Sean Hayford Oleary

@Komrad_Iron @taylr The Bryant Bikeway north of Lake Street isn’t found in pavement, it’s found in your heart.

@taylr And Bryant's lanes stop at Lake Street.

email from josh bassais against dedicated bike path on lyndale ave like hennepin has, saying, "we already have viable bike lanes on Bryant and Blaisdell." no, we don't - blaisdell bike lane is paint, not even flex posts. the county has higher standards for safe infrastructure!

@taylr Why would you not simply go to the other Bulldog location on Blaisdell? Or the other Wedge Co-Op on Bryant? Why MUST you go on Lyndale for these things???

The biggest bullshit move by DHS in its history. So everyone on a O1 or H1B visa would have to stop working legally in the US, go back to their country and wait for years of backlog? This includes top scientists in our universities, founders of billion dollar companies (at least 3 just in our portfolio would be affected by the way). And if we look at individual countries it becomes even more bs. Indians would have to wait decades. Russians don’t have anywhere to go (there is no US embassy in Russia, hello?). This is the worst imaginable way to disrupt important work for the country and pretend you’re fighting some loophole.

The endorsement process has value in directing party resources but I bristle at the idea it’s a more authentic representation of Minnesotans’ choice. Minnesotans - not extremist billionaires - will be voting in August as well.

@zacharywefel This is really misleading - Minnesotans decide the endorsement but (implicitly) special interests decide the primary and actual nomination? It’s appropriate to have a party endorsement for the purposes of directing party resources. That’s how it should be framed.

I really dislike framing the caucus/convention process as letting Minnesotans decide when the entire process is inherently exclusionary. I’m a lifelong DFLer without a voice in the endorsement process.

@BokononsProphet Damn Cowboy Jack’s at Cedar and County Road 42 was robbed

My top five bars 1) Applebee’s - Bloomington, MN (the good one) 2) Cowboy Jack’s - Bloomington, MN (the good one) 3) Margaritaville - Bloomington, MN 4) Buffalo Wild Wings - Bloomington, MN 5) Applebee’s - Bloomington, MN (the bad one)

@Komrad_Iron @rhett_carlson An engineer once argued that that they were more pedestrian-friendly than conventional right turns, because the set back crosswalk allowed drivers to be “exclusively focused” on yielding to pedestrians prior to vehicular yield point. I have yet to experience this exclusive focus

@sdho @rhett_carlson I always hated crossing them or a block up or down as cars would take the corner at 30+mph and then get mad that you were crossing the street.

I love this rock mulch "ghost of porkchop yet to come" at 98th/Old Shakopee & Nicollet. (Thankfully, it will not be coming... Bloomington's reconstruction plans for Nicollet will keep it as a regular right turn.)

@rhett_carlson @Komrad_Iron Oblivious drivers HATE this one weird trick

@Komrad_Iron @sdho Yeah, pretty much case in point why cities are removing. But the “fix” ends up with cars waiting to take a right in the crosswalk 9/10 times

@rhett_carlson 94th & Lyndale NW corner is a good example where they actually built the free right. At least it got a nice new sidewalk!

@rhett_carlson Correct. Bloomington does this a lot with plats — requiring extra ROW for future road widening. It's why the sidewalks seem to jump all over the place on some major roads. But it's unusual that they sometimes required full corners for free rights!

europeans after enabling their out of office auto reply until september

At this point, I’m officially nostalgic for HPS lights.

Not a single sticker for shared-use paths! I’m not surprised one-way protected bike lanes are the favorite but I was surprised to see zero votes for traditional sidepaths.

@MattMpls In rough terms for parking: 1. West side, 6600+6700 - pretty certain will keep. It won’t go quite as far south but will add spots closer to 66th 2. East side, 6600 - possible but not guaranteed 3. North of 66th - I keep asking but less momentum and more challenges.

@MattMpls Yep this spot is being actively discussed and there’s a good concept for it. Depends on property owner cooperation but there’s basically no way to preserve existing off-street parking and get a sidewalk etc.

Penn Avenue open house is tonight! From 4:30 to 7pm at the Richfield Middle School. The team will be showing detailed concepts for the corridor. Share your views on roundabouts vs. signals, median design, and your preferred bikeway type. See you there!

@the_transit_guy No way — you forgot the 6-lane 50 mph road between the retail and the vinyl blobs

This is literally the starter pack for every US zip code outside of a dozen cities 😭

@SteveSubera I don't usually get that excited about breaking up massing, but in this context, Archer House is an unusually large lot for this section of downtown Northfield — and the old building was four distinct masses. So I think they need something, but I agree that's not quite it.

@sdho I like the right side and the left side, but not the middle.

I'm glad to see something is happening at the Archer House site in Northfield, but... man we just don't build as beautiful of things anymore.

@bankertobuilder Look at this vibrant work-play-stay alternative

I have an idea

@sweater__weathr I prefer that to the original rebuild concept to be named *The Archer*

@sdho They should keep Archer House's name off of this if they aren't even gesturing at it.