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Just a guy who likes buses. Don't take me too seriously! he/him
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Carbucks is gone! The drive-thru is now a nice patio. Big shout-out to the employees at this location for making this happen through labor action.
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Just paid my rent. This month marks two years in my place in Minneapolis. In that time, my rent has stayed the same.
Also in that time, my neighborhood has added about 670 units of housing. A further 620 are under construction.
Housing abundance is the best rent control policy.
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What's Saint Paul's most underrated building and why is it BrutalDonalds?
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Right now LA's doing something that no other US city is: they're building a subway.
It's really cool to see a place in the midst of a huge transit expansion. It will transform this city.
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From the Minnesota subreddit. I totally believe it. This is peak Minnesota
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@MillCityGirl2
@LauraGMitchell
So that's the cool thing about bikes, they're so much more space efficient than cars!
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Metro Transit is set to increase light rail service by 25% in 3 days, and no one's talking about it. This isn't a routine service change, this is a big deal, and should be advertised more!
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After riding LA's transit all week, I have some thoughts about it in comparison to the Twin Cities. These are both places in the midst of major transit expansions, with many large capital projects in various stages. But the approach taken by each place is quite different.
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Well this is just the coolest store in Minneapolis: Free Geek, a tech thrift store. Lots of trinkets old and new. Got a very nice monitor and keyboard/mouse combo for under $50! Well-specced used laptops too!
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It's been a huge year for transit in the Twin Cities! Let's run down what happened 🧵
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I'm open to "downtown sucks" discourse because it's not wrong. Not for the reasons *certain people* say it is. I don't feel unsafe downtown, I just feel bored and excluded.
It's a very hostile place, and that's on purpose. But it doesn't have to be that way.
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Minneapolis gov looked at last weekend, full of fun transit- and ped-oriented events, stretching into the night, where downtown businesses did their best since COVID, and decided "nah, we don't need to do that again".
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The Twin Cities grocery market really sucks. Cub's never very nice, Target's always out, Kowalski's and L+Bs are soo expensive, Aldi never has what you need, HyVee is scared of the city, there's just not many great options.
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Two to three years from now, on a miserably hot day like this, imagine hopping on a train...
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We should appreciate more how
@MetroTransitMN
does a really good job with providing a modern, well-designed, and dignified transit system.
What if I told you these two trains were delivered in the same year? (left: Denver, right: MSP)
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Today marks 10 years since the METRO Green Line opened to passengers! It hasn't always been an easy ride, but the Green Line is nevertheless one of the most successful modern transit investments in the country.
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@sunnydelight
@tacobell
Uh oh. You're about to learn the lesson that many companies have learned: you don't piss off Minnesotans on the internet
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Shout out to Minnesota for making voting easy. I got my two sisters (who've never voted before) to come along and they were able to register no problem. Can't do that in most states! Let's keep it that way, go vote today, Minnesota!
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Surface light rail doesn't have to be slow! Here's the Green Line hitting 50 mph/80 km/h between Raymond Ave and Fairview Ave stations.
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This is the current network of Metro Transit routes with sub-15 minute frequencies on weekdays, and here's how it will expand in August:
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People: "don't go to Cedar-Riverside at night and definitely don't go on the light rail!!!"
Cedar-Riverside and the light rail at night:
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New curb and gutter in on Hennepin Ave E. Can really see how much narrower this street is getting.
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Great article. Take the train! I promise you it's not that scary. Scariest thing you might encounter is not knowing whether or not to push the round blue button located near the center of the door...
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Announced publicly in the Connect newsletter today: Metro Transit is beginning to require senior staff to ride transit, as part of their performance reviews.
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So much discussion on here about the Spruce Tree Center, where's the love for this gem?
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20 years ago today, the Hiawatha Light Rail line began passenger service between Fort Snelling and Warehouse District/Hennepin Ave stations. We now know it as the Blue Line. The Blue Line's story has been one of strategic, ongoing investments and continuous improvements:
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No reason for a Summit Ave house to have sidewalks looking like this
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Re: Metro Transit and Taylor Swift, I hope the takeaway for folks will be that you need to care about public services. Support them by using them, advocate for investment, and vote accordingly. If you don't, don't be surprised when you need them and they're not there for you.
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Riding LA's newest light rail line, the K Line. Interesting how they use faregates on an at-grade line.
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What could our transit system look like if all these folks used it every day?
And that's a wrap. Thank you to everyone who rode with us this evening. We'll see you again tomorrow!
#MinneapolisTSTheErasTour
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MnDOT's Duluth interchange project is delayed a year, but this is how the Strib covers it. Compare to what they might say for a transit project delay.
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In the whole $50 downtown-to-downtown Uber discussion, I think it's important to note that Metro Transit's Route 94 can do that for $3.25.
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I don't vote DFL for them to turn around and do GOP things. Support light rail, kill this amendment, and help us actually improve transit.
Minnesota passed a historic regional sales last year for Twin Cities transit and transportation projects. Now the DFL transportation committee chairs don't want any of it used for light rail construction.
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7am in Prospect Park.
@MetroTransitMN
does not mess around. Trains on time and the station has already been cleared. Best way to get around on a day like today!
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Metro Transit generally needs to celebrate itself more. They run an anomalously successful light rail system, a nation-leading BRT program, a high-quality bus system, and have an ambitious capital plan. Does the average Twin Cities resident know about any of these? Probably not!
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Just your regular reminder of how thoroughly successful light rail in the Twin Cities is. It's the fourth-highest ridership-per-mile system in the nation. And that's before the 25% service increase that will begin this Saturday!
🚨CORRECTION🚨
- Forgot Minneapolis, their number is 2069
- Houston is actually 1815 (still impressive)
- I posted a correction with the wrong map still 🤦🏾♂️
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I know I probably say this every Tuesday, but I'm so bullish on the E Line. It's just such a slam-dunk routing and it'll have significant bus lanes, and will improve frequency to every 10 minutes on the whole route (the non-Hennepin parts of Route 6 are only half-hourly)
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LA has big ambitions and is planning to achieve them, regardless of cost and time. It's easy to see where this push comes from - everyone knows about LA's traffic and air quality woes.
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The River Line, a very strange diesel-powered light rail in Camden, New Jersey
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More devastating transit cuts due to the driver shortage. This is a crisis, when will our elected officials respond?
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Hard to overstate how consequential Mark Dayton's 2,000-vote win in 2010 has been for the trajectory of Minnesota.
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Ope, I don't think it's suppose to look like that...
The train's pantograph collapsed, apparently quite dramatically, just north of US Bank Stadium station. Smelled strongly of burning, train is being evacuated. Don't expect any LRT service downtown anytime soon...
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Here's the first reverse-commute Northstar trip to operate since 2020!
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Yesterday, Blue Line Extension staff shared with the Metropolitan Council a new visualization of the proposal in Robbinsdale
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I usually don't engage with this kind of response, but just gotta say, can you imagine having this much time to write this? Go play in the snow or something, smh
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The Twin Cities, with much lighter traffic and a small, slow-growing urban core, is pursuing a much more restrained expansion, with comparatively minor cost overruns and delays that nevertheless become top headlines.
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I love my neighborhood. I'm steps from a frequent rail line, close to buses, a block from a grocery store, and just 2 stops from a major university. We have parks, a great bike trail, and a growing number of restaurants. It's a vibrant and safe area.
My rent is three digits.
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The only time Minneapolis is a dystopian ghost city is 4th of July weekend when everyone goes up North.
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In the Twin Cities, we've planned our system line-by-line, often with little regard for what may come next. For example, see how the Riverview project is planning to rebuild the MOA section of the Blue Line to fit the new line.
What if we'd anticipated this need at the start?
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Every so often I remember that we call it a "parking ramp" and no other state says that and it's just kinda funny and I laugh for a little.
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Omg, the e-ink bus time thing! It works!
I caught it mid-refresh but both screens appeared to be working and updated.
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In LA, there's a lot of pieces of the system that are clearly built not for now, but for far in the future. These are things like the underground LRT terminal at 7th St/Metro Center, which was then used as the start of the Regional Connector tunnel.
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Favorite
#mnleg
line of the week, from
@RepAishaGomez
(South Minneapolis) talking about Rep. Dave Lislegard (Iron Range)
"There's probably more people in our two districts who like to drink Hamm's, wear Carhartt, and weld things than anywhere else in the state"
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A few of the many building-integrated bus stops in downtown Minneapolis
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There were no major safety incidents downtown last weekend. Hotel occupancy was at a record. So was transit ridership. It was, by all accounts, an amazing success. Why would we do a 180 and essentially tell people not to come downtown?
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Oof. Major new transit cuts. 18 going down to every 12 minutes, 10 down to every 15. 515 to every 30. The 6 losing a branch and 6U every 30 minutes.
This is devastating. I wish our electeds would treat the driver shortage as the emergency it is.
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@jaydenatlanta
Of course! I was raised here in Saint Paul and I would have no qualms about bringing up a kid here if I was to have one. It's a great city for families.
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One person in one car delays potentially hundreds of transit riders on Washington Avenue
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Saint Paul did a darned good job for Christmas this year. Keep up this energy and we'll have a fun, bustling downtown!
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This is disgusting. Let's never be like this, Twin Cities.
Good evening, Twitter! I’m spending my Friday night in the affluent Bay Area suburb of Millbrae, where the county is presenting a plan to turn a hotel into ~100 homes for unhoused residents.
It appears that the entire city is here, and they are *pissed*. 🧵
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The ice bar was pretty boring, so enjoy these transit photos instead
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Every year for the State Fair, Como Avenue is restriped to remove the bike lane and add an extra drive lane. But we can't add temporary bus lanes on Snelling Avenue?
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My and my freak friends on the way to destroy the city 👇
You and your freak friends, gang bangers, leftist lunatics and other Democrats have destroyed the city many of us grew up in and loved.
Saying it is clean and safe and people are flocking downtown is either a lie, or you are an absurd fool.
Anyone and everyone with half a
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We shouldn't let the media and the loudest anti-transit activists set the narrative. Metro Transit is overwhelmingly a safe, efficient, and well-used system.
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Remember that video of Swifties on MARTA? Well I got a similar one, Beyoncé fans on Metro Transit!
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Really loving the start of this new era of transit in the Twin Cities
Hey, Vikings fans! Metro Transit has added a second southbound Northstar trip to Target Field for Monday night games. Check out the schedule at
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Yeah.
(By no means am I saying there's not an issue with behavior on transit. I'm saying it's not productive to parachute in journalists and admire the issue. Talk to daily riders like these, and yes, talk to people causing the issues. They're people too.)
@TomBasgen
I am once again inviting any media or politico to come with me on my daily light rail commute...if you can fit on the train amidst all the people!
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