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Eoin Roux 🏙️⚽️🚲🚌🚃
@eoinroux.bsky.social
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Twin Cities resident interested in cities, soccer, bikes, buses, and trains.
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Many people are saying we need to look at government services consolidation. @maplehoodunited.bsky.social

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Jeers to Minnesota's rising property taxes State Rep. Isaac Schultz, R-Elmdale, talks about the issue in a social media post. He describes 2026 property tax increases as brutal and cites DFL decisions and mandates, but there's plenty of blame to go around for the spike dating to the last Republican governor's cost shifting. Is anybody ready to talk about consolidation of government services yet? Surely the global digital transformation has created an opportunity to combine services and save on overhead among the state's cities, townships and 87 counties. "It's time to reset the course here in Minnesota and make sure that we're protecting taxpayers first," Schultz said. He's right, but the conversation needs to be viewed as a generational opportunity, a high-minded look at service delivery and not just an election-year tit-for-tat and cudgel against opponents.
December 2, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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This stretch of Cedar Ave will be rebuilt by Hennepin County in 2026-2027. The design has a median and shorter crossing distance.
www.hennepin.us/cedar-avenue
Layout of Cedar Ave near Little Earth. The bridge remains but the crossing distance is reduced and a median instead.
August 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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I was inspired by Robert Joyce’s letter to the Star Tribune about consolidating cities. I mocked up what his proposal would look like in the metro area. These two mergers would be the 3rd and 4th largest cities in the metro. www.startribune.com/readers-writ...
A metro area map with five north west suburbs combined and seven northern suburbs combined as spelled out by Robert Joyce’s letter to the Strib. The two combined cities would each be above 100,000 people.
July 16, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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I completely agree! I can see the midline was pretty close to the crosswalk but I would have thought grinding down a few feet or painting it yellow would have been enough. They also said there were no plans to remove them in other locations.
38th & Grand Ave Streetview image from two years ago following the Grand Ave reconstruction. Crosswalks have not been painted yet but they would likely be go very close the hardened center lines.
July 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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38th Street used to have space for grassy boulevards and trees large enough to provide a canopy over the road. Now the only trees we have are utility poles that obstruct pedestrian and wheelchair access.

Never forget what they took from us; Reject modernity, embrace tradition; RETVRN; etc
38th Street looking east from Park Ave with a grassy boulevard and trees tall enough to cover the road in a canopy of leaves. The year is 1946 and the picture was likely taken because Park Ave had just been converted to a one-way street to allow vehicles to travel faster through Minneapolis. Google Streetview from a similar vantagepoint in 2019 but now there are no trees on 38th Street. Sidewalks have minimal width and go right up to the street. The street is much wider. Utility poles placed on sidewalks obstruct pedestrian access and are an almost mocking reminder of what we used to have.
June 24, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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WOLVES IN 5
Metro Transit bus saying “Wolves in Five”
May 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Could that be the performance where Billie Joe Armstrong met his wife?
From Wikipedia: In 1990, Armstrong met Adrienne Nesser (the sister of professional skateboarder Steve Nesser) at one of Green Day's early performances in Minneapolis. They married on July 2, 1994, with Nesser discovering that she was pregnant the day after their wedding.
April 25, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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When do we start telling them they need to Join, or Die?
Join, or Die broken snake political cartoon from 1700s.
March 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Update: A car has taken out the fence at the corner and would have hit the house if not for a large tree.
Looking north at the northeast corner of 38th Street and Park Ave with a broken fence and damaged tree to the right of the frame. A damaged sign advertising Park and Portland safety improvements is on the left side of the frame.
March 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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I missed out on the original launch of @mnaurorafc.bsky.social but I made sure to be a part of this one.
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An outline of the state of Minnesota with the Minnesota Aurora branding in the center. The text says "Ope, I'm an owner. Minnesota Aurora"
January 30, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Sometimes I wonder how many people know about the associations with that number. I was surprised to see a Saint Paul Police Department squad car with the it. I don’t know the SPPD fleet numbering policy so maybe numbers 1480-1490 are all the same type/year but the number certainly caught my eye.
Saint Paul Police squad car with the fleet number 1488. Seen outside Cub Foods in the Midway. Regular black and white sedan cruiser
January 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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This damaged sign advertising safety improvement on Park and Portland avenues is perhaps a good indication of why we need safety improvements on Park and Portland.
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A sign saying “Park and Portland safety improvements. Construction begins in 2027”. The sign is on the right hand side of the road behind a traffic signal. The sign has been bent and damaged and appears to have been pushed against the traffic signal. The sign is held down with sand bags full of gravel. The image is looking north from 38th Street on Park Ave.
January 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Does anyone know why some Minneapolis street signs show a bike symbol even if they don't have any bike infrastructure? This example is from 38th St and Cedar Ave. The sign appears to have changed at some point between 2017 and 2019. @alexschief.bsky.social
A Google Streetview image showing the street sign for 38th Street with a bike symbol in front of the street name. On the right of the image is the 38th & Cedar decorative tower/sign.
January 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Here is the corridor in April when construction was in full swing.
November 24, 2024 at 2:00 AM
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Part two is from 28th Street to 26th Street
November 24, 2024 at 1:49 AM
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This year's construction on Hennepin Ave looks almost complete.
November 24, 2024 at 12:28 AM
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At the terminus of the Gold Line is a giant park-and-ride ramp. Across the street Washington County is building a new Central Service Center to replace the current service center on Radio Drive. It's great that the new Central Service Center will be transit accessible.
Looking north in the foreground are the outlines of foundations of a building and in the background is a parking ramp under construction. In October, the parking ramp has landscaping and driveways added. The Central Service Center is now several stories tall.
October 31, 2024 at 12:42 AM
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Tamarack Station in Woodbury now has shelters installed, red paint at the entrance of the bus lanes and station name pylons visible. The roadway looks very wide with two private vehicle lanes in each direction, turn lanes, and two bus lanes in the center.
Tamarack Station looking south on the Gold Lin. The road looks like an active construction site with cones and lanes closed. Asphalt lanes are on the outside with concrete interior lanes. Just the foundations of the stations are visible. Now shelters are visible along with landscaping, station name pylons, and traffic signals look further installed.
October 31, 2024 at 12:38 AM
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The new sign for the SunRay Mall is pretty stately but I still miss the garishness of the old green sign. The separate lanes for the Gold Line and the SunRay Station location are very visible in the second picture.
An image of the SunRay Shopping Center with the old green sign with white lettering on the left. The view looks west. The curb outlines of future roadways adjacent I-94 can be seen. The new sign shows more business names surrounded by a brown covering. The font is more modern and a city of Saint Paul logo is atop the sign. The frontage roads for SunRay and for the Gold Line are clearly visible.
October 31, 2024 at 12:32 AM
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There has been a lot of progress on the Gold Line since this summer as illustrated in these two images from July and October of 2024.
Partially complete bridge decks and pylons are seen looking east from SunRay Mall towards 3M in Maplewood over McKnight Road for the Gold LIne. Here roadway surfaces and bridges are mostly complete and a new pedestrian ramp up to the bridge can be seen from this view at a similar angle as the first picture.
October 31, 2024 at 12:29 AM
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MNUFC blast from the past: Here are two photos from April 2012 when the then Minnesota Stars FC played their season opener at the Metrodome. The previous season average attendance was around 1,600 so to see 8,500 fans at the Metrodome felt like a really big deal.
Zoomed in image of Minnesota Stars FC playing at the Metrodome. The lower bowl is mostly full, albeit only one half of the bowl was available to sit in. Player benches can be seen next to the field. The supporters section is in foreground of the image. An image from a similar location as the first but zoomed out showing more empty seats and a clear distinction of sections where seating was allowed or not.
October 20, 2024 at 5:34 PM
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There are as many people in the right lanes as there are in the left three lanes. 🚌
Bus in a red bus only lane next to three lanes of traffic with many cars in the other lanes.
September 24, 2024 at 12:08 AM
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New bus lane in action on Lyndale Ave near the Walker.
September 24, 2024 at 12:04 AM
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Where are you seeing less frequent service on Saturdays? I might be reading their reports wrong but Appendix A appears to be an increase
September 13, 2024 at 8:29 PM
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The tallest building on the south side of University Ave was the location of Saint Paul institution Porky’s Drive-In. The building and some signs were salvaged and are now located in Hastings.
Porky’s building with a yellow and black checkerboard pattern painted on the outside. Porky’s light up sign with the face of a pig and a top hat. A sign describing the history of Porky’s.
August 16, 2024 at 1:58 AM