Bryan
@bryanformhals.com
Pedestrian in Downtown Minneapolis // Photography projects focusing on transit networks, public spaces and urban nature
@streets.mn Board Member //Marketing Agency gig
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@streets.mn Board Member //Marketing Agency gig
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Thanks for giving me a moment to promote @streets.mn!
Catch Bryan at about the 48 minute mark and consider a donation to Streets.mn for give to the max day
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November 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Thanks for giving me a moment to promote @streets.mn!
Just ran into @walkingminnesota.com and probably made a fool of myself on a livestream!
But it's worth it!
In all seriousness, these long form walking videos have a sneaky under the radar audience.
I watch them from streamers in other cities. It's interesting way to get the vibe of a city.
But it's worth it!
In all seriousness, these long form walking videos have a sneaky under the radar audience.
I watch them from streamers in other cities. It's interesting way to get the vibe of a city.
November 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Just ran into @walkingminnesota.com and probably made a fool of myself on a livestream!
But it's worth it!
In all seriousness, these long form walking videos have a sneaky under the radar audience.
I watch them from streamers in other cities. It's interesting way to get the vibe of a city.
But it's worth it!
In all seriousness, these long form walking videos have a sneaky under the radar audience.
I watch them from streamers in other cities. It's interesting way to get the vibe of a city.
Will never be cheaper than public transit.
The best fight against this is to build more public transit infrastructure.
Trains are the future. High speed rail is the future.
Cars will go extinct and future generations will look back at the automobile age as misguided and destructive.
The best fight against this is to build more public transit infrastructure.
Trains are the future. High speed rail is the future.
Cars will go extinct and future generations will look back at the automobile age as misguided and destructive.
Waymo, the driverless ride-hailing company, is bringing its fleet of autonomous electric vehicles to Minneapolis.
Ridesharing without a driver? It's coming to Minneapolis
Testing will begin Thursday morning. No date has been set to start offering rides to passengers.
bit.ly
November 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Will never be cheaper than public transit.
The best fight against this is to build more public transit infrastructure.
Trains are the future. High speed rail is the future.
Cars will go extinct and future generations will look back at the automobile age as misguided and destructive.
The best fight against this is to build more public transit infrastructure.
Trains are the future. High speed rail is the future.
Cars will go extinct and future generations will look back at the automobile age as misguided and destructive.
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It's Give to the Max, our most important financial day of the year.
We know it's a challenging time for many, but if you are able, we are depending on you to include us in your end of year giving.
We know that YOU know that our area of coverage touches all others, and even a few dollars helps.
We know it's a challenging time for many, but if you are able, we are depending on you to include us in your end of year giving.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It's Give to the Max, our most important financial day of the year.
We know it's a challenging time for many, but if you are able, we are depending on you to include us in your end of year giving.
We know that YOU know that our area of coverage touches all others, and even a few dollars helps.
We know it's a challenging time for many, but if you are able, we are depending on you to include us in your end of year giving.
We know that YOU know that our area of coverage touches all others, and even a few dollars helps.
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Basically, Americans want to live places we can walk, and the car industry and its minions in city "transportation" departments are responding by slaughtering us because walkable neighborhoods are an existential threat to the car industry's business model. www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
The deadliest roads in America
The number of pedestrians killed by vehicles has increased in the U.S., with road infrastructure and inadequate safety measures among key contributing factors.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Basically, Americans want to live places we can walk, and the car industry and its minions in city "transportation" departments are responding by slaughtering us because walkable neighborhoods are an existential threat to the car industry's business model. www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
The suburbia vs city debate is not only about policy and economics!
It's also about culture, storytelling, and well being.
We also cannot ignore public safety and I wish urbanists had more courage to openly talk about that rather than fearing it makes them sound pro-police.
It's also about culture, storytelling, and well being.
We also cannot ignore public safety and I wish urbanists had more courage to openly talk about that rather than fearing it makes them sound pro-police.
November 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The suburbia vs city debate is not only about policy and economics!
It's also about culture, storytelling, and well being.
We also cannot ignore public safety and I wish urbanists had more courage to openly talk about that rather than fearing it makes them sound pro-police.
It's also about culture, storytelling, and well being.
We also cannot ignore public safety and I wish urbanists had more courage to openly talk about that rather than fearing it makes them sound pro-police.
I've been working in the corporate world for 25 years now and I do not recall any period of time when a segment of the financial and political press were not fear mongering about a stock market crash or a recession.
It's constant no matter the economic reality because it pays to make people worry.
It's constant no matter the economic reality because it pays to make people worry.
November 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I've been working in the corporate world for 25 years now and I do not recall any period of time when a segment of the financial and political press were not fear mongering about a stock market crash or a recession.
It's constant no matter the economic reality because it pays to make people worry.
It's constant no matter the economic reality because it pays to make people worry.
Brad Troemel ended up in my Instagram feed and now I know the term treatlerite.
It's really something to be aging out of cultural knowledge even while swimming in the brainrot slop.
But I do hold onto photography when done well as prestige art nobody cares about.
Salvation in the tribe of 15.
It's really something to be aging out of cultural knowledge even while swimming in the brainrot slop.
But I do hold onto photography when done well as prestige art nobody cares about.
Salvation in the tribe of 15.
November 19, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Brad Troemel ended up in my Instagram feed and now I know the term treatlerite.
It's really something to be aging out of cultural knowledge even while swimming in the brainrot slop.
But I do hold onto photography when done well as prestige art nobody cares about.
Salvation in the tribe of 15.
It's really something to be aging out of cultural knowledge even while swimming in the brainrot slop.
But I do hold onto photography when done well as prestige art nobody cares about.
Salvation in the tribe of 15.
I can't watch the news. So I am turning on the YouTube to watch some transit tourists ride trains.
November 19, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I can't watch the news. So I am turning on the YouTube to watch some transit tourists ride trains.
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If cars were any other consumer product, they would be banned..
We don’t have to live this way. Too many of us know the grief—not just death from traffic violence, but long term, life changing injury and trauma. What kind of society could we have without it?
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/p...
We don’t have to live this way. Too many of us know the grief—not just death from traffic violence, but long term, life changing injury and trauma. What kind of society could we have without it?
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/p...
Two injured, multiple cars mangled after high-speed S.F. Pac Heights crash
A three-vehicle car crash sent two people to the hospital on Tuesday morning.
www.sfchronicle.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
If cars were any other consumer product, they would be banned..
We don’t have to live this way. Too many of us know the grief—not just death from traffic violence, but long term, life changing injury and trauma. What kind of society could we have without it?
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/p...
We don’t have to live this way. Too many of us know the grief—not just death from traffic violence, but long term, life changing injury and trauma. What kind of society could we have without it?
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/p...
This should be the City of Minneapolis Museum dedicated to artifacts about architecture, infrastructure and the public realm.
Architectural marvel in downtown Minneapolis set for new life after purchase.
More: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/architectural-marvel-in-downtown-minneapolis-set-for-new-life-after-being-sold
More: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/architectural-marvel-in-downtown-minneapolis-set-for-new-life-after-being-sold
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM
This should be the City of Minneapolis Museum dedicated to artifacts about architecture, infrastructure and the public realm.
I think this American Revolution documentary was generated by KenBurnsGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I think this American Revolution documentary was generated by KenBurnsGPT.
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Call me old fashioned but I still believe there's a place for arguing that suburbia makes your life more miserable and uninspiring.
Toss on top of that the negative health and financial impacts of car dependency.
People can be persuaded by good storytelling.
Make cities cool again!
Toss on top of that the negative health and financial impacts of car dependency.
People can be persuaded by good storytelling.
Make cities cool again!
November 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Call me old fashioned but I still believe there's a place for arguing that suburbia makes your life more miserable and uninspiring.
Toss on top of that the negative health and financial impacts of car dependency.
People can be persuaded by good storytelling.
Make cities cool again!
Toss on top of that the negative health and financial impacts of car dependency.
People can be persuaded by good storytelling.
Make cities cool again!
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"Walkable neighborhoods provide a less car-dependent lifestyle for families, which reduces the risk of auto-based accidents, a leading cause of death for kids. Walkability leads to better physical and mental health outcomes for kids as they grow."
www.minnpost.com/community-vo...
www.minnpost.com/community-vo...
Let's make downtown Minneapolis more kid-friendly - MinnPost
The city's 2035 Plan outlines a smart and ambitious strategy for downtown, except when it comes to kids. Here's how to do better.
www.minnpost.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
"Walkable neighborhoods provide a less car-dependent lifestyle for families, which reduces the risk of auto-based accidents, a leading cause of death for kids. Walkability leads to better physical and mental health outcomes for kids as they grow."
www.minnpost.com/community-vo...
www.minnpost.com/community-vo...
We need a 10 hour documentary on the rise of car dependency.
Right, this is true, but the OVERWHELMING evidence of the past 100 years of American life is that vastly more people want space and a car than a smaller unit and a car-free lifestyle. This is mostly why the suburban share of US population has grown relentlessly for the entire 20th and 21st century
Some people put a premium on space in my experience, others put a premium on not having to have a car and not being isolated out in the suburbs
November 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
We need a 10 hour documentary on the rise of car dependency.
Hella better than what's there right now.
Proposed Washington Avenue (1940)
Source: Hennepin County Library
The view from Nicollet Avenue to the river. See also P49934.
Source: Hennepin County Library
The view from Nicollet Avenue to the river. See also P49934.
November 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Hella better than what's there right now.
😳😳😳
A Metropolitan Council audit spurred by the resignation of Minneapolis Regional Chamber CEO Jonathan Weinhagen found a “high risk” that a chamber subsidiary misused federal grants to promote transit, biking and walking.
Met Council audit finds ‘high risk’ that nonprofit misused federal funds
The Met Council audit of Move Minneapolis came after Jonathan Weinhagen resigned as CEO of its parent organization, the Minneapolis Regional Chamber.
bit.ly
November 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
😳😳😳
Why is it mandatory in these articles to quote at least two cranky NIMBYs?
“That’s not just about the design, the welcomingness, the openness, but also the activation overall,” he said, because pedestrian spaces promote browsing in shops, stopping for coffee or spontaneous conversations."
www.startribune.com/edina-france...
www.startribune.com/edina-france...
November 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Why is it mandatory in these articles to quote at least two cranky NIMBYs?
Amazing
Owámniyomni Okhódayapi just announced the Dakota-led design for the restoration of five acres at Owámniyomni (St. Anthony Falls), adjacent to the Upper Lock on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. Project construction is targeted to begin in spring 2026. Very exciting!
owamniyomni.org/design/
owamniyomni.org/design/
November 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Amazing
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Urbanism—the notion that cities are good, that we should build housing in the dense walkable neighborhoods where people want to live, and that urban governance should prioritize city residents’ quality of life over suburban drivers’ convenience—remains a radical political program in America.
One thing that’s so frustrating living in a city center is the pervasive belief among suburbanites that your neighborhood is nothing more than a consumer experience for them and that the city should bend over backwards to ensure they can speed as fast as possible on their way to buy treats in it.
November 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Urbanism—the notion that cities are good, that we should build housing in the dense walkable neighborhoods where people want to live, and that urban governance should prioritize city residents’ quality of life over suburban drivers’ convenience—remains a radical political program in America.
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“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
I love this new war on cars!
Presuming we're going to extend this to the car tech companies in Detroit as well? 🧐
Let's start by adding more speed cameras, pedestrianizing 40% of the streets in Minneapolis, and permanently banning anyone with a DUI from getting a license.
Presuming we're going to extend this to the car tech companies in Detroit as well? 🧐
Let's start by adding more speed cameras, pedestrianizing 40% of the streets in Minneapolis, and permanently banning anyone with a DUI from getting a license.
Someone on the Minneapolis subreddit caught Waymos being delivered. We need the City Council need to ban the use of driverless cars. The technology isn't there. Our city cannot be a testing ground for 1.5 ton autonomous projectiles.
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I love this new war on cars!
Presuming we're going to extend this to the car tech companies in Detroit as well? 🧐
Let's start by adding more speed cameras, pedestrianizing 40% of the streets in Minneapolis, and permanently banning anyone with a DUI from getting a license.
Presuming we're going to extend this to the car tech companies in Detroit as well? 🧐
Let's start by adding more speed cameras, pedestrianizing 40% of the streets in Minneapolis, and permanently banning anyone with a DUI from getting a license.
I can go from 49 to 65 just by not shaving for a week.
the white beard is a youth destroyer.
the white beard is a youth destroyer.
white beard + bald in 40s makes you 65. hard and fast rule. never grow a white beard. no hair anywhere on the head makes you 45 forever.
November 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I can go from 49 to 65 just by not shaving for a week.
the white beard is a youth destroyer.
the white beard is a youth destroyer.
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The American car industry quite deliberately designs its products so that they kill people. They know this. They are not ignorant of how their products work.
They don't care.
They don't care.
Trigger warning.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
November 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The American car industry quite deliberately designs its products so that they kill people. They know this. They are not ignorant of how their products work.
They don't care.
They don't care.
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The dam is breaking. The world's leading public health news organization is now reporting US driver violence as a public health crisis.
"American roads have become more dangerous than violent crimes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, and other major cities." t.co/BEcu5JJ457
"American roads have become more dangerous than violent crimes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, and other major cities." t.co/BEcu5JJ457
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/traffic-deaths-pedestrian-safety-vision-zero-los-angeles-dot-nhtsa/
t.co
November 16, 2025 at 3:56 AM
The dam is breaking. The world's leading public health news organization is now reporting US driver violence as a public health crisis.
"American roads have become more dangerous than violent crimes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, and other major cities." t.co/BEcu5JJ457
"American roads have become more dangerous than violent crimes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, and other major cities." t.co/BEcu5JJ457