Eoin Roux 🏙️⚽️🚲🚌🚃

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Twin Cities resident interested in cities, soccer, bikes, buses, and trains.

Streetcar tracks in the foreground on Chicago Ave at 39th St. Image is looking north towards the center of George Floyd Square where street construction has started. To the right is a church.
Facebook post from Joe Atkins, County Commissioner Happy 61st birthday, Inver Grove Heights! Did you know that if it weren't for the Miami Dolphins - and their owner Joe Robbie's dream of owning an NFL team - Inver Grove Heights might not exist today? In the early 1960s, metro planners were seriously considering combining a huge stretch of Dakota County- including Eagan, Rosemount, Apple Valley, Lakeville, Burnsville, and Inver Grove - into a single 180-square-mile "megacity" that would have dwarfed both Minneapolis and St. Paul. The powerful chair of the Metropolitan Municipal Commission at the time was St. Paul attorney Joe Robbie, who strongly supported creating one giant city in central Dakota County. But Robbie had another dream: owning an NFL team. With help from entertainer Danny Thomas, he raised $7.5 million to purchase a franchise and moved to Florida to establish the Miami Dolphins. With Robbie focused on building pro football in South Florida instead, local citizens and elected officials moved quickly - and successfully - to create the communities we know today. So in a strange twist of history, the Miami Dolphins helped make Inver Grove Heights possible. Happy birthday, IGH!
Tweet by dieworkwear saying, “i dont know who needs to hear this, but your identity is not your job. your identity is a sick ass jacket everyone recognizes you by”
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.
Layout of Cedar Ave near Little Earth. The bridge remains but the crossing distance is reduced and a median instead.
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.
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.
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.
Metro Transit bus saying “Wolves in Five”
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.
Join, or Die broken snake political cartoon from 1700s.
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.
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"
Saint Paul Police squad car with the fleet number 1488. Seen outside Cub Foods in the Midway. Regular black and white sedan cruiser
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.
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.
Hennepin Ave S torn up for reconstruction in April 2024. A red bus lane is still visible as well as construction equipment.
Overhead shot of Hennepin Ave S from 28th St to 26th St. Roads and bike lanes look mostly complete but landscaping still needs work. The shot finishes with downtown Minneapolis in the distance.
An overhead drone shot of Hennepin Ave heading north from Lake Street towards 28th Street. The footage shows the new street configuration with bike lanes, a median, bus/parking lanes.
Looking north in the foreground are the outlines of foundations of a building and in the background is a parking ramp under construction.
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.
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.
Partially complete bridge decks and pylons are seen looking east from SunRay Mall towards 3M in Maplewood over McKnight Road for the Gold LIne.
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.
Bus in a red bus only lane next to three lanes of traffic with many cars in the other lanes.
A Route 6 bus traveling on a red bus only lane passes traffic on Lyndale Ave.
Porky’s building with a yellow and black checkerboard pattern painted on the outside.
Andy’s Eat Now with a cute mural showing streetcars and light rail vehicles converging.
Fairview Ave station looking east with several story apartment buildings on either side of the station.
Fresh coat of red paint.
List of 16 Metropolitan Council members and often they rode transit. 2 members rode over 100 times, 3 members rode about 20 times, 4 members rode between 1-8 times. 7 members did not ride at all.
A small street called "The Mongoose Ave" just north of Olson Memorial Highway near I-94.
$11 Monday and Friday, $13 Tuesday-Thursday
The station looks mostly complete next to a freight train flyover and unfinished park and ride lot.
A view of the center island platform that looks substantially complete.
Beltline Blvd looking towards downtown with the trail bridge cross the tracks.
West Lake Street Station with a staircase leading up to Lake Street.
Parking $8 Mon/Fri. $9 on Tue-Thu
Pageviews for the Wikipedia article on Don Samuels with major spikes around the time he announced his new campaign.
Looking east on Lake Street from Nicollet Ave with downtown Saint Paul in the far distance.
An aerial photo of the Kmart site blocking Nicollet Ave looking north towards downtown.
Appleton Transit Center viewed from above with seven buses at the hourly pulse time.
View of the Kmart site on Nicollet Ave with downtown in the background and I-35W on the right.
Bus only lane on Lake Street in Minneapolis