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Radical localist, urbanist, ecosocialist. I love cities 🏙️, bikes 🚲, trains 🚊, and cats 🐈‍⬛. Transportation planner for safe streets & healthy equitable communities. YIMBY. Board @streets.mn Neurospicy. Ukraine➡️Minneapolis. Agender/gender apathetic. 🇺🇦🍉
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I made it to 6666 miles on my ebike and I was going 6.6 mph.

submitted 1 hour ago • 4 comments

He nails it.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1323 comments

“These results suggest that some automakers need to tweak their pedestrian automatic emergency braking systems.” Bit of an understatement wouldn’t you say?

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

If I read this correctly, Canada winning means Minnesota is now a Canadian Province.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Cargo bike people: assemble‼️

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

We still have a ways to go in repairing the harm done to our BIPOC communities, but generally speaking Minnesota is a great place to live.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

NO KINGS, ONLY TRAINS is a pretty great 2028 slogan for anyone who wants it

submitted 2 days ago • 59 comments

Calling all Urban Farmers: The City Council is considering a boulevard ordinance to legalize edible plantings and raised beds. There’s been lots of great questions and feedback on it! I’m hosting a community meeting about it on 2/24 at Sibley Park. Come ask questions & share your thoughts. 🌻 🌱

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Why would I use my car when it's so much more fun to get groceries by bike?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

20°F feels so warm after weeks of single digit and negative degrees. My face doesn't hurt outside anymore!

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

"I'm surprised more plumbers aren't yet making the switch to cargo bikes" That's Amsterdam plumber Job van Oostrum, who adds that there's "No need to worry about parking spaces, you can park right outside the door without any hassle" 👨‍🔧 AT5: www.at5.nl/artikelen/23... (Dutch) #DecadeoftheCargoBike

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

I'm proud to begin my second year serving on the @streets.mn board with some of the best people, doing important work to make our communities better.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Bicycles Deliver The Freedom That Auto Ads Promise.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Now that 47 is trying to shut down congestion pricing, Hochul is all of a sudden supportive of it?

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

I’ve never wanted to beat Wisconsin more.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

CW: violence. Fuck, this is grim.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This video reminded me of @tomflood.bsky.social’s famous quote: “Bicycles deliver the freedom that auto ads promise.”

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

It's a good idea.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Just checking: how many highly educated federal workers just got fired?

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Reporting from the Minnesota Capitol for the Fund Our Future Rally with We Make Minnesota. @agellison.bsky.social currently speaking

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/historians-p...

submitted 4 days ago • 157 comments

Maybe when it snows a bunch in Minneapolis, we can all just use the roadways, which are cleared fairly quickly. People walking, rolling, biking, & driving can all share the road traveling very slowly. It's either this or we need municipal sidewalk clearing of the Pedestrian Priority Network.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

It'd be nice to have a viable high speed rail network in north america with good local transit service right about now

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Join CM Katie Cashman for her re-election campaign launch! Let's make sure Ward 7 continues to have a progressive leader. RSVP so they have enough food for everyone (link is in the comments of the quoted post).

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Great news! This pilot will start with 5 locations and go up to a max of 42, and will run from August 2025 to July 2029. Unfortunately, right now "only locations on streets under the City's jurisdiction are being considered. Locations on County or MnDOT streets may be considered in the future."

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Update, courtesy of @fcable.bsky.social . 😣 The driver *did* hit Butter Bakery. Nicollet is already one of the highest injury streets in Mpls (despite it being a basic 2 way street w/ 25mph speed limit). I’m very concerned what’ll happen when we reopen it to cars north of Lake St.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Big box grocery store: egg shelves mostly empty, egg prices way up, buying limits. Co-op grocery store: egg shelves abundant, prices same as ever, buy as many as you like.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

We need this at community events in Minneapolis! 🚲 ❤️

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

"While reconstruction of the Hennepin-Lyndale bottleneck may not be feasible in the short term, I’d like to offer a vision of what a better future in Minneapolis transportation could be — the “turbo roundabout.”

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

We’ve hollowed out our cities, paving over their souls to serve the auto industry. What’s left is asphalt, emptiness, and a staggering loss of human scale.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

The author of this article asserts that due to safety risks ALL ebikes should be banned from protected bikelanes. This idea is terrible UNLESS we also ban all cars that pose a risk (due to size & speed above 20mph) from places people 🚶/🚲/🦽. Good compromise? I'd ride my ebike in the street then.

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

“We’re not going anywhere. What’s more: we’re expanding.” Nearly a dozen of Minnesota’s foremost experts on gender-affirming care collaborated on this beautiful op-ed in today’s Strib. No paywall.

submitted 7 days ago • 171 comments