Disco didn't die, it just got more frequent and had all door boarding?

Admirable digging for trivia

Bold claim: Seattle. It was already good in 2010, but it’s now thriving in a way that I’m not sure any big city has since the 1920s.

And I vaguely remember a @nerd4cities.bsky.social piece about how it has seen the largest recent increase in non-car commuting of any city.

This seems positive. But the weirdness of the initial plan does feel like it came from them trying to do everything. Like, I'm not sure it's possible to better separate people walking and biking, provide a transit advantage, and preserve parking and trees.

I mean fair enough, though that’s not what the screenshot above says.

Have to say it’s a little concerning that bus drivers hate the lanes. Although it’s obviously true that car drivers are terrible with them, the lanes on the B-Line speed up the bus a LOT. They work.

Is there a large StP Fenelon contingent?

I’m newish to Minneapolis, but I feel like the twin cities function essentially as one city and I’ll admit I don’t totally understand why people think they’re so different.

That being said, I rarely miss a chance to jokingly refer to St. Paul as our largest suburb

But I think you’re right it’s a decline in child pedestrians.

Decent point, but note that the child trend only contrasts with the adult trend for the last 15 years, not the last 50.

Instead of making the neighborhood on the right safe, we brought kids to the neighborhood on the left

Simple explanation is that helicopter parents don't let their kids roam the neighborhood anymore, but I'm not sure that's it.

Or if anything that's downstream of the fact that kids increasingly grow up in places where you can't walk, must be driven everywhere, and have no real neighborhood to roam.

Count me in the side of ‘Minneapolis is not abnormal in this regard.’ What I think might be going on is that we experience parts of Minneapolis with bad behavior but don’t always experience those parts of cities we’re visiting.

I kind of buy the @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social explanation that they essentially stopped enforcing this stuff a number of years ago and drivers eventually caught on.

You mean gorgeous sunny days walking across a frozen lake? 😀

West Bank is Best Bank

Definitely some on the margins close ones, but UW is probably the closest

But I appreciate the notion that we should be transparent in our advocacy, so it's a tough one.

I think it's not even that the phrase would be used in bad faith, it's that transit does not even register as an option for many people. So the time tax could be a reason we should make sure everyone can afford a car.

(Vaguely remembering a story about a guy in Detroit who got a GoFundMe car.)