mateo @mfrumholtz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Have you heard any news about the West Bank bike lane they got rid of this summer? There’s now a gorgeous mini park, but they kind of put it in the middle of the bike lane lol 200
mateo @mfrumholtz.bsky.social · 20/05/2026This is really cool! I’m curious what the thing on the rear axel is? Is that the derailleur? It’s kinda just sticking out? Thanks! 141
Reposted by mateoMaryMM @marymm.bsky.social · 06/01/2026I live in the toxic blast zone of I-94 and experience its awful effects nearly every day. This article is for my neighbors, my cities, and myself. We can and must do so much better with this project.startribune.comOpinion | It’s time to pause the I-94 projectDespite years of community engagement work through the "Rethinking I-94" project, MnDOT plans to rebuild the interstate more or less as it is today. A new vision is needed, Mary Morse Marti writes. 611427
mateo @mfrumholtz.bsky.social · 22/11/2025All great points! CRP data has unit information so we could try to get a “whole unit” rent estimate. And it’s not public but there is a way to anonymize the data. I pitched it to Commerce last spring and they are still considering it. May need some political pressure to get them to do it… 140
mateo @mfrumholtz.bsky.social · 22/11/2025We kind of already have one statewide actually. Starting in 2025 all landlords are required to submit Certificates of Rent Paid (CRP) to MN Commerce. Those include the number of months paid and the total rent paid - meaning we could estimate monthly rent. But they didn’t share the data when I asked 130
Reposted by mateoOur Streets @ourstreetsmn.org · 10/11/2025"If this rally is any indication, that period will likely be fraught with opposition to advancing the project without first exploring alternatives that do not involve rebuilding the highway." @mndot.mn.gov www.ourstreetsmn.org/2025/11/10/t...ourstreetsmn.orgTwin Cities Boulevard Supporters Swarm MnDOT at Public MeetingOver 100 Twin Cities Boulevard campaign supporters attended the Minnesota Department of Transportation's (MnDOT) public meeting at the Wilder Foundation in Saint Paul on Thursday, November 6. Supporte... 1265
Reposted by mateoOur Streets @ourstreetsmn.org · 06/11/2025"MnDOT is uninterested in seriously addressing climate change. This is climate defeatism; starting from the assumption that any action that fits the scale of looming climate destruction is too big to pursue." @mfrumholtz.bsky.social @lenasophia.bsky.social www.startribune.com/mndots-clima...startribune.com 1146
Reposted by mateoTony Zombie-ano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Published my first Op-Ed w/ Professor Ed Goetz on how the national narrative about Minneapolis misses how zoning and market rate housing are necessary but not sufficient to help lower-income renters 🧵 www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...startribune.comOpinion | We’re seeing haves and have-nots with Minneapolis rentsWhile the housing cost burden is easing overall, it’s not the case for lower-income renters, the authors write. 26824
Reposted by mateoOmar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com · 28/10/2025There's no such thing as a one man government. We need a Mayor ready to collaborate, build relationships, and ensure Minneapolis is taking a cross jurisdictional approach to solve the City's problems. 29127
mateo @mfrumholtz.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Reminds me of @equalityalec.bsky.social ‘s phenomenal talk in Minneapolis this week and how media “narrows” our perceptions. 020
mateo @mfrumholtz.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Lead, soot, toxic air pollution. Northern iron needs to go…minnpost.comWhy Northern Iron is far from a good neighbor in St. PaulHealth issues continue to be a problem in the Payne-Phalen neighborhood where Northern Iron produces metal castings and machine parts. 032
Reposted by mateoMichael Wilson @mwilsonmpls.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Access without safety is not equity. These lakes are ours together, and they must be safe for everyone! 0247
Reposted by mateoRobin for Ward 2 @robin4mpls.bsky.social · 15/09/2025My office has worked with UMN staff, students, and neighborhood leaders to craft a funding proposal that we presented to the University District Alliance (UDA) for approval. The proposal passed! 131
Reposted by mateoMichael Wilson @mwilsonmpls.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Thank you to everyone who came out to support us and this movement for a park system that puts people first! 🌳 Now, let’s keep going! Link in bio to get involved. #MichaelForParks #ParksForThepeople #MnplsParks 0296
Reposted by mateotaylr @taylordahlin.com · 15/07/2025what a shock, this is happening on nicollet mall. these events are part of plan to remove transit from nicollet mall by showing what they can do instead no such care is given to showing how the streetscape where nicollet mall transit would move will be improved bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...bringmethenews.comCity announces 'Big Honking Truck Parade' to be held in downtown MinneapolisA parade of big trucks from around the city aims to bring families to Downtown Minneapolis. 9688
Reposted by mateoOur Streets @ourstreetsmn.org · 14/07/2025There's still time to act. Take action to keep the Twin Cities Boulevard vision alive. youtu.be/fepz3l2Tn8Q?...youtu.beSave the Twin Cities BoulevardYouTube video by Our Streets 25426
Reposted by mateoElizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Within months, @mndot.mn.gov wants to remove all freeway removal options from its "Rethinking I-94" process--BEFORE the real environmental & health review 30 orgs, including 15 neighborhood associations, have signed onto this letter asking them to keep freeway removal in the mix You can sign too!betterthan94.orgBetter Than 94: Open Letter to Governor Walz and MnDOT Commissioner Daubenberger 311173
Reposted by mateoRacket @racketmn.com · 27/03/2025Racketcast gets timely!racketmn.comRacketCast, Ep. 18: Unions Shout WTF Over Guv's WFH Reversal feat. MAPE - RacketUnion honcho Megan Dayton says her membership is outraged. 0103
Reposted by mateoJoe Vital @joevital.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Minneapolis can’t seem to do right by East Phillips so the gloves are off again. EPNI will be providing emergency box fan filters for the community free of charge, and it is exploring legal action. If the system won’t protect us (again) we will. www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...startribune.comMinneapolis cites demolition crew tearing down Smith Foundry after pollution caught on videoNeighbors near the foundry, which operated for roughly a century in the East Phillips neighborhood until last year, have worried for weeks about dust escaping the site. 15620
Reposted by mateoMaryMM @marymm.bsky.social · 19/03/2025ICYMI: while people in MSP fight to keep MnDOT from rebuilding I-94 in our already polluted neighborhoods, people in Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center are being muzzled in their efforts to keep @mndot.bsky.social and their consultants from turning 252 into a highway. ***SHAME***sahanjournal.com 1106
mateo @mfrumholtz.bsky.social · 21/02/2025This thread is exactly why I made this map. Data needs context. The map the city made answers an important question: who in the city bears the biggest brunt of highway exposure? But highways are meant for regional transport and the map on the right shows us that we all pay a big price for it. 1229
Reposted by mateoRachel Widome @rwidome.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Melissa and I wrote about our research being purged... www.minnpost.com/community-vo...minnpost.comOur published work in a government journal curiously disappearedSeveral studies for a CDC journal were purged without explanation before a judge’s order restored them. That's unacceptable. 11417268
Reposted by mateoSahan Journal @sahanjournal.bsky.social · 13/02/2025The Office of the Legislative Auditor says the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency was out of alignment with federal compliance standards, and should also improve how it handles complaints from the public. By Andrew Hazzardsahanjournal.comNew report on Smith Foundry says state should better align pollution evaluation with federal standardsA new report from the Office of the Legislative Auditor on the Smith Foundry pollution says the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency needs to improve its standards and response to public complaints. 083
Reposted by mateoStreets.mn @streets.mn · 04/02/2025"The highway blighted the neighborhood in ways that led to further destruction in the 1970s, when HUD removed 60-plus other houses. It was only through major neighborhood opposition that every house in the place wasn’t condemned in order to convert the whole area into industrial zoning."streets.mnLost South St. Anthony ParkSouth St. Anthony Park’s homes, businesses and even a church disappeared for Highway 280. What was lost, and what still survives? 0237
Reposted by mateoMinneapolis for the Many @mplsforthemany.com · 31/01/2025A beautiful new piece in the Star Tribune shows how @MNDOT’s decision on Rethinking 94 is putting our futures in jeopardy. With a once-in-a-generation chance to make lasting positive change, MnDOT is putting our communities at risk. buff.ly/4hxQi3c 2265
Reposted by mateoMaryMM @marymm.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Keep it coming, young Jedi.streets.mnStreet Views: Mapping Highways’ FootprintOur twice-monthly columnist maps the impact and “rethinking” imposed on urban communities during the original freeway boom. 031
Reposted by mateoMaryMM @marymm.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Getting to the core of MnDOT's depraved highway analysis. They're poisoning us on purpose.startribune.comMnDOT’s climate defeatism: Why won’t they let us consider living more sustainably?The case for a different kind of road where I-94 runs now. 14611
Reposted by mateoSahan Journal @sahanjournal.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Neighbors complain about pollution from Northern Iron as the St. Paul foundry continues legal fight with the state. Written by Andrew Hazzard.sahanjournal.com‘I want to run away from here.’ Neighbors complain about pollution from St. Paul foundry.Northern Iron and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency are still engaged in a legal fight over pollution levels. Neighbors say dust and soot from the facility continues. 084
Reposted by mateoConnor Stratton @connormstratton.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Read this scathing analysis by @twincitiesdsa.bsky.social, @ourstreetsmn.org, & MN Communities over Highways Coalition of @mndot.bsky.social's plan to cut the boulevard option re: 94: twincitiesdsa.org/2025/01/just... then tell MnDot what you think on friday! wsbeng.zoom.us/webinar/regi...twincitiesdsa.orgJust Vibes: Evaluating MnDOT’s Rethinking I-94 Alternative ScoresMnDOT is “confident in their analysis”. They shouldn’t be. Report authored by Mateo Frumholtz in collaboration with TCDSA, Our Streets, and the Minnesota Communities over Highways Coalition. … 02111
Reposted by mateoElizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Have you thought to yourself, “I wish I understood how the MN Dept of Transport decided to remove from consideration the seemingly most popular option —freeway removal — and whether their reasoning was abjectly, laughably bad”? Have I got a report for you! twincitiesdsa.org/2025/01/just...twincitiesdsa.orgJust Vibes: Evaluating MnDOT’s Rethinking I-94 Alternative ScoresMnDOT is “confident in their analysis”. They shouldn’t be. Report authored by Mateo Frumholtz in collaboration with TCDSA, Our Streets, and the Minnesota Communities over Highways Coalition. Just … 2268
Reposted by mateoBill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 14/01/2025I wrote about bollards. Apparently they're controversial? MOAR BOLLARDS, I say! www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...minnpost.comBollards: oft-forgotten urban pawns but essential to public safetyTragedy on Bourbon Street brought into focus that simple urban infrastructure like bollards should be part of public safety strategy. 12899
