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National Links: Sitting on the Porch

Jeff Wood Jeff Wood • May 5, 2023

The Overhead Wire’s weekly compilation of news about cities from around the nation and the globe. This week: transportation and medicine, the power of porches and a drop in interactions within cities.

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Walk the Talk: Discuss Transportation, Explore Minneapolis

Hawken Habig • May 4, 2023

Comment on St. Paul bike plans, tour Cedar Lake and Lake of the Isles, learn about active transportation planning and more!

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Three Years After the 2020 Uprising, Neighborhoods and Businesses Continue to Rebuild

Cirien Saadeh • May 3, 2023

This first of a two-part series looks at rebuilding efforts on West Broadway, Lake Street and University Avenue since the 2020 uprising.

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Presenting Nice Games Club: Pothole Run

Ian R Buck • May 2, 2023

We have a ridiculous number of potholes in the Twin Cities, and since we can’t do anything other than wait for the hardworking road repair folks to fix them, we made a special Nice Games Jam!

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Public hearing on Summit Avenue Regional Trail Plan

A Heated Public Meeting Lays Groundwork for Future Summit Trail Debate

Ed Steinhauer Ed Steinhauer • May 1, 2023

The saga of the Summit Avenue Regional Trail Plan just keeps going, like cyclists with the wind at their back.

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A row of docked blue Citi Bikes in New York City

National Links: The Money Mustache Says No Cars

Jeff Wood Jeff Wood • April 28, 2023

The fate of bike share systems run by Lyft, a car-free development in Tempe, ADUs for aging adults and more in National Links.

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Pedestrian feet in a busy crosswalk

Near Side Signals: Thinking Outside the Pedestrian Box

April 30, 2021
How often do you think about stoplights? Not just to acknowledge that the light is green or red or how many times the “Don’t Walk” hand on the pedestrian crosswalk counter has flashed so you know how long you have to cross, but the design and placement of that signal. (The red hand flashes 17 […]

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How TIF Can Solve a Market Failure in Minneapolis

May 2, 2019
I wrote an earlier post that explains what TIF is and how it works. Click through and read it here. In any community, we put things we want in plans. We want good jobs for the people who live here. We want homes people can afford to rent and buy. We want polluted land cleaned […]

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Cover of Mass Transit magazine from May 1979 showing a map of the United States with the following cities marked: St. Paul, Detroit, Miami, Houston, and Los Angeles

Map Monday: St. Paul’s Proposed Downtown People Mover

May 7, 2018
A new exhibit at the Landmark Center of photographs of downtown St. Paul from 1978 has ties to the once-proposed downtown people mover that was nixed in 1980. Aaron Isaacs briefly recounted the never-built people mover’s history on this site last year. Here’s the map of the preferred route and stations from the March 1979 […]

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