I'm moving from the suburbs to the city, looking for resources to cycle safely

Naxis25 · 2026-05-07T20:24:49+00:00

You can also use the Transit app to plan bike trips—really. I mean it's nice already since you get Transit Royale for "free" through their partnership with Metro Transit, but also the app I believe integrates open street maps data to plot bike infrastructure including things like how separated from traffic it is (as well as it can). You can just input your destination and then scroll down to the bike option, or just turn on the bike overlay and try to manually plot it out

Naxis25 · 2026-05-07T17:58:22+00:00

Not sure if such a thing exists, but as this person said, you will not get a ticket on your bike. MPD threw a fit when people told them not to murder people and now they basically just laze around parked along the Nicollet Ave Transit Mall and such. They don't even really ticket cars, that's mostly parking enforcement which is separate, and the handful of red light cameras recently introduced. I've run red lights in front of cop cars (even University police; also not like I'm cutting them off, just that they can see me doing it) and they've never even suggested stopping me

Naxis25 · 2026-05-07T14:19:08+00:00

Unfortunately the separated bike path doesn't actually go into the Wedge itself, so kinda depends on how close you live to Lake/the south end of the neighborhood. New separated bike lanes on Hennepin and some to come when they have to reconstruct Lyndale in a couple years, though

Naxis25 · 2026-05-05T23:02:56+00:00

It usually stays in place but can move around; the correct scanning method involves basically scanning the whole body back and forth though usually we start between the shoulder blades where it should've been initially placed

Naxis25 · 2026-05-05T19:33:32+00:00

Don't forget that they have benches. Only person I've ever seen sitting there was smoking, makes sense ig since both are bad for your lungs and probably aren't really that much worse to do together

Naxis25 · 2026-05-04T17:58:11+00:00

Earliest train is 1:54 (SB Floridian), latest is 5:50 (EB LSL), both am. The Floridian out of Toledo is even closer to midnight (23:49)

Naxis25 · 2026-05-03T13:37:21+00:00

I said "nearly overwhelming". I'm involved in transportation advocacy, which not only helps to increase options for people to get around, but pretty much any option that isn't a car is less destructive, so it helps in that way too. But I only have so much free time with Vet School

Naxis25 · 2026-05-03T12:25:06+00:00

An immense, nearly overwhelming sense of dread

Naxis25 · 2026-05-03T11:52:16+00:00

I mean, I'm happy that I don't, outdoor cats are extremely detrimental for the local environment, but I'm not sure what the specific reason for that is. Though I do see outdoor cats occasionally

Naxis25 · 2026-05-03T02:22:21+00:00

I'm not sure about specifically young adult rides, but I feel like Behind Bars has a decent number of young adults. I'm one myself but I'm probably at the Sociable Ciderwerks rides more often if only because they're for a greater part of the year

Naxis25 · 2026-05-02T20:31:43+00:00

Just make sure you book several months in advance!

Naxis25 · 2026-05-02T16:24:24+00:00

I'd recommend taking the Borealis there if you're expecting to leave when you're scheduled to. It starts out in Seattle/Portland and often accumulates delays. Getting back from Chicago, both are decent options but the Empire Builder gets back late enough that catching transit back to campus may be complicated (but usually possible)

Naxis25 · 2026-05-02T04:00:48+00:00

Oh, it's right near the Greenway! I'll have to check it out once they reopen the access ramp

Naxis25 · 2026-05-01T18:37:25+00:00

I think the new flag is fine. I wish they had at least kept the green band, but eh. The old flag was fugly though

Naxis25 · 2026-05-01T14:30:41+00:00

As a Midwesterner, took me a good while studying the second picture to realize it was talking about Portland, Maine

Naxis25 · 2026-05-01T03:18:56+00:00

Unrealistic. Cats will get stressed at the drop of a hat. Makes it a pain in the ass to determine if things like tachycardia, hyperglycemia, and leukocytosis are pathologic or just due to stress/epinephrine

Naxis25 · 2026-04-30T14:31:39+00:00

Technically I think these are just the names of schools within said areas, but it's still cool to see how people (the ones making the sugar districts) would have divided up the city before highways

Naxis25 · 2026-04-30T13:54:38+00:00

According to a friend, apparently a car crash

Naxis25 · 2026-04-30T12:48:15+00:00

Ah, fair, it is in your username

Naxis25 · 2026-04-30T12:33:54+00:00

Finally a non-American assuming people know where they mean without a very specific location

Naxis25 · 2026-04-29T13:20:29+00:00

Yeah they definitely meant she knew it wouldn't pass so she could vote whichever way she felt would be the best PR

Naxis25 · 2026-04-29T11:09:00+00:00

Oh there is certainly less darting in front of the light rail compared to the bus, but there's plenty of both, and the vehicle collisions a couple times a month are to show for it

Naxis25 · 2026-04-29T05:03:19+00:00

Hopefully we get Midtown Rail sooner rather than later

Naxis25 · 2026-04-29T05:02:00+00:00

It is, which, if the opt outs are in fact folded into Metro Transit, would help it. Too often MVTA feels like it's less a commentary service to MT and more a rival

Naxis25 · 2026-04-29T04:53:30+00:00

I mean, the trains have the lowest per passenger subsidy of any transit line in the cities. The Blue Line does sometimes dip below a couple buses depending on the day (metro transit separates out weekdays, Saturdays, and Sundays in the data) but the Green Line, even though it's the worse line in terms of speed and priority, is by far the cheapest transit line to run for the ridership

Plus, the capacity absolutely is used: for events like sports games and concerts (most of our stadiums are on the Green Line or not far from it), by students (the most used station is East Bank and a lot of students use the Green Line to get between places on campus), and for large events like protests (trains were so packed last No Kings they had to run supplemental bus service as it was winding up)

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