MaryMM

Cheap oil is not your birthright. Living your life behind the wheel is an utter waste. Your car is your master.

Seriously. If I hear anyone shrieking about the price of gasoline because they've never even imagined using the bus or riding a bike or living in the city where they can walk, I am going to shriek back at them. I've been through a few oil shocks and it's the same s*** every time.

Gas prices are climbing fast as Trump’s Iran conflict continues Gas prices are increasing rapidly as President Donald Trump’s military assault on Iran continues, forcing a potential shutdown of oil production in the region.

Buy a bicycle. Buy an electric bicycle. Buy a transit pass. Join a carshare. Sell your suburban house. Sell your car.

Image of a creepy zombie strangling a person from Tim Burton's book, The melancholy death of oyster boy

I see that

Oh, definitely. He's an essential despot.

Portrait of Greg Bovino during his stay in MN

Portrait of Kristin Noem as head of DHS and hatred-filled accuser of local saints Good and Pretti.

Keep in mind that the watercolor Despot Series is having real political takedown effects. Noting Despots #1 and #2, Creepy Bovino and Kristi "Brooke Shields-era" Noem are now forced out of Minnesota.

Painted portrait of a white-haired, blue eyed male with a blue suit, blue tie and white shirt, also wearing a performance -based US flag pin

Despot Series #4
Minnesota Traitor Tom Emmer

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How many billions of dollars in lost revenue because we insist on preserving MSP's in-town highways? It's absurd. Hey @governorwalz.mn.gov, hey @mndot.mn.gov, pause the #RethinkingI94 project and redesign the transportation network to support new homes and jobs!
www.scribd.com/document/100...

People say BlueSky is an echo chamber but we have road cyclists, gravel cyclists, mountain bikers, single speeders, fixie riders, cargo bike riders, e-bike riders, hybrid riders, recumbent riders, bikepackers, randonneurs, and I'm sure we even have a few unicyclists among us

Feels like it already

I suppose I could ask them directly but do you think the University of St. Thomas is lobbying to have 280 connected directly to Cretin so they have a less impeded car chute for their car-burdened staff? That will end well.

Opinion | The public wants cleanup at the St. Paul Ford site. Do regulators? On the Mississippi River in the heart of St. Paul sits a huge hazardous waste dump left behind by Ford Motor Co. The public has been vocal that it’s time for Ford to clean it up, but regulators don’t ...

Good oped about riverside toxic waste and the questionable commitment of our state agency to protect us. Follow the money, always.

Do car-free zones hurt disabled people? We asked experts. City planners and advocates are seeing "accessibility used as a political football."

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”

@nondriver.bsky.social in @motherjones.com #Accessibility

dawanna witt's hennepin county sheriff's deputies are once again hiding their faces at the whipple building, just like ICE and CBP do

Ask not what your representative will do for you (nothing), ask how you can make your representative so miserable they quit their job

Vehicle fuel economy and vehicle miles traveled: An empirical investigation of Jevon’s Paradox There has been, in recent decades, a concerted effort to promote energy efficiency as a means to reduce energy consumption. The general thesis is that…

STUDY: Despite conventional wisdom that increases in vehicle fuel efficiency results in decreased gasoline consumption, Jevons’ Paradox holds. For every 1 mile per gallon of increased fuel efficiency there’s an associated 1.2 mile increase in vehicle miles travelled.

Better cars = higher emissions.

And commuters on Minneapolis and Saint Paul parkways pass like amoral maniacs if you drive 25 on a 20 mph

Find Out Exactly How Much Downtown Highways Cost Your City — Streetsblog USA "How much does it actually cost to be car dependent?" This Dallas-based analyst set out to answer that question for cities across the U.S.

"...by tearing highways out of their innermost downtown cores or converting them to boulevards, cities can unlock billions of dollars of redevelopment potential, increase badly-needed property tax revenues, and reduce individual households' commute costs..."
It's time to PAUSE #RethinkingI94

Bogotá shows what action looks like.

- 1,400 electric buses.
- 560km of cycle lanes.
- Solar cable cars to the mountains.
- Clean air zones.
- Urban forests.

Air pollution down 24% in six years — with a growing population.
This is what courage + policy can do!

Measuring/predicting GHG on highways, good, a critical goal. But preventing any other icky environmental impacts of metro-area highways "through vehicle electrification"? 😭 No doubt a job posting from 2015.

Many thanks! ☀️

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Pause the Rethinking I-94 Project We must pause the Rethinking I-94 project now. Minnesota is facing a federal occupation that is terrorizing our neighborhoods, especially our most vulnerable and marginalized communities. Everyday ...

Good morning my beauties 🌞 Here's a Saturday action that costs nothing but 5 minutes. The I-94 plan is ridiculous and MnDOT must do better. Let's get 10,000 letters out to decision makers (currently 5330). Thank you for this opportunity, @ourstreetsmn.org

Ranked in order of lethal addiction
1. Driving
2. Fentanyl

We're a community wracked by the need to own, manage and drive cars and trucks, no matter how much they harm us and our neighbors, no matter our political or environmental beliefs, no matter anything. It's driving or nothing. #Pause94

This is amazing.

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no better evidence that the st-paulification of minneapolis continues apace

Pause the Rethinking I-94 Project We must pause the Rethinking I-94 project now. Minnesota is facing a federal occupation that is terrorizing our neighborhoods, especially our most vulnerable and marginalized communities. Everyday ...

Here is the easiest way to let @governorwalz.mn.gov and your elected and appointed officials and MnDOT engineers know that you want an immediate pause in the highway project. Send a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Pause the Rethinking I-94 Project. Takes 5 minutes, max. Write one here:

I see that. I just don't understand how mndot can't draw a couple of tamed alternatives and run them through legit modeling. Maybe the standard road catalog works on a rural project, but not here! We have such an amazing opportunity 🙏

Anyway I'm going to make two phone calls today, asking for a highway project pause. Hope you do, too.