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Erik Noonan @eriknoonan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

If you care at all about land use reform and smarter transportation in Minnesota, listen to this. @ianrbuck.bsky.social put in a ton of effort, countless hours of interviews and background research. Thank you to every organization who discussed the session with us!

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I saw an image from some city probably in Europe that inspired that idea, and I've been disappointed that I've never managed to find that picture again.

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Well, if they write a book, that would make it easier to have them on a book club episode! Aside from that, we usually seek out guests who have a Minnesota connection.

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Yeah, the language says that the light must stay red "for an unreasonable time" and that the light must be malfunctioning or won't change because it hasn't detected the bicycle. Which are all pretty hard to determine concretely when you're out in the field! www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cit...

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Sec. 169.06 MN Statutes

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I've had Nextcloud sitting at about 80% all set up for the last six months. I may never get to that last 20%.

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I had your 2021 tweet in mind when I put together my bingo card.

A five-by-five bingo card with predictions of things that will happen in 2026. The top right space reads "New Bo Burnham... thing."

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Until I see a published plan that includes bus lanes, I'm going to assume there won't be any.

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Pretty bummed that they're not fully implementing the W 7th St plan that St Paul and Metro Transit announced last year. It might come in bits and pieces, but I'm afraid that we'll be stuck with aBRT for a long long time.

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Regina Burstein @mplsfietser.bike · 14/01/2026

My partner @jasoncapsaicin.bsky.social made a step by step guide on how to break up ice in your neighborhood in Minnesota. Enjoy!

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Not a high enough confidence interval, more experiments are needed.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Someone remake “It’s a Wonderful Life” but Mr. Potter believes that hoarding is morally required so he can devote resources to delivering a far future with trillions of humans while George Bailey is like, “Gosh Darnit! What if taking care of people today is what takes care of people in the future?!”

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I don't think that the problem is political campaigns on the left not creating good YouTube content; the problem is with the habit of watching 3+ hours of YouTube a day. Bowling Alone found TV watch time to be the strongest correlation with low social capital, and this seems like the modern equiv.

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Streets.mn @streets.mn · 18/10/2025

"On October 4 2025, Move Minnesota’s Livable Lyndale campaign hosted a “Stroll & Roll” rally to showcase what the experience will be like if Lyndale is reconstructed with a shared use path, as the current county design calls for. Here is a collection of testimonials from people in attendance."

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How Mixing Bikes And Pedestrians On Lyndale Feels

YouTube video by StreetsMN

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Could you include a picture or link to the Stanley diagram that Todd walks us through in the episode show notes? I'm having trouble visualizing it in my head.

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Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I was interviewed here, and did my best to remember how this all started!

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 29/08/2025

john mentioned a homeowner coming out who said that putting in a path would change the character of the lake. i recognized him - it’s james, the elizabeth shaffer delegate from ward 7 convention who was the subject of a credentials challenge due to donating to republicans bsky.app/profile/tayl...

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 29/08/2025

Here's the triumphant unfurling of the banner.

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Stina @stinah.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Minneapolis bike pals! Anyone looking for a 1 bedroom apartment (first floor) in a quadplex of other bike people? Locked garage available, secure underground storage too, cat friendly, and you get to be my neighbor! Rent is approx $1,000 a month and includes water, trash, heat.

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Check out the Google App Script attached to my spreadsheet, you can modify it to make the Google Maps API calls you need.

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I suppose some of them are acquaintances, but "friends, family, and acquaintances" doesn't really roll off the tongue. 😆

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I'm sure you have some people you hang out with more often than other people. A spectrum of friends, family, and acquaintances. What do you mean by "accessibility" here?

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Brings to mind this news article from the early days of the pandemic: minnesotareformer.com/briefs/minne...

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

What's creepy about this to you?

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Weighted average. The way they truncated the quote for the social media post removed that important context.

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

That was my first instinct, but the direct distance often doesn't reflect our real-world experiences. Barriers like rivers or highways can make two points feel farther apart, and amenities like rapid transit and bike trails can make two points feel closer together.

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Streets.mn @streets.mn · 09/08/2025

"I created a spreadsheet that allows you to put in a list of friends, their address and a weight for each. It will tell you what the average travel time by bike or transit is from each neighborhood in Minneapolis to each of your friends..." - @ianrbuck.bsky.social

streets.mn

Respect the Friend-Density Matrix

Maximize your ability to hang out with friends by using this spreadsheet, which helps you match a place to live with proximity to them!

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

You're a sneaky photographer!

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Time to dig a bike tunnel under the railroad tracks!

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Peter Wagenius @peterwagenius.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

We recorded this before Speaker Hortman was stolen from us. Now I can hear what we took for granted. We shared a short example of her leadership and it seemed like a given. It’s not. Nobody could have handled a tied House like she did. We owe her so much. #mnleg podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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The 2025 Legislative Wrap-up

Podcast Episode · Streets.mn Podcast · 06/16/2025 · 58m

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Except when you reach Snelling!

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Consider that those are tasks that can be done by transit ambassadors, and it's better if those tasks aren't done by someone who is also trying to focus on operating a vehicle. That should be the goal of automating transit vehicles.

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Feels like I-94 back home, eh?

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

My guiding star is "wrong answers only."

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I don't understand what the connection is with the quoted post.

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Brian Mitchell @brianmitchl.com · 13/04/2025

I was imagining this meme while biking past a mile of backed up cars with @ianrbuck.bsky.social on Marshall Avenue in Saint Paul earlier this week, and he made it real!

Meme with two images. The first has a person captioned with "I-94 construction gridlock" and the character saying "I feel bad for you" and the second is captioned with "bike commuters" saying "I don't think about you at all."

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

They got me with "assuming a spherical cow"

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 28/03/2025

The Ward 8 episodes of the Wedge LIVE podcast are so popular that I ran into a ward 10 resident at Lake of the Isles wasting his time listening to one of them.

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Stina @stinah.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Moving an entire apartment via bicycles! @ianrbuck.bsky.social is moving across town, so we got three ebikes and a few trailers and got to work. 2 trips later and Ian's place has desks, a bed, table, bookshelf and a couch!

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I'm going to blame one here instead of zero. There's no reason that we had to have a singular case at all; in Esperanto, for example, the word "estas" means "is/are" regardless of how many things there are.

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

The members of the state legislature who represent our urban core would never go for an arrangement that isn't population representative. And since the legislature is population representative, we should be safe there.

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

That may be so, but Hennepin and Ramsey would have more representatives for their greater population. And having to balance the needs of the urban core and the suburbs is way better than having Metro area decisions being at the whims of voters from across the state.

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I'll keep my ears to the ground, and we will certainly dig into it if the proposal to replace it with bus service gains any traction.

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Ian R Buck @ianrbuck.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Clarification: we were talking about making the Met Council into elected officials, accountable directly to voters in the Metro area.

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