On Skyways and Busways
The Dayton family has had an outsized impact on downtown Minneapolis. So when the next generation speaks out about skyways and safety, people pay attention.
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Podcast #100 – Skyways and Streetlife with Eric Dayton
The podcast this week is a conversation with Eric Dayton, the founder and chief booster of the Minneapolis Skyway Avoidance Society. Eric Dayton is the owner of two downtown Minneapolis businesses – the Bachelor Farmer restaurant and Askov-Finlayson, a clothing retailer – and, of course, son of Minnesota governor Marc Dayton. We sat down a […]
Minneapolis Skyways Offer an Escape from Reality
“Since the first skyway opened in 1962,” Kim Ode writes in her piece on the expansion of the Minneapolis Skyway System, “the elevated passages have signified escape, whether from traffic noise, stoplights or the weather.” Yet there is another kind of escapism at play here: an escape from the demands of empathy, social responsibility, and […]
Skyways: What Lies Beneath
As it says (down there) in my bio, I’m a pretty regular user of Minneapolis skyways, especially in any form of inclement weather. Nonetheless, some days, especially this time of year, are not quite cold or inclement enough to make me want to retreat entirely indoors, but still chilly enough to make an entirely outdoor walking […]
Bikes and Skyways
I think this Skyway Bike Race is from Red Bull Ride the Sky 2007. (via Mulad ) Another perspective here:
A Modest Proposal Regarding the Skyways
Tear down the skyways? That’s exactly the opposite of what Minneapolis ought to do.
Sure our skyways could be like Venice, if you mean the one in Las Vegas
I love the debate over skyways because it points to one of the most entrenched and subtle urban issues: what exactly people mean when they say “public space.” In particular, the skyways focus attention on the relationship between architecture and public space, how design works to both include and exclude certain kinds of people, to […]
Those Skyways Won’t Go Down Without a Fight
While my post on this website suggesting that we gradually remove the skyways from downtown Minneapolis over a 50-year timeline got a couple compliments and a rebuke by our own David Levinson, it was also picked up by the Star Tribune. In that piece, Minneapolis mayor R.T. Rybak was quoted as saying “I don’t think […]
Skyways Aren’t About the Weather
Keeping people out of the cold weather wasn’t always the rationale for the skyways.
In defense of skyways
Crossposted at streets.mn and transportationist.org Photos of skyways by author from Sydney (2), Portland (2), Minneapolis (3), Tokyo (1), and Harrogate (1) respectively. Everyone seems to be hating on Minneapolis’s world-beating skyway network. Sam Newberg is the latest in a recent post at streets.mn: Is it Time to Remove Those Pesky Skyways? : “The following […]