10 Sure Signs You’re a Twin Cities Urbanist

In the style of Buzzfeed, I present to you… a waste of time for 30 seconds.

1) Every time you go past the Lake Street K-Mart, you are like…

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2) You truly think some omnipotent, but incompetent being chose where SWLRT will run.

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3) Whenever you have time to meander on walkable streets, you let people know.

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4) You hear about Metro Transit’s plan to increase bus frequency around the region…

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 5) … but then reality hits when you miss the last 115 bus back to Uptown.

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6) You feel awesome when you defy safety logic and bike down Lyndale Avenue…

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7) …But feel even better when you get to the Midtown Greenway and can just cruise without battling dozens of Subaru Outbacks.

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 8) You get more excited & anxious about a proposed mixed-use tower on Nicollet Mall than pretty much any other thing in life.

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 9) The new Green Line is great… but MAN, you know it could be much faster.

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 10) And when it all boils down to it, you know that the rivalry between Minneapolis and St. Paul is as cute as this:

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Chris Iverson

About Chris Iverson

Chris Iverson is a transportation engineer & planner for the City of Bellevue, WA and currently lives in Seattle. He holds degrees in both Civil Engineering & Urban Studies from the University of Minnesota, and worked on a myriad of transit & multimodal transportation projects in the Twin Cities. He is a former Minnesota Daily columnist, RAGBRAI participant, bad musician, marathon finisher, and an unabashed generalist.