'Best Bikeshare in America': An Unexpected Community Launches Free, All-Electric Micromobility For Residents — Streetsblog USA Omaha and neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa share an expansive e-bikeshare network that punches above its weight, supporters say — and now, it's free to all residents, too.

I'm so jealous.

Lime, Spin, etc are fine but SO expensive. We need a more affordable bike share system in Minneapolis.

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As an IT professional, one of my hard rules is that you never, ever do something that makes your users feel surveilled. It breaks the trust that's needed for a functional organization.

Yes! Trees! 🌳 🌲🌳

Cars move people. They also keep people at home.

For every person a car moves, how many does it stop going out?

Who is counting the second group?

(1) Frey loves the headline game more than he likes doing things
(2) His admin's treatment of the Loring Greenway playground was disgusting
(3) I too worry this will be an inaccessible cloistered amenity for suburbanites
(4) If it gets built halfway right every single parent will cry happy tears

At least to be intentional about it. It is such a quality of life improvement when something can break the wind and control snow drifts.

Picture of an ebike

"Ebikes are insanely great technology. Cheap, rugged and reliable, they're basically bicycles that abolish hills. Once you've gotten accustomed to an ebike ..you'll never go back."
The mileage is great: 625 km per $1 (390 miles).

But you can replace the buildings with parking lots.

Same here and also having really good @metrotransitmn.bsky.social and @hourcar.bsky.social access.

Oooh yes!

Summer Dj Dance Rides flyer. May 1, 6pm, Saint Paul June 1, 7pm, Minneapolis July 12, 1pm, Minneapolis August 22nd, 7pm, Saint Paul more details at https://joyfulriders.club

OUR FIRST HALF OF THE SUMMER SCHEDULE IS OUT!!!

In just under two weeks we kick off the summer DJ ride schedule with the Lowertown Bike Shop anniversary on Friday May 1st

Come down May 1st and kick off the summer with a dance ride in Saint Paul!

@joyfulridersclub.bsky.social

You know what would bring more families to want to spend more time downtown?

PUBLIC FUCKING BATHROOMS AND PLACES TO SIT

She raised concerns about her company's contracts with ICE. Then she lost her job Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products.

Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products. n.pr/3Ovl8k8

In 2025, renewables overtook coal in global electricity generation for the first time in over 100 years.

Renewables: 33.8%
Coal: 33.0%

Coal fell below a third of global electricity generation for the first time in history.

“Safe street projects used a variety of design measures. Most effective was a combination of a reduced road width and vertical treatments—like raised pavements…”

www.transport.wa.gov.au/getmedia/db3...

@reenamahajan.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social @healthtepi.bsky.social

still can’t believe that given the choice between “bountiful, free, clean energy from the earth, wind, and sun” and “poisonous dead animal sludge price sensitive to global politics” we keep choosing the latter

To be clear, the Dilley Family Detention Center, a concentration camp, would close almost immediately if the airlines put their feet down again, as they did in 2018.

Instead, the political calculus is that it's fine to detain families without due process, so long as it doesn't upset Trump.

MSP's airport authority, the MAC, met today; I, on behalf of MN50501, along with labor and faith leaders, asked the MAC to pause funding for a proposed Delta lounge, so the airline would meet with community members and discuss good corporate citizenship.

... it didn't go well 🧵👇

#Autism awareness month! Let me tell you how it went 40+ years ago when I was diagnosed.

Quiet meant stupid. It meant you didn't understand or perceive around you. That's why my father thought I needed to be euthanized: I wasn't functional.

People still think that, but the science is better now. 🧵

Transit is so desperately needed in those same towns.

advertising technology in the 1990s: look at this “website” you can “surf”. it has an image of a cat on it

advertising technology in the 2020s: you must adopt this now or die. we are going to completely kill you if you don’t download this app immediately

Evergreen reminder this 420: No one should be in prison for weed.

I used a bike rack this weekend that exists because I complained about it not existing.

You can make things better, even just a little.

If you are the sort of driver who will use your car as a threat to bully a parent w/ 2 young kids across the crosswalk faster… you shouldn’t have access to a car.

We had a walk sign & were not walking slowly. The driver stared at me impatiently & drove toward us aggressively enough …

april 19: bicycle day
april 20: WEED DAY
april 21: hazel-versary
april 22: EARTH DAY
april 23: world book day
april 24: ARBOR DAY
april 25: astronomy day

this week has everything really.

A new bike path

In the year 2026 it would be lovely if Minnesota cities could do tabled intersections on new bike paths.

Israel is expanding its genocide

Its so messed up that we can plan to spend tens of millions of dollars on an unneeded police wellness facility, and let things like this that provide direct, immediate benefits to our children and communities get defunded instead.

People with otherwise progressive beliefs will tell you that of course streets should be safe for everyone, including old people, but [the great god Motor Vehicle Traffic requires a certain amount of [other people's] blood every year and nothing can be done about it].

Mutual aid from others saved my ass & my life multiple times. So if I talk it up & boost it up, I'm like this shit worked for me when I was hanging by a thread, I know it's some folks out there hanging by a thread it's gonna help in concrete ways.