roadrunnertwice: MPLS, MN skyline at sundown.  (Minneapolis - Sunset in the city)
Nick Eff ([personal profile] roadrunnertwice) wrote in [community profile] bicycles2010-03-26 11:54 pm
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Via Peace Coffee's Facebook links (via my college buddy Julia), it looks like Bicycling Magazine named Minneapolis, MN the #1 bike city in the country. Fuck yeah, way to go City of Lakes! My beloved City of Roses pulled in in no. 2, it looks like, which I am fine with. My adopted hometowns own the top two, that is badass any way you slice it. (Confidential to Portlandia: STEP IT UP)

SO! We got any Minneapolitans in the house?

(Also, a random mention in the article seems to imply that the Grease Pit did in fact get re-established at some point, which does my heart no end of good.)
aedifica: Drawing of a bicycle with the logo "Put the fun between your legs." (Bike fun)

[personal profile] aedifica 2010-03-28 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
Woohoo! Yep, I'm in Mpls. And the Grease Pit is right next to that one small theatre whose name I'm blanking on. (I pass it on the way to one of my usual LBSes, Freewheel Cycle.)
aedifica: Drawing of a bicycle with the logo "Put the fun between your legs." (Bike fun)

[personal profile] aedifica 2010-03-28 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, it's the Bedlam, thank you!

P.S. And it's just off one of the tributaries to the Midtown Greenway bike path--seems like it must be a good location for a bike place!
Edited (add postscript) 2010-03-28 03:13 (UTC)
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[personal profile] darkemeralds 2010-03-29 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
Well, Portland can't be "it" every year, and Minneapolis is always right up there in the lists. I was in Minneapolis last summer and I sure felt right at home!

Portlandia is stepping it up, though: Mayor Sam just found $20M "seed money" to start funding the Bike Plan. Of course, it will probably get him voted out of office, if not recalled, but I thought it was a bold move. Someone's gotta say that in hard economic times, encouraging cheap-to-free transportation makes sense.