Ethan Fawley

Ok. Maybe you are clearing before the crew gets there. To clarify, City typically does corner clearing when there is a snow emergency declared & has to start over if there is another snow emergency in the middle, so it certainly can take a while in some cases.

There are ~17,000 ped corners to be cleared. With current funding available, it takes about 9 days to clear them all

City does clear all corners (which started 1995 & has received more $ 2xs to speed up). That starts after streets being cleared are all plowed because otherwise they would just get filled back in by the next plow. Corner clearing starts w pedestrian priority streets & then moves to other streets

Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.

Minneapolis has been named one of the world’s most bike-friendly cities! A new report covering 100 cities in 44 countries ranked Minneapolis as the #2 biking city in the U.S., #5 in North America and #44 globally. Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/news/2025/november/2025-bike-friendly-city/

Shots on target:
San Diego: 0
Minnesota: 2
(To be fair, neither team had a good chance)

Minnesota Black & Blue 🩵

My family & me outside stadium in San Diego ahead of MNUFC playoff game

View from our seats 2 hours before kick off.

Come on you Loons! #LoonsOverSD

How many Loons fans are going?
My family is on our way to the airport!

The eastern end of the Midtown Greenway at night, with an arc of lit up street lamps as the trail curves

The lights are fixed!!! The Midtown Greenway is now lit up from the river all the way to Uptown!

My understanding is they aren’t operating yet, just mapping the streets

One day different from this year’s March 1 game

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

Excited for Minneapolis to be recognized among the world's best cycling cities in the 2025 Copenhagenize Index!

We placed 44th overall and Bryant Ave S was specifically profiled as a global success story. Looking forward to moving up in future years!

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Outrageous and terrible. I hope she is released soon. (Good on her for peacefully protesting)

‘Shouldn’t have happened’: St. Paul neighbors worried about safety in area where driver fatally struck woman, 30 Amber Deneen and her husband were walking their two dogs.

Just terrible. It should be safe to cross the street.

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On the bus to the game with my son as well!

Roughly 40,000 people are killed in traffic crashes each year, with speeding contributing to nearly a third of those fatalities.

On #WDoR2025, we remember and honor those who have lost their lives and those who have been injured, and we act to implement evidence-based solutions to end this crisis.

I’d rather MLS & teams invest $x mil more in building community connections & funding free youth soccer/academies than going from the 11th best league in world to 9th best. That’s how you build true fans who don’t just leave when x superstar isn’t around. Takes time, but you can’t rush true culture

I wish we would stop pretending that Euro snobs have a reason to not watch MLS because it’s not good enough. The speed of play, moments of quality, and parity make it hugely intriguing from a truly neutral perspective. Can the play be better? Sure, but that isn’t a reason not to be a fan

I disagree that spending ever more on slightly better players is key to MLS growing fans. MLS playing quality is quite good. EPL snobs aren’t coming over even if MLS is the world’s 3rd best league. Growing true fans takes time & investment in fan experience & community bldg

It will be interesting to see if the improved playoff flow offsets the huge regular season break. It’s definitely a big improvement and a big negative. They have to figure out how to make the 1st half of the season truly relevant

Now, it’s less available for newer fans, but even that is overstated since close to as many games are on FS1 as before & lots of games have been available for Apple TV subscribers for free. And now they will give season ticket holders free Apple TV, which saves us each like $150/yr

I do quibble on your assessment on Apple TV. That has been one of the very best things MLS has done for hardcore fans. I went from having to have a VPN so I could watch road games on ESPN+ with shitty announcers to never having to think about where to watch games. I watch way more & it’s way better

I agree with a fair bit here, particularly that chasing “better players” will not somehow lead to everyone being an MLS fan. The quality of play is plenty great in MLS. I’d rather keep ticket prices affordable than spend ever more on players with prices jacked up. Growing true fans takes time

We certainly want all aspects of our transportation system to work well & work hard to try new things, evaluate, adjust as needed, & keep working to improve them

Track how it hangs up over time with pictures, etc., talk with maintenance crews, paint crews, Metro Transit. Focus wasn’t slipperiness, but that was aspect. Report will be published soon

That is certainly a focus & built into the paint installs. I’m not aware that we at Mpls Public Works have heard any concerns from Metro Transit on the bus lanes being overly slippery. We just finished an eval of the paint. Certainly might be spots where it wears down & is a bit slipperier

A good chance to talk with your mom about driving safe speeds! 😉
Fyi camera violations don’t go on driver’s records.

This weekend we celebrated the completion of new public artwork at the Hiawatha-Lake Underpass by Daniela Bianchini, Pablo Kalaka, Natchez Beaulieu and Greta McLain. This 5,200-square-foot mural is grounded in the Medicine Wheel, a symbol of Indigenous communities around the world.