Walking and biking for transportation. Prioritize streets for vulnerable users. Be the traffic you want.
Loring Park, Minneapolis, Mn USA
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Mike π² π MPLS, Mn USA
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Something that is frustrating about living in a dense walkable neighborhood in the US is that the students at the public schools perform far below grade level,
Then all the high income families move out of your neighborhood when their kids are school age
All I want is an affordable private school downtown. We have one near dt, but it's $40k a year. Excellent private schools 5-6 miles away are $5-7k a year.
πππππ πΆππππππ πYou can read all about it in my latest Straphanger dispatch:
https://straphanger.substack.com/p/canadas-best-transit-metropolis
469 people are going to be slaughtered by cars this holiday weekend in the US. Tens of thousands permanently injured.
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Office is playing hard ball, had to relinquish my cubicle since I'm not willing to go in 4+ days a week
Love carrying compressed gas on my bike #cycling #minneapolis
They asked me if I needed a cart to take my pickup order to my car, nah I have my large bicycle #cycling
Sing along social bike ride organized by Perennial Cycle in #minneapolis #cycling
People think Americans are all car dependent, but for a lot of people it's a choice #transportation #urbanism #yards