John Levin

@jlstp.bsky.social

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Saint Paul (and Minneapolis) - public transportation - biking - reimagining urban form

Photo of a store aisle with toy skeletons in the foreground and bags of candy in the background
Text of clip: Mall of America spokeswoman Monica Davis said the owners are willing to allow a light rail stop at the transit center but won't be contributing any money to help build it. Davis said the owners spent $2 million on the bus facility when the shopping center was built. She said most of the mall's customers arrive by car, and while the owners agree light rail will be a benefit to the community they don't believe it will benefit the mall. "So, with about 80 percent of our traffic coming by car and by truck, the other ten percent coming in public transportation and then filling in from hotel shuttles, and taxis and airport shuttles our guests are already finding a way to come into the building and so we're not seeing light rail as solving any problems from a traffic standpoint or getting any people into our building," Davis said.
Photo of a sticker
Photo of a “domed” capacitor for an air conditioner compressor unit.
Photograph of a man’s face in front of “The Calling” metal sculpture of a loon. The man and the loon are both looking up and to the right in the same general direction.
Column chart from slide presentation titled "Speeding dropped >40% at all locations"
Drawing of people standing on boxes to watch a baseball game over a fence
Overlaid isochrone maps showing areas reached by driving and transit.
Screenshot of Transit app at Jefferson Park Transit Center
Image of the runway at Meigs Field in Chicago shortly after it was destroyed in March 2003 under orders from Mayor Dailey to force the closure of the airport.
Screenshot from Transit app with text “You opened the app an impressive 1737 times over 186 different days”
Map of Minnesota county outlines highlighting Cook County
Photo of the front of a Route 21 bus
Image of the "I can has cheezburger" cat
A photo of a square bus stop sign with a blue pictogram of the front of a bus, the words BUS STOP in green, the letters MTA, and a small circular design logo
A photograph of a beautiful pineapple upside down cake
Photo of a road sign on a pole that reads “Buses Exempt”
Photo of a METRO Green Line train
A photo of a man wearing a headband with four colorful lit up Christmas lightbulbs.
A pedestrian bridge over the freeway at Cedar Grove Station
Brief video of the Lake Michigan shoreline on a windy winter day
Giant metal loom sculpture from the back with a METRO A Line bus under one wing
Photo of the front of Seward Cafe