Emanuel Gripes

Jury awards $4 million to man who lost leg after being run over by Metro Transit bus The man sustained a severe leg injury that required amputation below the knee.

Don't run for buses

"I'm so scared of the crime I invented in my head"

The Secret to Vancouver’s Public Transit Ridership Recovery The Canadian city’s transit agency, TransLink, bounced back from Covid even as other North American systems have struggled. Its leader explains why riders returned.

The head of Vancouver’s transit agency can sum its ridership recovery in one word: Frequency.

“Running the bus every 30 minutes isn’t going to cut it if you want to grow ridership.“

Many Vancouver 🚌 run every 5min or less, and the SkyTrain runs every 3-4min, via @davidzipper.bsky.social

We caught it in between the St. Paul skyline driving up I-35E, and it looked HUGE

Bluesky taught me the joy of blocking. I block people everywhere now. I just blocked an ex boyfriend on duolingo. I can't stop.

Yeah, the expectation of predictability cuts both ways. I appreciated them for slowing down to make sure I didn't blow the sign!

Yesterday someone stopped in the middle of a roundabout and tried to wave me into it, I got so pissed off. Don't break the rules of the road just to feel nice! You are actually slowing me down by not continuing through the roundabout!

People have done this to me while biking when I have the stop sign. I just sit there and point at the sign until they move on

This thread highlights a point I have been making for many years: the logic of authoritarianism and the logic of domestic abuse are exactly the same. It is only a difference of scale.

Continues to be striking how, since Frey erected the greenway fence to Lake/Nicollet, the crowd has returned en masse to 2900 block of Blaisdell. Frey bleats “you can’t have encampments by home & businesses“ but that’s exactly where he’s pushed these folks. Meanwhile 50 housing vouchers go unfunded.

Everytime I've used it, I've seen a physical response within a few stations. Metro Transit has far more staff available to respond since 2023 and the introduction of the TRIP agents

I don't know why you would stop using it unless you want MT to be LESS awar that you're experiencing a problem

Maybe some from this upcoming lineup: www.instagram.com/p/DN3UiE_3ILY/

Elevated viaduct but tomato-tomahto

I dream that one day drivers will have the same patience for me crossing the street that they do waiting for a parking spot 10 feet closer to the mall entrance.

Over half of this video is dead air, and that's the bit I found most compelling

She's the professor

The nazi's POV, with the prof standing in front of her class, proudly flipping him off is *chef's kiss*

Tunnel Boring Machines are often (exclusively?) named for women

*replace

You could just do the Wisconsin county road thing and double-up lmao. AA Line, BB Line, etc.

We absolutely need to bring back "illegal to resell" on event tickets. Gift 'em to a friend if you can't go

Ahh there you go. I've heard that anything 551xx can use "Saint Paul" as the city in a mailing address and anything 554xx can use "Minneapolis" hence why so many suburbs' mail can go either way (their actual city name or Minneapolis/Saint Paul)

Remember when there was talk of breaking up ticketmaster?

In contrast to St. Louis, where the abbreviation is the offical name for the city

That's bizarre. Is it not all one ZIP code?

Quad Cities in Iowa/Illinois added a fifth city some time ago, but "Quint Cities" never really took off (they tried)

MSP Airport technically isn't in any municipality. It's on a patch of Federal land that sits between Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and Bloomington

OTOH the r/saintpaul subreddit is larger and better moderated than the r/stpaul subreddit. And USPS prefers "Saint Paul" on mail in case the "St." gets confused for the abbreviation for "Street"

Neither is better than the other, but they are both used for different things

Gonna pop a Tylenol and look at some trains to see what all the fuss is about.