@nicholeaileen It’s different when you’re married. It took us several years, but my wife and I started sharing each other’s location b/c we got tired of texting each other “where are you?”
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Adam Froehlig
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Adam Froehlig
@ajfroggie
Transportation geek. GIS geek. Retired Navy weathergeek. Native Minnesotan, former DC-area resident, now in the NEK of VT. LSC '18 grad.
The beautiful Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. Beigetreten Ocak 2010
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Wait. People do this? Literally ZERO people ever know where I am at any given time. As it should be. TF is wrong with you people?!
mads campbell@martyrdison
i once dated someone and we got into a playful argument about why they wouldn’t share location “i’m a very private person, this feels like it’s moving too fast, that’s a big step” months later, after it didn’t work out, we were friends and i said “ok i need your location for logistics” he admitted the real reason he wouldn’t share it was because he never left the house and didn’t want anyone to see
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@sdho @edinacivic Yep…can tell just by that GMSV view that it doesn’t meet ADA.
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@edinacivic I remember when they reluctantly installed this “sidewalk” from One Southdale only after the city’s insistence. This is a deeply unpleasant experience to use, and likely not even ADA minimum.
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I like this thoughtful stepping stone pathway cutting across the grass at One Southdale Place. But then you have to walk the length of a football field across the parking lot to reach the entrance of Kowalski's Market.
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March PTO purge continues 😅 where do y’all think I’m going this time?!
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@aaron_renn I feel this map underrepresents the level of wood being used in northern New England.
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Probably significantly underestimates propane. Many of the “natural gas” counties are very rural and have very limited or no natural gas distribution lines.
John Bistline@JEBistline
New England heats with fuel oil. The Southeast heats with electricity. The Midwest heats with natural gas. Same country, completely different energy systems. Every county in one map:
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@sdho I’d agree in principle, but in this particular case it looks like there are wetlands on the “direct path” between the westbound off-ramp and 60th.
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This is what I see more — rather than following the shortest path, the sidewalk bows to follow the curb line. For a cyclist on this, it involves a sharp, 90° turn, and makes it hard to see of vehicles in the roundabout are actually stopping.
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Into this sidewalk design at Marystown Road off the US 169 Shakopee Bypass.
Most roundabout designers tend to put sidewalks following curb lines, even when there's plenty of available space. This makes peds walk farther and hurts clear sight lines. This is better IMO:
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@ajfroggie @MnDOT We paid extra - and agreed to maintain - to get ped lights on the bridges, but the contractor determined high shoebox fixtures provide substantially the same function, so they swapped those in.
So we paid local dollars to get non-decorative decorative bridge lighting.
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If you drive around Richfield and Bloomington, you've probably noticed the closure of 494 this weekend! This was demolition of the 12th Ave bridge.
It's being replaced alongside Nicollet this summer. Both structures will have about 3x width increase in sidewalk size.
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@aaron_renn @wil_da_beast630 The popularity of the Borealis suggests that despite the disconnect between Midwest metros you imply, there’s still demand for rail between them.
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@wil_da_beast630 Not really. The cities of the Midwest don’t really interact all that much whereas the cities on the NEC do.
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Random reminder that the Great Lakes Metroplex is far bigger than the Bos-NY-Wash.
It takes a few of our cites to match NYC/Manhattan and her suburbs, but people from Chicago or Toronto are always a bit bemused when residents of Boston and similar chilly villages start critiquing "flyover land."
Steve (Michigan) 🇺🇲@steve78333
The Great Lakes mega-region of 60 million people has a population density similar to France. This is a ideal region to build a robust rail network, with hourly trains between cities.
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These layouts are what I have on file from 2021, so some details may have shifted. A frustrating issue is that, despite the plans for the protected bikeway north of 77th, @MnDOT refused to allow it to connect into their project. So... shoulder-style bike lanes for this crossing.
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@pdouglasweather Worth mentioning that before the end of that Halloween storm, MSP had its earliest ever below zero temperature reading.
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@sdho @DaveEatsLunch Had they done it 20-30 years ago when it was considered, the connection would have passed thru what was rhen and is still largely an industrial area.
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@DaveEatsLunch It should probably not be the city’s responsibility, although I think realistically county or state would probably want a better northern terminus, and that could be bad for neighborhood (like direct 94 connection)
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Kind of unsightly that St. Paul left this remnant crumbled asphalt on the ramps from Ayd Mill Road to Grand and St. Clair Aves.
Everything costs money, but tearing up old asphalt and putting down dirt and seed is pretty cheap!
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@sdho 100% with you on headlights. But I don’t really see the point of stop-start. The amount of gas/emissions saved in my Crosstrek is miniscule even in an urban environment, and virtually zero where I live.
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Any president going for auto stop-start before going for LED headlights is no president of mine.
The White House@WhiteHouse
Keeping cool while Making America Hot Again. 🏁 Auto start-stop is officially dead.
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@amanduh_curran @ILoveBlueBell Been a long time (almost 18 years) since I had me some Blue Bell.
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As a kid you can’t wait to grow up because adults eat whatever they want for dinner, like cookies + ice cream…now I’m living my childhood dream – oh, and I’m also a meteorologist 😂
Thanks for all the #NationalWeatherpersonsDay love 🥰
(yummy treats paid for by @ILoveBlueBell)
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The difference between Nicollet in Richfield and Nicollet in Bloomington shows that, despite some improvements, @Hennepin will steadfastly fight for motorists — while any accommodations at all for people walking and biking is a matter of local preference only.
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Hennepin County declares they are moving forward with the new Nicollet in Bloomington which will:
1. Remove the existing on-street bike lanes
2. Provide no dedicated bicycle facility
3. Widen east side sidewalk to sidepath
4. Provide limited tree planting, no pedestrian refuge
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@aaron_renn Starting with the obvious lack and dire need of direct connection between South Station and North Station?
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I'm skeptical of air rights development over these kinds of rail lines. They will end up introducing obnoxious and costly constraints on future transit developments.
Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸@aaron_renn
NYT: New Life Emerges Atop Boston’s South Station - A massive mixed-use tower, with 166 high-end condominiums, is altering the skyline while improving one of the city’s transit centers nytimes.com/2025/12/31/rea…
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@amanduh_curran If only it was at the back end and not the front end…not looking forward to 5am daylight.
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☀️ starting January 13th, we are gaining more than a minute of daylight each day ☀️
Amanda Curran ☼@amanduh_curran
Mark your calendar for January 12th, 2026: it’s our first 5pm sunset of the year in Montgomery … we haven’t had one of those since the beginning of last November!
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@pdouglasweather How does last year compare to other low-snowfall years? I know it’s not 1st or 2nd…I distinctly remember the winter of 86-87 (70s in March!) and I recall reading one winter in the ‘30s that was even lower.
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@NWSGray @HayleyWMUR @JacquelineWMUR @MichaelPageWx @SurfSkiWeather Backlit Cannon. Some flurries in the Notch. Peeks of sun past Woodstock:
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@NWSBurlington @HaleyBouleyWX @WasilenkoAlex @JessWCAX @TylerJankoski @BenMyNBC5 @MichaelPageWx @JimCantore Already -1F in Narnia. Temp…not wind chill.
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@sdho Spacing. A single on-ramp to WB crosstown instead of 2 with more length for the auxiliary lane from the 121 on-ramp to the Penn off-ramp.
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@ajfroggie Any idea why they got rid of the SB 121 to WB Crosstown ramp? Low enough volume the southbound yield set-up works fine, but kinda curious why they took old the connection that didn't require it.
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Cool view of the Crosstown Commons in the late 1960s. This is the western junction at Grasslake, facing southwest.
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