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Abner Uribe is the first Abner to pitch in a World Series game since 1917

Metro Transit Operator Adam Best is a familiar face to kids at Kinderberry in St. Paul, always waving as he drives by. Now, he’s back to bring more smiles, trading his bus route for story time with “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!” 🚍

One of the great "what-ifs" of the past decade is "what if Minnesota United just kept one of the best pure goalscorers in league history, played him 2500 minutes a year and just built out the team behind him?"

New research on Chicago's speed safety cameras. 🔹 They're generally sited in places with lots of kids and a history of crashes. That's good! 🔹 No link btw race and camera placement 🔹 Cameras were less likely to be sited in poor communities, leaving residents at greater risk doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

Dodgers are having a tough time getting 90 feet from third to home because the city is so unfriendly to pedestrians 😞

All the other tourists outside the Art Institute of Chicago: taking photos of the lion sculptures Me: taking photos of the new Michigan Avenue bus lane

I know I'm a broken record on this, but one part of what is going on is that people have literally no idea what the US immigration system actually is; effectively, that there are no pathways into the country legally for someone who wants to wait in line.

I'm trying a new thing: Automatically posting updates when new transit lines open around the world. Follow @thetransportpolitic.com if you want to know when new transit lines open around the world.

The CTA has unveiled a 1950s neon-style sign at a revamped Blue Line stop. buff.ly/5Ifslf9

Trolleybuses: all those ugly overhead wires interfering with the aesthetics of neighborhoods, am I right? 🚎🍁🏡 (Photo source: TransLink BC, Vancouver’s regional transit provider)

NYC is opening 160 car-free (but treat-filled) streets and plazas to enjoy fun and safe fall festivities this spooky season. Find one near you at nyc.gov/trickorstreets.

The Wuppertal Schwebebahn is real and it is my friend: defector.com/the-wupperta...

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo put her vision for the city like this: "A city where you can get let go of your child's hand"

Halloween is coming. You don’t have to go to a “trunk-or-treat” event in Seattle! You can close your neighborhood street to through-traffic – for free! Trick-or-Streets permits are free and easy to get. Join here: seattle.gov/transportation/trick-or-streets

Love to see the New Nicollet nearing completion. (Former K Mart site). Best part is definitely going to be how the 18 bus route will speed up without having to detour.

Calling downtown commuters! We’re celebrating Transit to Work Day this Wednesday, Sept. 30 from 7-9 a.m. Enjoy free coffee and donuts, weigh in on local transit, and grab a selfie with Metro Transit’s mascot, Skip Traffic. See you near the giant wind turbine blade at Nicollet Mall & S 5th St.

Did you know: cities used to have balloons that would just follow children to school, until General Motors bought all the balloons and scrapped them

We are excited to welcome you onboard the extension of the METRO Green Line beginning June 12, 2027! To learn more visit www.metrotransit.org/green-line

It's Saturday's #BlueSkyArtShow and the theme is #Lights. Presidio Trolleybus Depot (San Francisco, California, December 2016)

The new route extension will include 16 stations from Target Field in Minneapolis to Eden Prairie, including stops in St. Louis Park, Hopkins and Minnetonka.

I didn’t attend climate week but: 1—US is falling way behind on electrification 2—even if US electrified, electricity generation isn’t decarbonizing fast enough 3—public incentives & land use policy are still vastly weighted toward inefficient cars & trucks 4—transit ridership remains in crisis

"Even by the lax standards of the United States, where automobile companies go for decades with minimum government guardrails, the automated vehicle industry has been a brazen example of the dangers of libertarian capitalism," writes Bill Lindeke in this week's Cityscape column.

NEXT WEDNESDAY: @minneapolismn.gov, @metrotransitmn.bsky.social, and MVTA are celebrating Transit to Work Day in downtown Minneapolis! Stop by 5th and Nicollet between 7-9 am for coffee, donuts, stickers, and more!

As the climate scientist Wally Broecker memorably put it, "the climate is an angry beast and we are poking it with sticks". The more we push the climate system past where its been for the past few million years, the bigger the risks of larger changes becomes.

This has been a big summer for our BRT lines, with record-setting monthly ridership on the Gold Line, Orange Line, and E Line. The B Line and D Line also had their second-busiest months ever this summer. Thank you for riding with us!

I love this slide. I really don't think the geopolitical implications of the clean energy transition have sunk in for most people.

Pretty cool-sounding bakery will fill the former Sun Street Breads space later this fall. Former Rustica head baker. mspmag.com/eat-and-drin...

Do that 3 more times, Tomas. #MNUFC

It’s that time again

I’m not sure I’ve ever been on a bus with 6 other active @transit.app users. A whole group of sad MNUFC fans making sure that the location of this 94 is well-established.

My mind at the State Fair:

We're just hurtling toward immense destruction & suffering & the entire US political class has agreed it's better not to talk about it. "Insanity" barely covers it.

We have lost one of the 20th century's most important voices for ecological sanity. Wendell Berry, RIP.

During the State Fair, everybody bikes in St. Paul

Tadej Pogačar abandons the Vuelta a España after crash on stage 8 www.cyclingnews.com/pro-cycling/...

I rode along with some TRIPs agents, and wrote about the light rail fare checking/vibe shift efforts. Check it out: www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...

Thank you, Dolly. You made an impact on this spinning ball. I shall deal with your passing with humour as I am British and that's what we do. #Dolly #RIPDolly

Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.

IT'S FLASHY. IT'S CHEEKY. IT'S JOAQUÍN WITH THE RABONA.

update: hype train on a siding and waiting for a freight train to pass, curse these freight train priority rules

www.bbc.com/news/article... Another reason to embrace electrification - healthier children.

6-year-olds are fun because they ask you questions like “What was the most recent disaster?”

That’s 3 assists in ~25 minutes for Caldeira all to Pereyra… seems like that combination is working at least.

MLS needs to shift the league schedule to "alternate timeline where we jail big oil execs and get serious about addressing global warming in the 1990s."

Notice something different? METRO station displays on bus rapid transit lines now show predicted departure times and the locations of approaching buses. The “Show My Bus” feature launched systemwide this week after a successful State Fair pilot last year.

superb work from @nerd4cities.bsky.social youtu.be/J1qNbIbD4ro?...