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Adam Smith

@adamnsmith.bsky.social
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Minneapolitan; transit rider and worker; CPFC and MNUFC supporter; habitable climate enthusiast. Opinions are mine but I’m good at sharing.

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Seattle Department of Transportation @transportation.seattle.gov · 9h
Halloween is coming. You don’t have to go to a “trunk-or-treat” event in Seattle! You can close your neighborhood street to through-traffic – for free! Trick-or-Streets permits are free and easy to get. Join here: seattle.gov/transportation/trick-or-streets
The ancient two-panel Drake meme. On the top, he's looking away in disgust and holding his hand up. The text next to it says "Truck-or-treat". On the bottom, he looks pleased and is pointing toward text that says "Close your street".
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Katie Cashman @katiecashman.bsky.social · 16h
Love to see the New Nicollet nearing completion. (Former K Mart site). Best part is definitely going to be how the 18 bus route will speed up without having to detour.
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City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov · 28/09/2026
Calling downtown commuters! We’re celebrating Transit to Work Day this Wednesday, Sept. 30 from 7-9 a.m. Enjoy free coffee and donuts, weigh in on local transit, and grab a selfie with Metro Transit’s mascot, Skip Traffic. See you near the giant wind turbine blade at Nicollet Mall & S 5th St.
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Did you know: cities used to have balloons that would just follow children to school, until General Motors bought all the balloons and scrapped them
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Metro Transit (Official) @metrotransitmn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We are excited to welcome you onboard the extension of the METRO Green Line beginning June 12, 2027! To learn more visit www.metrotransit.org/green-line
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Sierk @sierkulator.monster · 26/09/2026
It's Saturday's #BlueSkyArtShow and the theme is #Lights. Presidio Trolleybus Depot (San Francisco, California, December 2016)
A view of a San Francisco trolleybus depot, just before sunrise, filled with rows of trolleybuses parked under overhead wires, inside the buses the lights are one. In the background, the city skyline is silhouetted against a dim but colorful early morning sky.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 26/09/2026
The new route extension will include 16 stations from Target Field in Minneapolis to Eden Prairie, including stops in St. Louis Park, Hopkins and Minnetonka.
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Green Line Extension to Eden Prairie, southwest Twin Cities begins operation June 2027
The new route extension will include 16 stations from Target Field in Minneapolis to Eden Prairie, including stops in St. Louis Park, Hopkins and Minnetonka.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 25/09/2026
I didn’t attend climate week but: 1—US is falling way behind on electrification 2—even if US electrified, electricity generation isn’t decarbonizing fast enough 3—public incentives & land use policy are still vastly weighted toward inefficient cars & trucks 4—transit ridership remains in crisis
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MinnPost @minnpost.com · 24/09/2026
"Even by the lax standards of the United States, where automobile companies go for decades with minimum government guardrails, the automated vehicle industry has been a brazen example of the dangers of libertarian capitalism," writes Bill Lindeke in this week's Cityscape column.
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What should Minneapolis do about Waymo?
A human in the driver’s seat of a driverless taxi won’t solve some of the bigger headaches brought on by Waymo’s arrival.
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Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NEXT WEDNESDAY: @minneapolismn.gov, @metrotransitmn.bsky.social, and MVTA are celebrating Transit to Work Day in downtown Minneapolis! Stop by 5th and Nicollet between 7-9 am for coffee, donuts, stickers, and more!
Join us in celebrating Transit to Work Day!

Wednesday, September 30th, 7-9 am, Xcel Plaza (Nicollet Mall and S 5th Street).
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 22/09/2026
As the climate scientist Wally Broecker memorably put it, "the climate is an angry beast and we are poking it with sticks". The more we push the climate system past where its been for the past few million years, the bigger the risks of larger changes becomes.
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Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Seriously don’t forget your free Metro Transit pass today - no better way to explore the Taco Tour than via B Line! www.surveymonkey.com/r/2026LakeSt...
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Event Transit Pass Survey -Lake Street Taco Tour - September 19, 2026
Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.
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Metro Transit (Official) @metrotransitmn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This has been a big summer for our BRT lines, with record-setting monthly ridership on the Gold Line, Orange Line, and E Line. The B Line and D Line also had their second-busiest months ever this summer. Thank you for riding with us!
Passengers boarding a blue and white Metro bus at a city stop on a busy day.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/09/2026
I love this slide. I really don't think the geopolitical implications of the clean energy transition have sunk in for most people.
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 13/09/2026
Pretty cool-sounding bakery will fill the former Sun Street Breads space later this fall. Former Rustica head baker. mspmag.com/eat-and-drin...
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Coming Soon: Evergreen Café from Pastry Chef Shawn McKenzie
McKenzie is taking over the old Sun Street Breads space and opening an Oregon-informed, Pacific Northwest-accented café that promises to be the biggest baking news of our year.
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bcmcdowell @bcmcdowell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Do that 3 more times, Tomas. #MNUFC
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Adam Smith @adamnsmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It’s that time again
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Adam Smith @adamnsmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m not sure I’ve ever been on a bus with 6 other active @transit.app users. A whole group of sad MNUFC fans making sure that the location of this 94 is well-established.
Screenshot from the transit app showing 7 users tracking this Route 94 bus
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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 08/09/2026
We should be electrifying school bus fleets as fast as possible
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Adam Smith @adamnsmith.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My mind at the State Fair:
Sign in the Agriculture Building at the Minnesota State Fair reading “TEMPORARILY CLOSED FOR JUDGING
WILL BE OPEN     “
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026
We're just hurtling toward immense destruction & suffering & the entire US political class has agreed it's better not to talk about it. "Insanity" barely covers it.
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U.N. Says World Will Miss Its 1.5-Degree Climate Target
Carbon removal combined with emissions reduction is the only remaining pathway to avert catastrophic levels of warming, a new report warns.
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Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We have lost one of the 20th century's most important voices for ecological sanity. Wendell Berry, RIP.
Wendell Berry
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Adam Smith @adamnsmith.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
During the State Fair, everybody bikes in St. Paul
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Cyclingnews @cyclingnews.com · 29/08/2026
Tadej Pogačar abandons the Vuelta a España after crash on stage 8 www.cyclingnews.com/pro-cycling/...
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Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I rode along with some TRIPs agents, and wrote about the light rail fare checking/vibe shift efforts. Check it out: www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...
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Fare compliance is real, but the bigger goal is to change the transit vibe
Using a variety of staffing strategies, Metro Transit is making progress with safety initiatives on light rail trains.
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Stinamo @stinamo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
ATTN my fellow Route 38 and 46 riders/potential riders: Service improvements & route changes are proposed! Please comment! I am personally so excited that every 38 trip would go to Highland, and that there's more frequency planned: www.metrotransit.org/network-now/...
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Metro Transit - Network Now
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Jack Barton @jackkbarton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thank you, Dolly. You made an impact on this spinning ball. I shall deal with your passing with humour as I am British and that's what we do. #Dolly #RIPDolly
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/08/2026
Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.
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Minnesota United FC @mnufc.com · 23/08/2026
IT'S FLASHY. IT'S CHEEKY. IT'S JOAQUÍN WITH THE RABONA.
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Jon Marthaler @jonmarthaler.com · 20/08/2026
update: hype train on a siding and waiting for a freight train to pass, curse these freight train priority rules
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
www.bbc.com/news/article... Another reason to embrace electrification - healthier children.
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Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone
Children's lung capacity caught up with their peers in less polluted areas once a clean air zone came in, a study shows.
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Adam Smith @adamnsmith.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
6-year-olds are fun because they ask you questions like “What was the most recent disaster?”
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Adam Smith @adamnsmith.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
That’s 3 assists in ~25 minutes for Caldeira all to Pereyra… seems like that combination is working at least.
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Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
MLS needs to shift the league schedule to "alternate timeline where we jail big oil execs and get serious about addressing global warming in the 1990s."
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Metro Transit (Official) @metrotransitmn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Notice something different? METRO station displays on bus rapid transit lines now show predicted departure times and the locations of approaching buses. The “Show My Bus” feature launched systemwide this week after a successful State Fair pilot last year.
Digital transit display at Hennepin & 5th Street showing bus arrival times and route details in an urban setting.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13/08/2026
superb work from @nerd4cities.bsky.social youtu.be/J1qNbIbD4ro?...
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Is Minneapolis Too Nice for Its Own Good?
YouTube video by Ray Delahanty | CityNerd
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drewbkerr.bsky.social @drewbkerr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Neat little improvement to these real-time displays from @metrotransitmn.bsky.social
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 05/08/2026
In the US, zero emissions buses accounted for only 5.6% of total new bus registrations in recent data theicct.org/publication/... US is absolutely falling behind on this metric, and things seem to be getting worse in recent months.
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Pedaling Professor @pedalingprof.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I love living in an accessible place. Walked to the end of the block, caught a rapid bus that comes every 10 minutes. Rode it less than 2 miles to a library branch, grabbed my hold items (shout out to public libraries!), and hopped on the next bus back that came in a couple minutes. The dream.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/07/2026
about half of centrists and the center-left for some reason concluded that climate change was passe hippie bullshit that doesn't matter, and we're about to learn how wrong that was, the hard way prospect.org/2026/07/28/c...
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The Strongest El Niño in History Is Coming. Get Ready. - The American Prospect
Donald Trump has no ideas, but America is ready for a U-turn on climate change.
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NPR @npr.org · 26/07/2026
When summer rolls around, many parents scramble to sign up their young kids for outdoor activities. But what do you do when extreme heat and wildfire smoke increasingly make the outdoors dangerous? n.pr/4bd0MnV
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Climate change is now threatening a pillar of childhood: summer break
When summer rolls around, many parents scramble to sign up their young kids for outdoor activities. But what do you do when extreme heat and wildfire smoke increasingly make the outdoors dangerous?
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Adam Smith @adamnsmith.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Thought from Allianz Field at the half: has anyone ever invaded a pitch solely to run through the sprinklers?
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
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Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
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Conrad Lange Zbikowski @czbi.org · 19/07/2026
Current air quality at I-35W and 35th Street South in Minneapolis, Minnesota is AQI 162, “unhealthy.” Carbon dioxide emissions caused by human combustion of hydrocarbons is a primary driver of climate change and increased wildfires.
Interstate 35W and the downtown Minneapolis skyline where A light up highway sign says “air quality alert. Consider reducing trips.”
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
My four year old was asking me today about what I did with Grandma on days when it was too hot or too smoky to play outside, and. Oof
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 16/07/2026
The fire and smoke making it unsafe to be outside is "a direct product of the greenhouse gases humans keep emitting. In Minnesota, transportation is the single largest source of those emissions, and personal automobiles are the biggest slice." www.bikemn.org/moving-under...
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Moving Under Smokey Skies - Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota
The smoke is back, here are some tips and recommendations for keeping active while also keeping your lungs healthy.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 11/07/2026
Serviceberries, or juneberries, are a native fruit beloved by wildlife. But now they’re moving from backyards to farms, and some hope they’ll soon be on your plate.
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Serviceberries are a sweet native fruit — and these Midwesterners want you to try them
Serviceberries, or juneberries, are a native fruit beloved by wildlife. But now they’re moving from backyards to farms, and some hope they’ll soon be on your plate.
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Adam Smith @adamnsmith.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
@stutheeditor.bsky.social I think I spotted your crew!
Photo of a TV with fans waving flags as the Tour de France peloton passesPhoto of a TV with fans waving flags as the Tour de France peloton passes
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Adam Smith @adamnsmith.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
It looks like a new bakery is planning to open at Nicollet & 46th Street. 👀 The new dark green paint job convinced me to do some sleuthing on the City’s permitting website…
Screenshot of permit website describing scope, including “Remodel existing bakery for new bakery tenant. No change of occupancy… Tenant: Evergreen”
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