The 15-minute city is often presented as convenience. It is, in fact, about access.
Access to jobs, services, and opportunity, especially for those who have the least.
If inclusion is not at the core, proximity alone is not progress.
Thank you UN-Habitat for sharing this image
related, @stinamo.bsky.social shares this needed info about major shutdowns upcoming. note: Green Line downtown Mpls included in the big summer shutdown!
www.metrotransit.org/track-signals
MSP Light rail riders: keep this link handy but hidden in the months-long Blue Line shutdown is that Green Line will not run downtown Mpls from end of June to end of July!
1) don’t worry about the fare, since you have tapped on LRT
2) for E Line like all BRT, ridership is counted automatically on each door, not by fares paid (or transfers)
3) seems like a glitch
lingering: street life, atmosphere, crowds. good.
loitering: being somewhere without purpose or permission. bad to illegal.
who gets to hang around on Nicollet Mall?
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Is there a full calendar of these LRT shutdowns for this year posted anywhere public?
Attn Loons fans for the 4/25 home game: buses will replace Green Line trains www.metrotransit.org/buses-will-r...
Happy tax day to all who observe!
I wrote about Governor Walz throwing transit funding under the bus with his recent budget request. www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...
anti-democratic but primarily about changes to Nicollet Mall that wouldn’t survive a vote. bad in theory and in practice!
the decline of minneapolis began when people moved elsewhere and decided they should still be in charge of the city
Opinion | Minneapolis didn’t decline overnight It happened gradually, then suddenly. By Matt Hemsley Guest contributor(s) to the Minnesota Star Tribune
Matt Hemsley is an institutional investor based in downtown Minneapolis and a lifelong resident of the Twin Cities.
i don’t have the energy to hate read this today but… <goose meme> which Twin City motherfucker?!
you know how some folks are after they get a feature in the paper www.startribune.com/its-foxes-ve...
oh! yes the validator will say “Transfer” and not deduct any further $ if within 2.5h of original boarding
Lepidopteraphobia
“needed to” no, as fare inspection would see valid trip. but helpful for MT data and even for personal record keeping- some people love tracking their own use which you can get using card #
data quirk: Metro Transit will record that second boarding as a transfer
The other great thing about NASA is it shows what highly competent state capacity looks like. Clear communication, doing hard stuff, a diverse staff that looks like America.
$2 for as many trips as you can make in 2.5 hrs! easily a round trip errand
This upcoming Nicollet transit investment is another (of many) reasons to reconsider Mayor Frey’s attempt to remove transit from Nicollet Mall for a pedestrian only space.
Nicollet IS the spine of our city 🚎.
He could instead, pedestrianize some blocks of 1st Ave N, set to be reconstructed soon.
I feel like this is an omen for 2028 😬 @lamaterial.bsky.social
Frey’s priorities: cops, capitalists, and commuters. truly the Mayor for people who live elsewhere
Blue Line service advisory: No train service between Franklin and Fort Snelling stations until further notice due to non-transit related collision. We are working on replacement bus service. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your patience while we work to resolve the issue. -JN
The DC Metro
Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi.
The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.
live closer
Wrote about attending a World Cup event and getting mad all over again that this country has chosen to be hostile to the celebration of diversity and cultures that saves the sport from being just a pure money exercise
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Build baby build? Housing submarkets and the effects of new construction on existing rents Anthony Damiano and Chris Frenier aUniversity of Minnesota; bHealth Care Cost Institute ABSTRACT There is vigorous debate among scholars, and activists about the role that new market-rate apartments play in alleviating housing affordability issues at the neighborhood level. This study evaluates how new large (>50 units) market-rate apartment buildings affect rents in nearby buildings. In contrast to other recent work, we posit that the effects of new construction may vary by the quality of existing housing. We test this hypothesis by using a panel of building-level rents from Minneapolis, Minnesota, observed between 2000 and 2018. While we find no effect of new high-end housing on the market overall, we find countervailing effects of new construction on different parts of the rental market when broken out separately. We find that lower-priced rental housing close to new construction had rents 4.4% higher than those in other low-quality buildings farther away in the first 5 years after new construction. In contrast, we find that new construction had the opposite effect on higher-priced housing: rents were 1.7% lower near new construction. This study reiterates the importance of housing submarket theory and how focusing solely on average effects of housing interventions may miss important and nuanced effects across different parts of the market.
Newly published housing research! We find that the effects of new construction on rents varies by the quality of the existing housing. In the first 5 years rents went up 4.4% near low quality buildings and went down 1.7% near high quality buildings (1/x) 🧵
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
if the trade is, facilitate Waymo and ban private cars to build ADUs instead of garages, I’ll take that deal! let me know when that bill is in committee
supporting data for: ridehail is a damaging competitor with transit, not in ridership but in federal funding