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UnlivingMetal @unlivingmetal.bsky.social · 14h

Nope. This is one of the original LRVs for the blue line repurposed as a test train. Metro Transit has already put the new Siemens LRVs for SWLRT in revenue service so they outnumber the older bombardiers at this point.

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UnlivingMetal @unlivingmetal.bsky.social · 15h

I find it so frustrating to watch non-revenue busses make the return trip...

Having all-day all-direction service will be grand.

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UnlivingMetal @unlivingmetal.bsky.social · 18h

So glad to get these final shots before I ran out of power.

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UnlivingMetal @unlivingmetal.bsky.social · 18h

Around 3pm they turned on the overhead wires and operated the train under its own power for the first time! So cool to see the letter boards light up and the bell of the bombardier ring at Southwest Station.

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UnlivingMetal @unlivingmetal.bsky.social · 21h

Getting ready to push the light rail into the station.

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UnlivingMetal @unlivingmetal.bsky.social · 21h

The Shuttle Wagon is on its way back!

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UnlivingMetal @unlivingmetal.bsky.social · 21h

It really is! I love the name.

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UnlivingMetal @unlivingmetal.bsky.social · 21h

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UnlivingMetal @unlivingmetal.bsky.social · 23h

It's arrived! The first LRV has made it to the Southwest Station area.

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daviss @chaddavis.photography · 22h

More from today's initial light rail vehicle roll down the Southwest LRT route. Construction began in 2018 and Metro Transit says passengers will ride in 2027. Over the Kenilworth Channel, leaving W Lake St Station, arriving at W 21st St Station, exiting the Kenilworth tunnel.

light rail train over the Kenilworth Channel

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UnlivingMetal @unlivingmetal.bsky.social · 23h

It's arrived! The first LRV has made it to the Southwest Station area.

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UnlivingMetal @unlivingmetal.bsky.social · 1d

Today marks the first train pull out to Southwest Station in Eden Prairie. I'll be out taking photos as it moves along at a snails pace.

A red Shuttlewagon at the head of a single LRV consist moving along with the Green Line Extension for the very first time

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Stephen @stephen.int42.org · 24d

Hennepin Ave Bikeway is open all the way to LITT Pinball! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SQsftJ/

The Hennepin Ave S Bikeway is now open from @LITT Pinball Bar (almost Franklin) all the way to Lake St! This video goes to 26th St. #bikelife #safestreets

TikTok video by PedalByte

www.tiktok.com

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UnlivingMetal @unlivingmetal.bsky.social · Sep 10

The program gives out up to $50,000 grants to artists to fill an otherwise vacant space. The program started with a $250k budget and has been expanded to more than $1 million in the next.

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UnlivingMetal @unlivingmetal.bsky.social · Sep 10

Shout-out to @katiecashman.bsky.social for championing this program in our community.

Katie Cashman speaking at the Vibrant Storefronts event.

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UnlivingMetal @unlivingmetal.bsky.social · Sep 10

Vibrant Storefront grants are announced today! This year the program expands beyond Loring Park to uptown and downtown.

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Farming While Beige @sylvanaquafarms.bsky.social · Sep 4

THREAD: this ties into a video I did a few days ago about subsidies and their intended purpose, which is to encourage farmers into economically irrational behavior…

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · Sep 4

Really important story. The Federal Farm Policy Trap: Why Some Farmers Are Stuck Raising Crops That No Longer Thrive, with @capitolnewsil.bsky.social

The Federal Farm Policy Trap: Why Some Farmers Are Stuck Raising Crops That No Longer Thrive

Some farmers keep growing in flood- and drought-prone fields because subsidies soften the losses, while federal programs meant to help them change course have been underfunded and mired in bureaucracy...

www.propublica.org

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Aug 30

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution.
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

Average nitrogen dioxide concentration in Paris has fallen significantly

Her proposals have faced pushback — from right-leaning politicians, a car owners’ association and suburban commuters, who say that targeting cars makes their lives more difficult.

But last month, Parisians voted in a referendum to turn an additional 500 streets over to pedestrians. A year earlier, Paris had moved to sharply increase parking fees for SUVs, forcing drivers to pay three times more than they would for smaller cars. The city has also turned a bank of the Seine from a busy artery into a pedestrian zone and banned most car traffic from the shopping boulevard of Rue de Rivoli.

Carlos Moreno, a professor at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and a former adviser to the city, said the French capital has developed “an urban policy based on well-being.”

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bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · Aug 30

High-income neighborhoods think that low-income people moving in will lower property values.

Low-income neighborhoods think that high-income people moving in will raise rents.

We have a class segregation consensus.

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h jiahong pan 潘嘉宏 ☀️ @hpan3.bsky.social · Aug 25

Carver County, in conjunction with the Met Council, will expand Transit Link service to operate on weekends starting 9/6.

Looks like one will now be able to go to Baylor for their star parties, camp overnight, and come back the next day.

www.carvercountymn.gov/home/showpub...

www.carvercountymn.gov

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · Aug 24

1 of 3 bike parking lots at the MN State Fair this week:

Evidence that the Twin Cities’ investment in a network of protected bike infrastructure is paying off.

More and more people are using bikes for more and more trips.

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yeswaydrjose.bsky.social @yeswaydrjose.bsky.social · Aug 16

Hennepin County’s proposed layout for Lyndale Avenue S. falls short.

It’s not a people-first design. It’s a decorated, street-level parking lot, dusted with the occasional confetti of mode shift virtue signals.

No protected bikeways, 24/7 bus lanes, or green space throughout the entire corridor.

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