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transit and other nerd things
24 they/she
Twin Cities, MN
Writer and editor based in the Twin Cities, MN.
Interests: children's books, local journalism, gardening, democracy, and the extraordinary ordinary.
www.naomikrueger.com
back to start a podcast - subscribe at millcityhall.com - middle aged queer white guy in minneapolis. no presidents, no borders, no clout (ok maybe some clout?).
She/Her | @northlandsoccer.com | Member of @soccerreporters.bsky.social | #BAONPDX🌹, #FCSP ☠️, #VanRiseFC 🏔️ and #LFC Women | Lover of Pro Wrestling | Transit nerd
Minneapolitan since 2019. Working on fully assimilating by cargo biking with 2 kids and playing beer league hockey.
I make things, including bike rides, state housing laws, bread, and trouble. Quality varies with rainfall, political winds, and tire pressure. Run comms at @cayimby for the love of cities.
robin - they/he - 24 - married ⚢ 🏳️⚧️ @cinnuy.bsky.social 💍 - minneapolis - hEDS - 18+
follow me for a weird mix of politics, local interest, bus autism, tech stuff, art, and gaming
my ass is always yapping
https://linktr.ee/coffeeknife
Minnesota news. Independent + nonprofit. Free thanks to members. Listen on air, read online or follow here ❤️
📷: The Minnesota Capitol building just after sunset on a spring evening, by Brian Bakst | MPR News.
Axios Twin Cities reporter.
🚲Car-free euphonium person. 💜Asexual and somewhere in aro/gray/demi-romantic land. 🏙St. Paul, MN, US
Minneapolis-based tinkerer. Making computers do science at the University of Minnesota. Into bikes, city infrastructure, and local politics
Executive director of the Center for Building in North America (centerforbuilding.org), stephen@centerforbuilding.org. Personal account. Brooklyn, NY.
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🏙️Covering the Twin Cities built environment at the @StarTribune.bsky.social.
How's the way your city's built affecting your life?
Send tips: greta.kaul@startribune.com
Historian of race and class; Author: The March on Washington & The Tribe of Black Ulysses; Professor, University of Minnesota; President, @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social; Editor, "Up For Debate" @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
ORCHID: 0000-0001-9295-866X
Ex science teacher, current engineering PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota. Proud union member, less proud PELRA geek.
Catalysis, Canadiana, Chaos.
Intersecting community organizing, community education, and community journalism. PhD in Education. Arab-American. Best friends with @dramypsyd.rmh-therapy.com
machinist | hamline-midway | he/him | giant klutz
I'm at the friendster, I'm at the myspace, my doppelganger's at the combination facebook and twitter.
Minneapolis renter. Plural/non-binary adult (they/them pronouns) on the autistic spectrum that seeks to learn and improve each day. Wants more accessible spaces without requiring a car.
diasporic, urban-dwelling Inuk Indigiqueer woman seeking reconnection;
💍 @phoenix-rights.bsky.social
💸 V: HumanHummingbird
Cover 📸: Christian Spencer
A heap of broken images.
Still looking for life's blueprint.
I like birds, cats, drawing/painting, writing, reading, gaming, and coffee.
Sinister Minnesotan that loves it here.
I'm also a fan of Sephiroth, so things might get kinda weird at times.
🔞🏳️⚧️🚌🚲
Trans transit operator.
Cyclist.
Urbanist.
Furry.
I’m either ElainaJourney or Dottierdoughnut on everything.
A celebration of the quirks of South Minneapolis live from the boost mobile store.
Transit enthusiast, shitty graphic design fan, militant pedestrian
Wedge-based cat tour operator
Saint Paul, MN 💉🦠| 🚈🚲🚶🏾 | 🌎🌡️ | 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 | MN Aurora, MNUFC, Minnesota Frost, Minnesota Wild, Minnesota Lynx, Minnesota Twins
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“Mister, umm…Miples”?! -@aridublion
Voice of F1rst Wrestling and various other detritus. Movies, traveling, board games, bicycling, Star Wars & 007. Owns more Lego than most children.
🌎: Saint Paul, Minnesota.
https://linktr.ee/johnmaddening
He/him woodworker and zoning enthusiast of dubious intent
he/him
Minneapolis
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Empowering people to choose sustainable transportation options through educational opportunities and by reducing barriers.
(vague lyrics about history or economics) 🚰
https://linktr.ee/austwu
she/her. 612. Clone. Fat girl w/glasses. Desktop Support 💻. One of those wacky pagans 🌒🌕🌘. Dirty red socialist + Darksider🖤= Hard Left. Crazy cat lady in training🐈⬛. Scooter bitch🛵. Unionized ✊. Brony /) Lapsed chaser🌪️. 🇺🇦🇵🇸
Bikes, homes, transit, neurodiversity, and antiracism
Board Secretary @ourstreetsmn.org
Volunteer @streets.mn @moreneighbors.org
Substitute teacher, grad student, planning commissioner, engineer, wilderness first responder
sylviehymanslp.org
Advocate for transit, active travel, & safer streets for all users. Transportation and land use policy hobbyist. Pretty much done with national politics. #EndCarDependency
Politics reporter for the Minnesota Star Tribune. DM me your tips. Signal: nbminor.08
Armchair phrenologist. Self-certified body language expert. MENSA member. Former Never-Ending Pasta Pass Owner. Intellectual. Gifted kid —> Gifted adult. RIP Seattle Sea Dragons. Vai Corinthians. Bluesky’s premier Seven Mary Three poster.
Husband, father, progressive Minnesotan with his head in the clouds, trying to build a museum to reach the sky. I like dogs. I like travel.
cyber security PhD candidate, biking, transit, obscure music, and open source. Community manager for openvoiceos.com, cofounder of bsidestc.org, board member for streets.mn & producer for the podcast there.
Sr. Community Organizer at Move Minnesota | Lover of libraries, public transit, & running | Proud dog mom | Posts are my own
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Minneapolis to be born?
Minnesota Star Tribune. Your source for dumpster fires. I think you're pretty great.
Random, historic photos of Minneapolis
Reporting for a better Richfield for all. #RichfieldMN #Minnesota
We make life better without a car.
Live in 1000+ cities worldwide. Made in Montreal.
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En français svp 👉 @fr.transit.app
go.transit.app/more
Electric cargo trike for families - kids & dogs ride up front! 3 wheels for stability, electric assist so it's super easy to ride. Seats babies, big kids, big dogs, and adult passengers too. Like a minivan, but awesome!
Urbanist, bicyclist for transport, enby, parent to two kiddos. I’m a thrill-seeker - when those thrills come from completing a project.
Metro Transit is a leading transportation resource for the Twin Cities, offering an integrated network of buses, light rail and commuter trains, microtransit, as well as resources for those who carpool. https://www.metrotransit.org
Ashley! | henlo | am fox | 26 | Photographer | Minnesotan | 🇺🇲🇬🇧 | She/Her | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌹 | Married! @flameboy621.bsky.social 💍 |
https://linktr.ee/crazyash99
Unsolicitied advice is always encouraged
News from Minnesota and beyond. startribune.com
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she/her • 🚌🌃🍦• bus stuff • local politics • fact checking enthusiast • reality dating shows • swiftie • former overachiever • frequent deletions • ~views mine~
minneapolis active transpo gremlin and the world's laziest bike rider.
deputy dir at BikeMN.org
BOD member + writer at Streets.mn
free cargo bike lending library @mplscargobikelibrary.com
Nerding out over geography, weather, LEGO, politics, and photography of Minnesota's railroad and aviation scene. Chief AvGeek at @JetTip.net.
📍 Burnsville, Minnesota, US
A hyperlocal print and digital news organization covering Southwest Minneapolis.
Urbanist advocate. Policy Director at the Parking Reform Network. Writer at Strong Towns. Co-author "Escaping the Housing Trap." St. Paul, Minnesota.
author of Paved Paradise, editor of The Future of Transportation, Loeb Fellow '24, formerly of Slate
The League of American Bicyclists is leading the movement to build a Bicycle Friendly America for everyone.
|Friend of Dogs
|Science Adherent
|Environmentalist
~techie
~civil eng
|unrepentant godless liberal
|born at 323 ppm
~fermenter
|#BikeCommuter
~#carlite
~more
You may remember me from such Twitter accounts as @sdho
Biker in Minneapolis. Energy efficiency professional. Wannabe gardener.
Personal account.
Minneapolis City Council Member - 12th Ward. Hyper-local chatterbox, Pro-labor, Fmr Policy Aide, First-generation Bengali-American.
Our mission is to serve, teach, inspire and impact current and future urban professionals in our quest for actionable steps towards safe, inclusive, active mobility.
Urban planner & well-being engineer, Oulu, 🇫🇮, the winter cycling capital of the world. Welcome to our MasterClasses at http://masterclass.city ☃️ YouTube: http://youtube.com/pekkatahkola
He/him.
Transportation | Cycling | Cities | former academic | past TU Delft & MIT | 🇵🇱
www.nataliabarbour.com
Canadian Urbanist and Chief Planner for the City of Toronto 🇨🇦
twin mama, sewist, transit rider
🚌🐶🪡🧵🍵🌎😷💁🏻♀️
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Covering the movement to end car dependency and make America better for walking, biking, transit and more.
Advocacy journalism for better cities.👩🦽👨🦯🚶🚴♀️ 🚎 ⛴️ 🚊 🚆 🏙️
Based in the Seattle metro area.
Read our coverage on theurbanist.org. 📰
I like trains and walkable neighborhoods.
https://linktr.ee/thetransitguy
Advocating for a heavy rail corridor in the I-94 freeway trench; connecting Target Field to Union Depot; and unifying Twin Cities regional networks
Website: https://i94railcoalition.neocities.org
Discord: https://discord.gg/zy85aDYDJg
Interested in sustainable transport, urban planning and the state of the world. Working in international development cooperation.
A focus on city planning,transit planning and sustainability!
“Train good and car bad!”
Planner and writer. Author RIGHT OF WAY. Traffic safety nerd. Mom of two. Working on a new book about child-friendly neighborhoods.
Urban Planner | Transport Analyst | Focused on Sustainable Mobility
Sociologist/demographer specializing in mortality, racial inequity, Covid-19. Avid theater-goer, inconsistent powerlifter, and erstwhile operator of an all-volunteer bookstore. Preschool parent. Living not-quite-car-free in Minneapolis. she/her
Launching the CIMBY (Courtyard In My Backyard) movement in North America, starting in Chicago.
Thinktanking on housing + democracy + clean energy
Opinions—all mine. Or yours, recycled—as also mine. Zero endorsements here.
#Housing #affordability talking points galore
🏘️🎯➡️ https://www.sightline.org/the-pro-homes-messaging-toolkit/
#Parking feed ⬇️
Active travel enthusiast, mobility impaired, enjoy outdoors, making stuff, reading, games, music
I work for Wheels for Wellbeing - all views here are my own
A disabled people’s cycling organisation campaigning for equity in cycling, #ActiveTravel, multimodal journeys, and mobility justice. #BeyondTheBicycle
Find out about our work at www.WheelsForWellbeing.org.uk
Mexican-American architect, attorney, GW Law professor, National Zoning Atlas/Preservation Atlas founder, "Key to the City" author, preservationist, 7th-generation Texan, mother of 3. https://wwnorton.com/books/key-to-the-city
Community geographer, cartographer, pedestrian, cyclist. Author of "The New American Small Town: Lessons for sustainable urban futures" (West Virginia University Press, June 2025). https://communitygeography.kent.edu/
Journalist, author of Potholes and Pavements, cohost of @podstreetsahead.bsky.social
https://lauralaker.substack.com
Nebraska Always.
@StanfordLaw alum. Fighting racism, poverty & injustice. @UCLA Urban planning PhD. Mobility justice & dignity all day. All tweets/views my own.
Author of THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS, "brilliant and alarming" (Booklist), "deeply researched...eye-opening, urgent" (Kirkus). Now on sale http://bit.ly/3AsDJUw
🏙️🚶🏾♂️🚍🚏🚇🚲💪🏾🏳️🌈 (He/Him) Queer Urbanist - Transit Professional - Transit Nerd - Community Connector
Interests: Cities, Cycling, Walking, Architecture, Museums, Performing Arts, Trains, Buses, People
All views are mine.
https://www.instagram.com/jahorne
Transport-Equity-Resilience PhD.
Road Harm Reducer.
Villagist.
She/hers. Occasional outbursts about dogs, kids, Davidson hoops, & gardening. My opinions are mine.
Please read pinned post before following.
Peer-revieweed journal featuring original interdisciplinary research on interactions between transport and land use.
Independent & open access. Official journal of http://wstlur.org. Published by the UMN Center for Transportation Studies.
Journalist
Obsessed with housing and the ongoing disappearance of the middle class.
Co-host for the Missing Middle podcast with Mike Moffatt
Former producer for The Agenda with Steve Paikin on TVO
Bikes & transit. SEA & WA. Writes, edits, paralegals. Fmr: PeopleForBikes, WA Bike Law, Disability Mobility Initiative.
LMAO
Writing The Transit Trekker Manual, b/c it should be easier to enjoy the outdoors if you can’t drive.
@transittrekker.bsky.social
Author, When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency
Creator, #WeekWithoutDriving
Organizer, Nondrivers Alliance, nondrivers.org
Disabled parent (#nystagmus), bus lover, bike rider.
Environmental neuroscientist with the Future Cities Institute exploring the complex interactions between who we are, where we live, and how we function as a society. Speaker. Writer. Mental health advocate. Human. linktr.ee/robinmazumder
Born, raised and reside in Brooklyn.🗽CEO of Oonee. Working to make our cities better places to live. 🚲🛴👷🏾Unapologetically Woke. 📣✊🏾🫶🏾
🇺🇸🇧🇧 📍Brooklyn
Author, Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities
veronicao.com
She/Her #TransportationNerd #InclusiveTransportation 🔺🐘
Award-Winning Placemaker (25+ North American Cities). Author. Speaker. Urban Planning Adjunct Professor. Subdivided Co-Editor. Two Book Deal w/ Penguin Random House Canada. Hip Hop & a lil Punk Rock. Hopeful.
