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Cars will pass me on the parkway while I'm doing 25 mph (5 over), almost cause a head on collision, then get upset when I pass them at the stop sign ten seconds later cuz I'm not obligated to?!? What is wrong with people

Passed a cybertruck on the parkway yesterday and gleefully slowed down to 20 mph in front. Didn't have enough time to enjoy it as I ran into more traffic that I felt like skipping (nicest day in the world yesterday but everyone was driving everywhere??)

Awoo??

I'm quitting maps all together. I don't need to know where I'm going - light a cig to judge the wind, avoid headwinds and follow the good smells. 🚲

Cities will make their roads so absolutely dangerous that they have to build a bridge for non vehicles to cross and then have the nerve to bill/categorize it as pedestrian/cycling infrastructure. 😡

Rode thru downtown this evening in the 7th Street bus lane and a car yelled at us from the bus lane about not being in a bike lane 😂 they're lucky I didn't hear that

Anyone else notice the jehovah's witnesses place off Wheelock Pkwy got a locked gate and big no trespassing sign so u can't even knock on their door? lol

If u got one of these - yeah u on the list 😂

Cars are too isolating. Going 20 mph is serious and you *should* feel like you're going fast!

Living on a bike boulevard is tight cuz I was gardening out front for ten minutes and two separate friends going opposite ways rolled by within the minute and all stopped to chat. 😎

Just dropped $300 on bike parts. This will immediately service a few of my bicycles and provide ongoing maintenance support parts for several thousand miles but have fun at the gas station ☺️

Got close passed on river road while already going over the speed limit, but it was by a '60s roadster so I didn't even mind cuz I would've just fallen into the passenger seat 😂 I miss regular sized cars, huge difference versus the behemoth of your average car today (aka an SUV)

Good time to read Monkey Wrench Gang.

Was Stanley's getting a tire through their window a premonition of Michelin stars coming to Minneapolis?

Nearly 90 years later the Finns of Minneapolis transported messages and aid by bicycle near the front line of Lake Street during the winter Operation Metro Surge 💪

If you'll be marching today, remember what the penguins do and take turns on the outside to bear the brunt of the wind sometimes.

The Powderhorn Park neighborhood has been the biggest target of immigration enforcement in Minnesota. It’s home to a large immigrant community who is now struggling to pay rent. Kidnappings are on the rise because people cannot stay home. Please help us out. Link is in my bio. gofund.me/350c67697

If Circle Pines kids are protesting then it's done for - we will win.

Gee sorry your blacked out SUV with tinted windows is sometimes mistaken for feds maybe you shouldn't be driving something so menacing around the city all the time. 🙄 It's nice to know if there are six angry fascists in a literal black box near me and if I can't tell from looking then that's on you.

ICE was super heavy in Powderhorn/Phillips this morning starting around 6 AM. Try to get up a bit early and patrol the neighborhood so everyone can get to work/school safely. They were VERY quick with snatch and grabs but following / whistling / honking helped deter many more.

Interesting single stair report from MN coming out - where they did a whole lot of data analysis and comparative life safety modeling. In short, it adds substance to what we’ve been arguing: Single stair is a lot safer than two stair buildings with long hallways, and much safer than single fam

#mspcyclecast Marshall and Summit bike lanes nonexistent, compacted snow and occasional piles and parked cars. Take the lane and keep your U Lock handy.

#mspcyclecast Shepard Rd / Sam Morgan is inadvisable Go across mainland St Paul if possible. Rapidly freezing mixed slush/compacted snow conditions, quickly worsening with dropping temps.

If you want to know how not to do graffiti, read this article lol. This is what you do when you're 12 years old. 🤦‍♀️ Leave your blackbook at home when painting and catch some real tags so people have heard of you before doing an article about your toy pieces and chase story at a chill daytime spot. 😂

Finally get to nice weather where you can open your window and not have heat, humidity or wildfire smoke but the damn cop helicopter is circling over my house 😡

Need to send a robot bicycle up and down the Jackson/10th separated bike lanes in downtown St Paul that continually gets creamed by all the cars pulling out of parking garages without looking or turning across the path without yielding. They should explode just large enough to total your car.

I'm simultaneously like "biking to work is easy and nice and everyone should do it" and "wow I only made it to work ok from years of bike messenger and alley cat skillz - if I didn't get super cutty five times I would have been a pancake".

Bikes are generally very resilient to road construction / closures but good lord getting out of downtown Saint Paul is a chore.

Every major N-S street you encounter in St Paul is prioritized so cars can get to the highway. Can't find a single good E-W road where I don't get a minute long red light at every single intersection. 🙄

Remember when Saint Paul repaved Summit Ave but not the bike lanes? 😡

Twin Cities drivers currently feel *especially* oppressed, saying the war on cars has ramped up because it temporarily takes 35 minutes instead of 20 to drive across the most dense part of the largest metro area in a 400 mile radius (and might have to park 500 ft from their end location).

People who think we have actual traffic in the Twin Cities think Pizza Luce is good pizza.

MSP bike closures this summer, am I missing any??

Just seen a ~six year old riding down the bike boulevard (accompanied by parent) pulling their own trailer ❤️ 💪

Stupid helicopter flying in circles over Powderhorn/Phillips once again 👎

Lol

Fuckin boomers ruining the next hundred years for us because they'll have to spend their last ten living near an apartment building that "doesn't fit the neighborhood character".

Hey! We're the Minneapolis Cargo Bike Library. This FREE lending library is a community-run partnership between @bikemn.bsky.social, @cyclehoop.bsky.social & the Lyndale Neighborhood Association. Our goal is to expand access to cargo bikes across Minneapolis. Learn more: 1/3

Will there be a traffic study? Will the building cast shadow on existing residential? What of the trees?