Mary Morse Marti
@MaryMorseMarti
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Transportation advocate, author, carshare founder, nonprofit gold medalist, freethinker-in-chief. Radwife.
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Ford Motor Co. made *cars* in at least two downtown highrises. I'm not sure why we're building tiny-device med-tech facilities in cornfields when both Minneapolis and Saint Paul have multiple mostly empty, vertically integrated office buildings ready and waiting for new tenants.
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Look, it has come to this: we just don't need to prioritize cars in cities anymore. We have better choices. We can limit cars to 15 mph within city limits and drivers will be fine. You with me?
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Who knows why the Mississippi keeps offering these gifts? I'm just glad to receive them. Lake Street/Marshall Ave bridge, MN, ~7:30 p.m.
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Taking a brief break from budgeting to bring you this message: if we had not dismantled our streetcar system from 1914 I would not need to be budgeting to promote transit today.
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Saying it again! Cars kill people. Cars leave people with lifelong disabling injuries. Cars bankrupt households. Cars destroy a livable climate. Cars clog our communities by demanding storage and operating space. Stop listening to the car lobby and imagine something better!
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Glassy night on the Mississippi River, somewhere between Saint Paul and Minneapolis 💖
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Hey, environmentalists. Can we please work together to determine how much walking and cycling people can reasonably achieve in order to replace driving, and do it before we take another grant to promote electric cars?
My wager: we can drop VMT in cities by 50% within five years.
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One of the best things we did at
@MoveMpls
was change the narrative from "low-wage employee" to "low-wage employer" and I wish everyone would adopt the reframe.
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"Just two cargo bikes can replace one box truck."
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@Henryz_mom
Gotta be altered muffler cars. The gunshot ones, or the explosive spitting ones.
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Once again we ask for the third consecutive summer why a helicopter is flying over our communities, seemingly without end, causing undue stress?
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A billionaire owns MN's biggest newspaper and has achieved his goal of swinging it to the right. His daughter now runs our statewide public radio network. It's a good day to subscribe to
@MNReformer
and
@SahanJournal
. Throw a few bucks to
@kfaiFMradio
, too.
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This fall view of Saint Paul and Minneapolis should be enough to make you fall in love. Have you?
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Seems we need a new organization dedicated to e-bike proliferation and advocacy and affordable financing. Should I?
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Bike lanes are not tools of oppression. That would be forcing people to own cars in order to work, eat, go to school and access health care, while poisoning their own air.
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Deeply appreciate this serious freeway-fighting coverage and above the fold placement. Looking forward to more!
@StarTribune
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Dear
@GovTimWalz
(future VP Tim Walz) I was the cargo bicyclist blowing you kisses as your motorcade traveled East on Marshall Avenue today. Haven't been that excited at a motorcade since Gorbachev came to visit 😄
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To everyone who loves the Bryant Ave bikeway, please also see the Wheelock Parkway bikeway in Saint Paul. I was just reminded how lovely it is, now with full trail connections to Stillwater. 28 miles from the Lake Street bridge via Raymond/Como/Wheelock/Gateway/Brown's Creek.
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@SecretaryPete
I'd buy an enormous fleet of electric bikes and give them away. EVERYONE will be buying electric cars, Secretary! We need to replace cars with less dangerous, less polluting vehicles, stat!
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2023 is the year to get serious about an electric bicycle for a non-kid-toting household. So, query for the experts:
➡️Do you buy a non-cargo ebike and attach a trailer when you need it?
- OR -
➡️Do you buy a cargo ebike?
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Why tf do we have flights to Eau Claire?
Sun Country's 2-year, $6.5 million contract with the Chippewa Valley Regional Airport Commission to provide flights to Eau Claire ends in November, and a rival airline is picking up the work.
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I resigned from
@MoveMpls
and lost my paid Metropass. I implore you,
@MetroTransitMN
, work with me to design an affordable universal unlimited transit pass that doesn't depend on employers and market it unrelentingly so city people like me never hesitate to choose transit first!
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I just woke up with the icy-veined realization that many US cyclists think ebikes are exclusively for weak riders.
How are we going to hit climate-protective levels of ebike adoption with that kind of abelist misperception?
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If everyone freaking out about rideshare leaving the Twin Cities would just start using transit for regular trips (it's easy and cheap) it would solve our transit problems and our rideshare problems--immediately.
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Tell the men in your life that gasoline-powered leaf blowers are uncool.
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I have friend who won't consider buying an e-bike because "they're for unfit people." They drive a car multiple times most days but using a motorized bike for these trips just doesn't compute. How do we take the fitness morality out of cycling for transportation? 🚲⚡️
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I do not want to age in place. Imagine being stuck in your dusty old house, dependent upon others for everything.
I want to age in a sexy apartment building, filled with sexy people of all ages, doors open like a college dorm, a non-stop party. Who's in my building? Are you?
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Well then,
@GovTimWalz
I'm available to lead MnDOT to bring Minnesota to the absolute front of the future of sustainable transportation.
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Not to be a giant snark, but how much deeply affordable housing/supportive SROs could a wealthy benefactor build with $75 million? (Instead of a hockey rink for college kids)
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@WedgeLIVE
Dropping Minneapolis's home grown nonprofit bikeshare was the transportation policy fail of this century.
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People of Minnesota, I have the pleasure of announcing I will have a first-round interview with the Governor's staff related to my application for MnDOT Commissioner. Thank you for your support. Let's move our people, our state and our climate forward!
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I am applying to become your next MnDOT Commissioner. I'll post my cover letter here. You probably already know my transportation priorities, but what do YOU think they should be?
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We train some of the best and brightest at the University of Minnesota. Then we send them to the steppes to work where a highlight of their day is a drive-thru Starbucks. Wouldn't we rather have them downtown?
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What would you throw at speeding drivers' cars in your neighborhood?
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We biked 57 miles today and learned that Minnesota built a billion dollar exercise trail across the St. Croix but Wisconsin won't maintain their side.
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Legit question: Are we prioritizing electric semi trucks over electrified freight rail development? Because I can't shake this rail terminal served by cargo bikes and other light EVs vision.
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With due respect, why are the deaths of people driving, walking, using wheelchairs or riding their bikes vastly less important to our community than the deaths of people living in an international conflict zone? Why aren't we marching in the streets to solve car violence?
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Another attempt to lay the failure of Minneapolis and Saint Paul downtowns on the backs of remote working people (& urbanists!) rather than on unimaginative building owners, a uniquely terrible public safety department, and a notably racist community.
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I will never know why Hennepin Ave biz owners think a safer and utterly interesting walking, shopping and dining street would tank customer access in one of the densest neighborhoods in Minneapolis. Are they happy with the current car sewer? Do they not recognize opportunity?
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When drivers complain about bicycles and we allow it to color our opinions re: the value of bike infrastructure, just know that Minneapolis's Bryant Ave bike lane is now a huge selling feature for the homes that face it. Don't let your street fall behind!
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If you live in Minneapolis and don't come to downtown Saint Paul at least 4 x/ year you just don't get it. Green Line, plenty of 46th Street Station bus transfers, the Capitol City Bikeway oooooh all the jazz venues we stole from you
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The hail is pounding the neighborhood. The thunder is deafening. Rain is coming in sheets. These frequent afternoon deluges are monsoons and we don't have them in Minnesota. Climate change is real and we're the problem. Take action.
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Minnesota e-bike rebates are likely to arrive around June. Do your shopping due diligence now and then cross your fingers that the money lasts more than 15 minutes. Every Minnesotan who wants one should have an electric bike for transportation.
Want to buy an e-bike with help from state funds? Here's what you need to know.
By
@GustavDeMars
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27 out of 30-- what, 90%? of the people arrested in Minneapolis during overnight 4th of July fireworks melees were from out of town. Who issues these invitations? (Story, Strib.)
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I posted on my neighborhood Facebook page. What a horrible mistake.
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At age 16 I became a regular bus rider.
I often biked to work starting in 1984.
Regularly staying out of cars has made me a bit wealthier over time. And, I've polluted less.
I'm proud to be a transit user. I've never equated riding a bus with failure.
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃
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Why does the Minneapolis Armory tell guests that if they use LRT to get to the venue, they "ride at your own risk?"
Nothing about the multiple inherent risks of driving.
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Please, print media everywhere, allow us to buy single articles for 50 cents with one click. Please.
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@JohnBauters
@wmata
I like you for referring to National Airport as National Airport, and not with that terrible new name it was given. Still not sure what we were celebrating with that gift of a Gipper moniker.
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So tonight I'm volunteering to lead a group of college students on an introductory bus ride! I'm so excited. What's the most important thing I should tell them? 👨💻🚍🌃
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Speechless again. I want to bike to the State Transportation Building for a meeting today, but there isn't any secured bike parking for visitors, just some racks. At. The. State. Transportation. Building.
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Hey friends! I rode an
#eBike
to two meetings on opposite ends of town, 1st South Minneapolis then downtown Saint Paul with a playtime return via the scenic Mississippi River. 20 miles. So easy (but the Summit door zone is truly scary!) Bet we could do 75% of trips this way.
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I love the
@mnstatefair
and I wish they had built an e-bike exhibit with test track and invited every
#ebike
manufacturer to bring all their models. The fair featured tons of giant pick-up trucks (de rigueur) and other ICE cars and a few EVs. What a disappointment.
#ebikes
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I've heard a lot lately from commercial real estate reps about how "24-year-olds don't want to work from their couches," so I guess they'd rather drive 52 minutes each workday to sit in an unassigned cube to type into spreadsheets and hang with the office manager.
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HERE IT IS folks! A glorious, engineering-based vision of how converting Interstate 94 through our cities can work and will deliver tremendous economic, equity, social and humane outcomes. Find your neighborhood in the renderings and take a moment to swoon.
Twin Cities Boulevard is practical, not radical.
“Reimagining I-94: A Report on Reparative Highway Alternatives & Evaluation Metrics” addresses how removing I-94 would work, what it might look like, and what the community benefits would be.
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@maxnesterak
You know who paid for the mayor's re-election and what they wanted from him in return. This is about bodies downtown spending money, building leases fulfilled, sports stadiums packed. The people of Minneapolis' health be damned, we want our pockets lined.
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Here's a MN law I'd love to see upheld. There's no obvious consequence for completely covering cars, SUVs and pickups with opaque tinted windows. As a pedestrian I can't see whether the driver sees me or anything else on the road.
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@nickhaltermpls
Aww c'mon, can't we at least try to put a nice climate-safe spin on remote work? Can't we remake downtown to be vastly more fun for Minneapolis residents instead of pandering to car commuters? Can't we let the market figure out how to thrive in the market they created? Can't we?
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Every new highway--every widening or expansion--is a climate-destroying moral abomination.
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Fire news from the west is unbearable. Still pounding the same C02 drum here: STOP driving so much, MOVE to where you can walk or bike to everything, LIMIT your pleasure and work-trips by air, EAT low on the food chain, and FFS live your life as if something/someone else matters.
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Have you noticed that there is a lot more bicoastalism happening in Saint Paul and Minneapolis? As in, a lot more people moving across the border and not making a big deal of it, a LOT more people speaking of one city or the other and using "we" about it? I think it's very good!
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The fine residents of Minneapolis are marching for equity, climate, and good government. Things people used to expect here but must now fight for.
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And one more thing. If you want to return downtown Minneapolis to vibrancy you need to rent small footprint street-front commercial spaces at very affordable rates to local owners.
That's all.
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We don't really have time to mess around with people's feelings of dependency and love for their cars and trucks. We need to remove them from our roads and highways and make space for bicycles and transit. We got ourselves into this mess. Let's get ourselves out.
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I'm trying to think of a reason I need I-94 to get me through the heart of MSP at 60 mph and at the expense of other people's lives.
Saves me 15 minutes when going on vacation?
Cuts a few minutes off a downtown commute?
Not worth it.
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98% of the reason white people can't rely on transit, walking or biking for transportation is youth sports.
(A joke)
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I call this image "the end of civilization" due to its depiction of the abrupt change between some lovely homes built when this was a commuter rail suburb and today's urban hell-road we call I-94.
#RethinkingI94
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Flashing back to a Nicollet Mall redesign meeting in 2017 where private building owners demanded that no permanent seating be placed in front of their buildings. Their open hostility to Minneapolis pedestrians and street life set me back on my heels. And look at it today.
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Personal news! I’m leaving
@MoveMpls
.❤️my team and awesome collaborators.💙the work.💛Minneapolis. Will never quit the 🚍, the🚲, the 👣 or fighting for 🏨🏩. Call if you need a leader, a writer, a strategist, a good laugh, or some good stories. See you on the other side!
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Can we please convert MSP parkways into bicycle lanes before climate takes even more from us?
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It took me a few weeks, and learning from some highway engineering experts who do this on a daily basis to understand the potential of removing the freeway. Now I'm never going back.
Transforming I-94 is not outrageous. Leaving this monstrosity in place to harm people is.
Rip out I-94 and start again? As MnDOT preps ‘Rethinking I-94’ options, a once-radical idea gains fans
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You need some good news and I have it. Here's the sign on the former Marshall Ave home of Izzy's. 🍨🍦🧊
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Anyone writing a deep or even cursory backgrounder on each member of the
@StarTribune
editorial board? Because I want to know who's swaying large parts of our electorate to make mostly very nutty decisions.
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New local multi-unit "student" housing. I love the infill and hopefully developers will start using architects someday soon.
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Look! Look! The Sri Chinmoy Bridge (Lake Street) has been restriped with a Westboud bus lane for the new B Line BRT and a double-striped bike lane. Isn't it beautiful?
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Good morning! Does anyone in Minnesota still buy bottled water, and if so, WHY
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The problem is huge, but turnstiles aren't the answer to
@MetroTransitMN
's light rail troubles because our transit system operates in a uniquely challenged racial/social/economic environment compared to those of other cities. Hear me out in 6 parts. 1/
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Was I expecting to find a beautiful wood table at a yard sale on my trip to meet a friend? No. But thanks to these wonderful Longfellow neighbors and their ball of twine, the trip home was easy, safe and secure. Love this
#cargobikelife
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Behold, the mother of all transportation efficiency infographics. Transit, walking, and biking are the clear winners in solving climate emissions, improving air quality, erasing congestion, and building equity.
@MoveMpls
@McKnightFdn
@mplsfoundation
@MetroTransitMN
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I'm a big fan of Option 1. Counterpoint: Less parking will mean more street life for Hennepin Avenue.
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I know, I know. I'm going to light the fuse of fuss by saying it, but as we watch the school bus debacle unfold, wouldn't it be great to have superbly well-funded, well-resourced, beloved neighborhood public schools within walking distance of children's homes?
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The 3M (Mary Morse Marti) 2023 Climate Challenge:
1) Drive only twice/week - or not at all
2) Eat meat only twice/week - or not at all
3) Plant four trees in your yard - or somewhere else
4) Replace I-94 with the
#twincitiesboulevard
- or tear out a highway somewhere else
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Before we reject them with typical ageist invective, let's welcome the affordability, utility and joy of electric micromobility, from these little cars to ebikes. They humanize the scale of transportation in communities.
Over the last few days I visited The Villages, FL and Peachtree City, GA -- two places where residents frequently use golf carts to get around town.
Here’s what I saw.
🧵
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First 2040, now parking minimums. Minneapolis is just blasting through the things that hold American cities back, led by the City's visionary Council President
@lisabendermpls
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I visited downtown
#Mpls
today. Took two buses, two nearly empty trains. Said "hello" to a person on the sidewalk, she said "hello" back and we both laughed at the incongruity of being the only 2 people visible within 5 blocks. It was a weird. You want a downtown revival?
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Imagine the impact if every CEO and elected official began walking, biking, or using transit. Those who claim they are too important, too busy, or are simply too inept to organize their own low-carbon lives are failing to lead in a time of crisis. Shall we call bullshit?
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Tonight, if you were a Democratic VP candidate, this was your view.
#Minnesota
#MississippiRiver
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Cities renew themselves all the time and usually that's great. But the choice to build Town Square in Saint Paul and Block E in Minneapolis ignited a "suburb feel in the city" vibe from which neither downtown has recovered.
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@the_transit_guy
@the_transit_guy
irrevocably limiting people's speeds is being done through infrastructure already (the stuff a lot of us love!) But there's no way we can rebuild every street in time to save enough lives. One more flexible measure is fine.
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If you want to follow a voice of cultural and political clarity from Minneapolis, pay attention to
@BullyCreative
. He will make you uncomfortable. Sit with it, absorb the lessons. Transform yourself.
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Following the lead of community experts and calling on
@charleszelle
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@MetCouncilNews
and
@MetroTransitMN
to eliminate fares on public transit as a pilot project through 2022. Building ridership is critical. Eliminating gasoline dependency is imperative. No downside to trying.
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Highways kill and sicken people with emissions, speed, and noise. Putting bridges on top changes nothing. Making art underneath changes nothing. Giving people no real choice to be healthy and safe is not "letting the community decide for itself." It is systemic racism at work.
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Sharing this little PSA about the effects of living near (and downstream from) highways, and reminding listeners that it's the people who live nearest those speedy and convenient traffic lanes who get to ingest the most yummy microplastics. Urban highways = death/disability.
Just when we thought microplastics couldn't get worse... they've been found in blood clots.
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I understand the budget challenge but can't help but think that free-fare transit follows school breakfast and lunch as a no-brainer mass social benefit. On climate alone!
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Think an infrastructure bill is about bigger roads? Take me to your big asphalt bosses for a little talk about the jobs we'll create when we remove freeways, construct transit corridors and bike highways, and build millions of new affordable and market rate homes.
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