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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 2h

There are so many popular and well-loved places that would be so much easier for so many more people to get to if they would just run frequent buses on 38th.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 2h

Won't somebody please think of the Chief Finance Officers?

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 2h

Not to mention that it connects two colleges and a high school. This street should be livelier!

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 4h

A cultural shift on walking would also probably shift more people toward transit. For many of us, being willing and able to walk a mile really opens up a lot more places one can get to on a single bus or train.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 4h

I think that's what I'm saying. Many people are willing and able to shift between different modes based on their own personal cost/benefit analysis. As more infrastructure gets built, that analysis will change. But that requires investment in infrastructure that won't immediately be fully utilized.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 5h

Oh weird. I guess the angled parking is a more efficient use of the space, but it makes it look like the main street of a dying small town. Yes; pedestrianize it. It would be a good enhancement to the existing Vibrant Storefronts initiatives.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 5h

But then you'd be taking away angled parking from all the drivers whose secret shame is that they never learned how to parallel park.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 5h

I would hope that, whatever anyone might think of cars on the Kmart site, everyone would agree that Nicollet between Lake and 35th needs some traffic calming. That is just a wide open stretch of road right now, and it shows in driver behavior. The offsets of some of the cross streets don't help.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 7h

Because the task right now is to build the infrastructure, and inevitably the car-brained will complain that they don't see enough people using the infrastructure that's being built. But if we build it well and thoughtfully enough, then we will reach a point where the dam breaks.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 7h

If anything, I think it helps transit/bike advocacy to acknowledge that most people who can afford a car won't switch modes unless and until it's more convenient and cost-effective than driving. (Which doesn't have to mean faster, but it certainly doesn't mean 500% slower.)

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 8h

Fair enough. It is a kind of RCV, sure, but I don't know if the yearbook editors know that.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 8h

Walking into Ward 5 and spreading misinformation about RCV also does real harm. This year there appear to be four serious council candidates in that ward, and people will want to fully rank their ballots. In 2021, Ward 5 had 25% of ballots exhausted for council, the highest rate in the city.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 8h

I curse every high school yearbook that ever did a "Most Likely to Succeed" vote where your first choice got three points, your second choice got two points, and your third choice got one point, because that is definitely how a lot of people assume RCV works, and that is definitely not how it works.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 8h

I'm surprised he didn't also say "females."

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 9h

It is now required to begin all posts with, "Mint Properties, which is not an adjudicated tortfeasor."

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 9h

It's insane that nobody at Gmail insisted on adding a user setting to force search to default to "Most recent," i.e., the way users were accustomed to it working for almost two decades.

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 21h

"As Executive Director of the Stevens Square Community Organization, Lydia has fought alongside neighbors to win real change from City Hall." I am once again asking if anyone can tell me anything, positive or negative, that Millard has actually done in this role she has held for more than a year.

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 1d

i've been thinking about renters and political signs. focusing on the hornig companies and right move properties here since i know they ban them, and yet hornigs were the biggest contributor to we love mpls

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Signs Don't Vote: Landlord's Money vs. Renter's Opinions

Political signs are often looked to as an early way of determining which way election results may swing, but is this really accurate when a large swath of the population is excluded from expressing th...

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yes; now that parents and the Murdoch press know about it, I assume it's basically dead.

Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 1d

Not just middle school, apparently. My second-grader was just telling me that everyone at her school says this and she finds it super annoying. (She's a contrarian.) And then my kindergartner was like, "Oh yeah! Everyone says that!"

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 2d

Frey's sad eyes in this photo are, I suppose, appropriate to the context.

Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 2d

Now where do we put a bunch of new five-over-ones?

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 2d

I think Eric Dayton already tried that via The Great Northern, which I guess is now a standalone event?

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 2d

The downballot races make for some strange bedfellows. Ward 8's biggest Millard fan (see below) is now sporting Bernstein and Brandt signs for BET.

David Brauer @dbrauer.net · Sep 4

Tell me your story, house at 36th & Pillsbury in the heart of Ward 8 with not one but 2 Lydia Millard for Ward 10 signs. Can you point to where Aisha hurt you?

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Eric Prindle @ericprindle.bsky.social · 3d

Whatever they decide to do in the winter in the future, they're going to have to change the name. At this point, their brand is "flailing."