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The Short Line Bridge and a Saint Paul Greenway Extension

By on September 30, 2016 in Bicycling, Infrastructure

The city of Saint Paul has long envisioned extending the Minneapolis Midtown Greenway across the Mississippi River and along the Canadian Pacific railroad line into Saint Paul. Engineers at the city’s Public Works Department began actively exploring the idea in 2003. It was on the city’s Comprehensive Plan at least as far back as 2008, […]

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A Cure for Fear of Parking Loss

By on September 24, 2016 in Advocacy, Cars, Humor, Sketches

This week the American Psychiatric Association (APA) announced it was adding “Fear of Parking Loss” to its official “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders”. Fear of Parking Loss (FPL) is characterized by a belief that having free, on-street parking next to the front door of your destination is essential for human survival and a […]

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Prior Avenue and the Merriam Park Freeway Fight

By on March 14, 2016 in Freeways, History, Transportation

If you’re riding a bicycle north or south in Saint Paul, Prior Avenue is one of the only nice ways to cross Interstate 94 and the Canadian Pacific rail line. There are several reasons for this. It has lower volumes of motor vehicles than many other streets and cars tend to drive slower. It’s more […]

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The Importance of Bicycle Lighting

By on December 4, 2015 in Advocacy, Bicycling, Carfree, Safety

It’s The Crank again, and today I’m going to talk about bicycle lighting or the lack of it, and the various ways I find it annoying. When I ride at night or in low-light situations, I like to have at least a rear light to make me more visible to motorists. A front light is […]

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The Crank’s Cartoon Shout-outs

By on November 15, 2015 in Bicycling, Culture, Environment, Humor, Sunday Sketch

I am hereby naming this column “The Crank.” That’s because I’m cranky, I like bicycles, and a crank is the part of a bicycle that makes it move. With this in mind, I’d like to offer the following cartoon shout-outs. This one goes out to the Mall of America and “American Boulevard” in Bloomington:   In […]

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A Camino De Minnesota?

By on November 2, 2015 in Bicycling, Culture, Free Idea, Greater Minnesota

In some ways, Christianity and other faiths created the concept of tourism. They created sacred sites and encouraged their followers to make pilgrimage trips to visit them. This created the need for food, lodging, souvenirs, and various other goods and services that form the backbone of modern tourism. My wife recently got a small grant […]

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MnDOT and Saint Paul’s Apology Doesn’t Change Anything

By on August 24, 2015 in Cars, Freeways, History, Race, Transportation

On July 17, The Minnesota Department of Transportation and Saint Paul mayor Chris Coleman apologized for bulldozing the Rondo neighborhood of Saint Paul to build Interstate 94. Beginning in 1958, the freeway destroyed nearly a thousand homes and businesses and it displaced thousands of people at the core of a predominantly African American neighborhood. It […]

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Cleveland Avenue Bike Lanes

By on June 14, 2015 in Accessibility, Advocacy, Bicycling, Carfree, Events, Infrastructure, Neighborhoods, News, Parking, Planning, Plans, Politics, Streets, Transportation

This coming Wednesday, June 17, at 5:30pm, the Saint Paul City Council faces its first test for implementing the city’s Bikeways Plan. The plan calls for bike lanes on Cleveland Avenue. The question is: Will they vote to implement the plan, or will they listen to claims of bike lane opponents and scrap a major […]

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Saint Paul Bike to Work Week

By on May 4, 2015 in Advocacy, Bicycling, Carfree, Downtown, Infrastructure, Parking, Transportation

National Bike to Work Week is coming up and, for once, Saint Paul has something to celebrate. We passed a bike plan back in March and already we have three potential bikeway projects up for public discussion. We’ve moved from having public meetings about plans (many of which never got implemented) to having meetings about […]

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