Twin City Lampposts #34

 

[Grand Marais.]

[Los Angeles, CA.]

[Los Angeles, CA.]

[Los Angeles, CA.]

[Los Angeles, CA.]

[Los Angeles, CA.]

[Los Angeles, CA.]

[San Francisco, CA.]

[San Francisco, CA.]

[San Francisco, CA.]

With Highway 280 Closed, Why No Green Line Priority?

[Highway 280 being completely reconstructed just north of Territorial Road.]

Anyone who has talked to me about the Green Line for more than a minute knows how I feel about the train’s constant, maddening, interminable signal priority problem. The Green Line stops unnecessarily at far too many intersections as it travels through St. Paul, adding 10% to trip times even in the best circumstances. 

There’s a lot to complain about with these inadequate signals and misplaced priorities, but the worst offender is the onramp / frontage roads at Highway 280. These are not key intersections. They often carry small numbers of trucks and cars to their freeway entrances. Yet the Green Line train, carrying dozens or hundreds of people, always stops and wait to cross these streets, held for a most single-occupant vehicles.

Well, friend, the only thing worse than stopping at the Highway 280 on-ramps over and over again, slowing down transit for traffic exiting a freeway, is stopping at the Highway 280 on-ramps over and over again, slowing down transit for traffic exiting a freeway when that freeway is closed for over three months. 

That’s what’s happening now. Highway 280 is completely closed for a huge reconstruction project until late August. There’s zero traffic going down this aging, badly designed road that runs along the Minneapolis and St. Paul border. Frontage road traffic is a tiny fraction of its normal volume.

Yet the Green Line is still stopping at the stoplights.

This summer would be a great time to test out giving the Green Line to signal priority. Couldn’t the powers that be — MN-DOT, St. Paul, Metro Transit — tweak the stoplights  until the state fair? See how much time savings is on the table. How hard can that be?

Twin City Doorways #78

 

[Dinkytown, Minneapolis.]

[Downtown, Minneapolis.]

[Southeast, Minneapolis.]

[Los Angeles, CA.]

[Los Angeles, CA.]

[Los Angeles, CA.]

[San Francisco, CA.]

[San Francisco, CA.]

[San Francisco, CA.]

[San Francisco, CA.]

You're Not From Here #13: Lakewood, Philadelphia, and Las Vegas

It's time for another round of You're Not From Here, Are You? We're entering Year #2 with a BANG, three amazing cities that could not be more different: Lakewood, Philadelphia, and Las Vegas. We'll be talking to Ron, Christian, and Ashe (respectively) about their home towns. 

Don't miss it at the Black Hart of St. Paul, the nation's premiere queer soccer bar. 7pm! Free as always, and fun as usual. Learn about your neighbors alongside a dash of urban geography. See you there! 

Signs of the Times #194

 

BLOCK

PARTY

[Asphalt. Lex-Ham, St. Paul.]

Thai Boat 89

is closed for

this summer season.

We are currently

runnign and focused

on our foot trucks.

Will update when

our restaurant

open again in the

fall Thx.

[Door. University Avenue, St. Paul.]

FUCK

Injustice

Cruelty

Execution

[House. Selby Avenue, St. Paul.]

WAKE UP ST PAUL

YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS

ARE UNDER ATTACK

FEDERAL OUCCPATION DOENS'T

END BY ITSELF

Call your friends. Talk to your neighbors.

SHOW. UP. NOW.

[Pole. Cathedral Hill, St. Paul.]

ask us about our

TIE DYE CLASSES

& 

TIE DYE PARTIES

[Door. San Francisco, CA.]

A person was hit and killed

in a traffic crash here on

March 5, 2026

[Pole. San Francisco, CA.]

Brandy Ho's Hunan Food

After 45 years of serving our

community.

we will permanently clsoe on

December 28, 2025.

Thank you for your loyal

support and memories.

[Door. San Francisco, CA.]

PLEASE 

WRAP LINE

AROUND THIS

CORNER :)

Thank you!

[Window. San Francisco, CA.]

starting 3/11/26 we will

move to New Anndress

1800 Fillmore streert!!!

Larger SPOT!!!

1800 Fillmore STreert!!!

Se you guys there!!!

[Door. San Francisco, CA.]

NOTICE

This area may contain chemicals

known to he State of California

to cause canter, birth defects, or

other reproductive harm.

[Wall. San Francisco, CA.]