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Study:
Autonomous cars make traffic worse due to inability to interpret human behavior that humans intuitively understand immediately. https://studyfinds.org/self-driving-car ... -behavior/

Seven and a half years later and, still, no one is in charge of anything.

https://streets.mn/2015/10/28/downtown- ... elsewhere/

I was remembering this one. This was a great post.

If express buses come back to pre-covid levels this is a bad idea. Marq/2 was packed with buses during peak hours.

They sure were! Some long nights going south on Marquette. The timing of lights seemed against moving evening buses, but the turns off Marquette were the big bottlenecks.

Rerouting buses from Nicollet Mall to make it more a pedestrian street?

https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis ... 600280566/

Those are some fun comparisons to see trends in there.

Nowhere grew like Minneapolis in raw totals. Though Lakeville had a boom.

So much has been passing this legislative session. Turns out Minnesota is getting the Idaho stop. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230523/ea769acfe0d31cfff58d3b9200bb5836.jpg https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2887&type=ccr&version=0&session=ls93&session_year=2023&a...

Cory Doctorow wrote a short essay, with links, positive towards rent control.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/16/mort ... t-control/

Lot of interesting thoughts in it!

Disappointing.

The UNFI campus (former SuperValu HQ) on Bryant Lake will be on the market.

https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... -sale.html

UNFI says they will have a new modern office for Twin Cities staff elsewhere.

Wells Fargo mortgage campus to be sold. https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... ampus.html

Didn’t they just add a parking ramp?

It’s interesting that there will be four continuous apartments in a row between city hall and the library along Eden Avenue.

Opus proposing to replace old offices at 5100 Eden with apartments.

https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... pment.html

BNSF isn't a publicly trade company and doesn't have any shareholders to please …

Maybe not publicly traded, but there are shareholders, like Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway owns a big chunk and they are publicly traded.

It’s been so exhausting to see something take sooooo long to inch into existence with long periods of silence.

Mayors of St. Louis Park and Golden Valley both not seeking re-election.

https://www.startribune.com/mayors-of-s ... 600260757/

The dash cam video was revealing! Showing the car clearing the crossing while the lights is still yellow the train coming through not slowing down.

"There's so many 'sleepers,' " the train driver said. "Nobody notices that the guy quit breathing until they're blue. And then by that time, it's too late."

They even seem to be already employing the kinds of helpers we want to start using.

Maybe there is going to be a substantive difference in scope or duties. But it was depressing.

LA’s transit trains have also dropped ridership in huge numbers due to open drug use. https://news.yahoo.com/l-riders-bail-me ... 07450.html