it's cultivating taste.

Dunno man, in my experience pedestrians and cyclists are some of the most intelligent, thoughtful and chill people. Why? Because physical movement is not only great for your body but also your brain. Trapping yourself in a car, never moving, never enjoying nature makes you a miserable person.

Less disposable income, lots of cheap entertainment options right in your phone and smart TV. I don't wonder if AI slop entertainment will bring about a revival of sorts for experimental theatre. Basically, anything live, improvised, flawed, creatively risky. The Angine theory of anti-AI art.

In the US, what we do is even sillier than this: every business you patronize, from the hardware store to the hair salon to the bar, is required by law to provide you with a place to keep your cow or refrigerator.

Conceptual Jacob tripping me out

Channel that energy into fighting car dependency!

Just watched a reel on hostile architecture and it reminded me how much I absolutely loathe hostile architecture. It had to be one of the most vile policy decisions any city can make. It's shameful, immoral and anti-human.

Yes.

One of the most alarming facts you learn when you first get into transportation stuff is that the median car trip in a U.S. city is under 3 miles. Given average city traffic speeds of under 20 miles per hour, most of those trips could *easily* be replaced by an e-bike. Parking: 5 cents an hour.

“the people running things are screwing me, so throw the bums out" A feeble old President who didn't bow out like he said he would. Then an odd transition to an unpopular VP. 2016: the spouse of a polarizing ex-president. Weird to have husband/wife presidents! It's weird to normies.

This is a backdoor way to ban speed and red light cameras and should be opposed

The economic misery rhetoric just isn't as effective as fighting for equality, fairness and healthcare. The ruling class are baffling. They are so wealthy they could easily provide American citizens with affordable housing and healthcare, instead they choose to hoard and use brute force. Idiots.

If you read the comments and QTs you'll get a great random sample of the various ways violent drivers rationalize their violence. This is a bipartisan effort by Congress to make it even more legal than it already is for violent drivers to kill and maim people. And violent drivers are celebrating.

One great thing about living in Minneapolis is that Europe is right next door.

A MEAL? A SUCCULENT AUSTRALIAN MEXICAN MEAL?

Obviously it was due to Chicago adding more bike lanes.

Trevor, we know Friday is the last day of school, but give us a call anyway. We’ve got a Go-To Card with your name on it!

Open web is garbage. I don't understand what people are out searching for all the time. I mean, sure there's a small cohort that needs to research for work. But who gets off work, and "surfs" the web? Gonna be a wild night, working on my boolean.

Seriously, are there any good transit agencies? This is so dispiriting.

As a society, if we actually cared about the negative impacts of a new technology, we wouldn't have automobiles.

Also, when you are walking, your perception of time changes so it doesn't feel that long. Plus, if the soft fascination kicks in your brain will move into diverge thinking mode. Walking isn't just transportation, it's a mode of thinking. It's such a shame so many people have abandoned it.

Introduce yourself with ten acts you've seen live: Nine Inch Nails Massive Attack Billy Joel Blonde Redhead Interpol Pearl Jam Radiohead Stone Temple Pilots Rage Against the Machine Soul Coughing

Is this forecast for real?

Not great Bob.

left the apartment for an after work walk. When I arrived back, the Wednesday wine down happy hour was going on. As I walk through the crowd of about 20 people, I spot someone sitting at one of the table. None other than Billy Stencil. I almost shouted "NIMBY" but just renewed my lease so....

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— that with the relentless normalization of everyone alone in our homes having food brought to us by dehumanized, deskilled, identity-interchangeable gig workers, literally going out to eat that same food in a restaurant, or even picking it up in person, is an almost profound act of community care

I do not understand how the affordability discourse totally ignores car dependency.

Park system is one big reason I chose to move back to the Twin Cities. We are elite!

The main Uptown attractions for suburbanites are Isles Bun & Coffee, walking around the lakes and biking the Midtown Greenway. What you would hope is that those folks find it easy enough to walk around that they stumble upon a shop or restaurant and spend more time and money.

BREAKING "...corridors that received bikeways generally remained economically stable; continued attracting businesses and customers; and in many cases improved on several economic indicators." They were safer, too. Let's get with it, Lyndale Ave, Summit Ave, every Ave. Thx, @rozyoung.bsky.social

"But the drivers would be angry if you took their parking" yes. Angry drivers who want to be able to maim and kill children for their convenience would be angry if we "took" "their" parking -- and some of them even work inside our city governments. This is why we can't have nice things.

kudos to KSTP for balancing this out. Andrea Corbin might be the most embarrassing loser in Minneapolis discourse. Which businesses on Hennepin are stoked about the new design? Where does Nico's stand? There's an opportunity for smart business owners to take the right side on this.

The giveaway that LLMs weren't ready for primetime was the entire concept of "prompt engineering." Oh you mean we have to learn a new obscure language in order to get the machine to do what we need? But if the LLM is so smart, then why does it require the user to learn the...oh nevermind.

This is the way it should be!!! A fleet of ebikes making the last mile deliveries. We don't need cars and trucks clogging every single street of our cities.

"Pedestrianize Main Street" Universal urban planning suggestion.

I did not snag a ticket but have you ever seen Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden ripped on pot cookies?

Wemby will win a minimum of 4 titles. This is Gretzky, Jordan, Tom Brady levels. I don't know. Maybe Babe Ruth.

Car dependency is such a brutal disease

the problem is that with the dual wonders of the modern age and the automobile, you can easily develop medieval peasant brain in a suburb of like 100k

I saw Rage Against the Machine at Roy Wilkins on September 15, 1996 If I snag a ticket tomorrow I think that show will be in the same league. Long odds but you never know.

Dive bars being pro driving/parking is always such a frightening thought. So they want more people to drive to their bar, drink enough to make the place profitable, then drive home with bikes mixed into traffic Seems dangerous