Outrageous
26.02.2026 12:52
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Outrageous
It most certainly was.
New drive-thrus contribute comparatively little to our tax base and undermine the millions of dollars our city has spent on transit-oriented development.🚗🍔🚌
📣Join us TODAY in calling on the city council to restrict their construction near transit stops!🧵/4
www.sustainstpaul.org/news/driveth...
Wow, that sign-off is sobering.
This was only about two time-lapsed minutes of the Alex Pretti memorial ride in Minneapolis today. I'd guess there were at least 5x more people there than this, and probably significantly more than that. Absolutely mind blowing love and support showing up on bikes today.
I'll be there!
It's a small thing, but it fills me with civic pride to walk through the giant park near my house and see Hmong families having cookouts, Somali parents pushing their laughing kids on the swings.
Like, here are people who've endured horrors, and my city has welcomed them in to build peaceful lives.
From the folks who brought you North American light rail (complementary)... www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2026/zb...
Fun fact: the author is on the Board of Trustees at Gustavus, where I work. A smart guy, fun to talk to.
I’m at the launch of Oregon’s design competition for sunlight suite buildings - neighborhood-scale mulifamily buildings designed around one central staircase.
“This is one of those innovations whose time has come,” says Gil Kelley of @1000oregon.bsky.social.
Building codes and zoning codes are where cost benefit analysis goes to not just die, but be killed. In a very real way zoning codes have been written as if the real world is full of thresholds beyond which extraordinary costs are incurred for no benefit.
#stpaul: vote YES for admin citations this fall.
🗼 I arrived in Tokyo recently excited to try their legendarily efficient train system.
I left wowed by another mode of transit: its surprisingly safe streets.
Can Minnesota learn lessons from Japan’s war on traffic deaths? My reflection for @axios.com >> www.axios.com/local/twin-c...
Carve em all back in. They were always a mistake but now more than ever.
Sustain Saint Paul is also proud to endorse YES on City Question 1.
Yes on Question 1 will allow the Saint Paul to issue Administrative Citations that will enable the city to enforce its ordinances and change the behavior of bad actors without escalation to criminal courts.
📣SUSTAIN SAINT PAUL CITY ENDORSMENTS 🧵:
Sustain Saint Paul proudly endorses Mayor Melvin Carter III for Re-Election!
"I won’t stand up from a cheeseburger that I am enjoying because someone told me there’s a cheeseburger two miles down the road." 😂
St Paul DSI is in proceedings to force the demolition of the blighted CVS building at Uni/Snelling. If you are cool and you live in St Paul you will email legislativehearings@ci.stpaul.mn.us and tell them that you support requiring the demo of that building
I am still glowing from the Sibling Rivalry event last night at @blackhartstp.com. Thanks to everyone who came and donated to @sustainstpaul.bsky.social!! It's humbling to witness this groundswell of enthusiastic support for our work. The future is bright!
Still can’t believe it. Great time last night. Too bad i had to cut my material short. I had a whole bit on the Winter Carnival vs the Aquatennial. Thanks to everyone for coming out!
Full house at Black Hart for Sibling Rivalry
I love our cities 🫶 @sustainstpaul.bsky.social @moreneighbors.org @blackhartstp.com @hoopermn.bsky.social
I’ve never before been in a gay neighborhood soccer bar where everybody was chanting for an urban geographer, but I must say it’s a good time here at the @sustainstpaul.bsky.social fundraiser.
TONIGHT AT 6PM: It happens here, and it finishes here! Twin Cities enter, one City leaves.
Welcome to the THUNDERDOME!⚔️
Buy a your ticket now!
Black Hart Owner Wes Burdine says he is really excited for this meeting between Saint Paul and its absolute mess of a younger sibling, Minneapolis, who probably needs to sleep on our couch while they 'get things together.' @wesburdine.bsky.social
To help us BURY Minneapolis🏗️, we are so excited that four anonymous donors are sponsoring a $4k Matching Challenge. They've agreed to match one-time gifts of $200 or more AND recurring gifts of $10/month or more ($120/year), dollar for dollar, up to $4k! The match is active now!
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tysm for the shoutout! what's interesting about the midway is that it's arguably never been built at a pedestrian scale
in the days of yore (here, an aerial photo from ~1950) much of it was scaled to accomodate rail traffic for the streetcar barn (left) and the montgomery ward warehouse (center)
PAULIE has arrived! Mayor Carter celebrates the launch of Saint Paul’s new permitting and licensing system — designed to make it easier for residents, homeowners, and contractors to get things done. PAULIE is a cornerstone of our modernization and recovery efforts. Get started at stpaul.gov/paulie.
@cityofsaintpaul.bsky.social FYI that the link currently leads to a "404: Page Not Found" page.
What we want from transportation systems is access to stuff. Having choices about how to travel is good. Getting around safely is good. And to broaden the tent, we can’t demonize people for driving. (Really important & underdiscussed point.)
