failed new road design in roseville, ramsey county

Victoria street (Ramsey County road 52), between County road B and Larpenteur Avenue was repaved and reconfigured this summer. It went from a stretch of road that was awesome to cycle on northbound and southbound, to... safe nothbound 

and a RIDICULOUSLY UNSAFE southbound lane:

Why? Are there no cyclists working in the traffic engineering groups in Roseville or Ramsey County?

This design was utter crap for safe, bikeable, pragmatic streets. Why? Let's not build new surface streets that are cycling hostile. 

hard likes with soft materials flowing curves with hard materials

piss colored glasses

spending the day, today, looking through piss colored glasses.

juxtaposition

juxtaposing east and west 

at sundown

behind we look

ahead we go

2015 surly wet

hops, yeah! 

narwhal season!

bottles in the window

and finally, a selfie shows up

flowers in the window

and, finally, just slowed the shutter way down to let the light just bleach it out and let the light slice through the flower. now the petals look more like brushstrokes.