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Mar 3, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
At the Minnesota Transportation Conference, heard about #visionzero from @EthanFawley from the City of Minneapolis and MnDOT's safety engineer. Mpls is making rapid improvements to dangerous corridors, announcing new speed limits next week, and studying automated enforcement. ImageImageImage
New session on safe design in urban contexts.

"I despise four-lane undivided roads. They're the worst performing roads in the state, and the worst performing roads in Ramsey County." My man Ramsey County engineer Brad Estochen
"In the future, I'd be proud to say that Ramsey County has no four-lane undivided roads. We'll see if we get there, but that's what we're striving for."

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Sep 26, 2020
So I've been thinking about what's wrong with this @AsteadWesley article about police politics in Minneapolis. nytimes.com/2020/09/26/us/…
He says it's about an idealistic city council running into the "legislative process" and "public opposition." The real story is of a progressive city council super-majority, trying to do the right and popular thing, and unelected appointees of appointees blocking democracy.
In 2015, a Minneapolis police officer shot and killed Jamar Clark, and thousands of residents, including first-term council member Lisa Bender, protested outside the Fourth Precinct. Council President Barb Johnson scolded them. minnpost.com/politics-polic…
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Sep 4, 2020
Golf lost $1.3M in 2019, $1.2M in 2018, $2M in 2017, and $2M in 2016. Maybe golf will pull its weight this year! minneapolisparks.org/about_us/budge… ImageImageImageImage
"The point of public golf courses isn't to make a profit"

obviously! the point is to take money from the people who rent boats and bikes and eat at restaurant/concessions and give that money to an older, whiter, richer crowd
If the foe is public golf courses, I will absolutely join forces with people who hate to pay for parking. Don't think for a second that I won't. I have 𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔬𝔩𝔳𝔢
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Aug 31, 2020
I worry that closing the racial gap in homeownership, without fixing segregation and property tax assessment first, would be ineffective or counterproductive as a way to build Black wealth ImageImageImage
Links to sources: brookings.edu/research/deval…
americanprogress.org/issues/economy…
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Aug 16, 2020
I recall some dopey 22-year-old named like Tanner or Carter with like 10k following his "NEOLIB3RAL" account spastically gushing about how Ben Carson was a YIMBY. Wonder what he's up to now. Hopefully not in any position that requires critical thinking or judgment Image
Haha Image
"crime and chaos"
"Radical social engineering"
"Stack-and-pack"
Suburbs "grow organically"

They fit all the dumb tropes into 700 words! You have to recognize the impressive economy of language. ImageImageImage
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Aug 13, 2020
Happy to hear in today's Mpls Housing Advisory Committee meeting about the work starting to legalize single room occupancy housing. I volunteered to meet with city staff to give input. lims.minneapolismn.gov/File/2020-00703
Single room occupancy (or rooming houses, or residential hotels) is a vital form of housing that can let people who would otherwise be sleeping outside have more privacy, security, and dignity (and would just be a good fit for others, too).
SROs were vital parts of American cities through WWII, then SROs were destroyed by urban renewal projects in the '50s and '60s. Around the same time, cities rewrote zoning codes to ban them. This was downtown Minneapolis: ImageImage
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Jul 2, 2020
Everyone's feelings are valid, but I think there's a widespread anxiety about culturally catastrophic capital rushing into poor neighborhoods when the much more likely future is just payday loans, vape shops, and vacancy as far as you can see. I'm worried about that, too Image
I'm trying to process "the area, which survived the construction of Interstate 94 and the Green Line"

maybe 46% complete
m.startribune.com/from-building-…
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