Author Archive | Bill Lindeke

Chart of the Day: Hennepin Avenue Peak Hour Mode Share

By Bill Lindeke on May 15, 2018 in Chart, Transit

Today is the day that the semi-vaunted “test” of Hennepin Avenue dedicated bus lanes kicks off. What excitement for people who are really interested in transit design and/or on-street parking policy! (A special “hello” to all twelve of you.) Kidding aside, the test is a big deal. Congestion on Hennepin Avenue during rush hours is […]

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Podcast #112: Mapping the History of Racial Covenants in Minneapolis

By Bill Lindeke on May 14, 2018 in History, Podcast, Race

I’m back with another streets.mn podcast and it’s a good one. I sat down a few weeks ago with the team from Mapping Prejudice, a groundbreaking historical research effort to shed light on the racist history of housing practices in Minneapolis. Joining me around the table in the basement of the Borchert Map Library were […]

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Chart of the Day: Kinetic Energy of Bicycles versus Cars

By Bill Lindeke on May 11, 2018 in Chart, Safety

Via the Twitter feed of Juan Melli, a resident of New Jersey, here is a chart showing the kinetic energy (i.e. energy generated because of motion) of a bicycle going 20 miles per hour versus a car going 30 miles per hour. It’s a pretty one-sided chart: Melli writes that: Kinetic energy that would hit a […]

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Chart of the Day: Transit Ridership Growth for US Cities 2016-17

By Bill Lindeke on May 10, 2018 in Chart, Transit

You might have heard that transit ridership is down overall in the United States of America. Nobody seems to know quite why, though some suspect is has something to do with gas prices or ride-sharing companies or technology or something. Well, the good news is that Minneapolis/Saint Paul isn’t so bad compared to other cities […]

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Map Monday Bonus: Saint Paul’s Sand Rock Tunnel Sewers

By Bill Lindeke on May 7, 2018 in Infrastructure, Maps

Via Dana DeMaster and Than Tibbets’ Twitter conversation, here is a map of a mysterious and unknown subterranean engineering feature in Saint Paul, Minnesota’s weirdest city in some ways. Here is your map. The “sand rock tunnels” are in yellow. [.pdf is here.] The initial query came from yet another West 7th Street rumor: […]

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Map Monday: US States by Renter Friendliness

By Bill Lindeke on April 30, 2018 in Housing, Maps

Here’s a map showing how states rank on a 0-100 scale of “renter friendliness”. It is brought to you by Rent Café, which I assume is some sort of apartment-finding website. They have a good list of policies that give more rights to renters, including how long you have to wait to get back a […]

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Chart of the Day: Airport Travel Time for US Cities, Transit vs. Cabs

By Bill Lindeke on April 27, 2018 in Aviation, Chart

Here’s a chart from Doug Mack’s Twitter feed and FiveThirtyEight (thanks Jeb!): The yellow is the drive time from the airport to downtown (with a 10-minute wait, which makes all the difference) and the blue is the transit time. It’s rare to see Minneapolis at the top of a list, and this one is actually pretty […]

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Chart of the Day: New Housing Growth by Type and Region

By Bill Lindeke on April 26, 2018 in Chart, Housing

A new report out from Brookings titled “Unpacking the housing shortage” came out this week. It deals with some of the root causes of the affordable housing crisis in the US. They show some important trends with a few great charts. Let’s look at them quickly. The first shows where “new housing” comes from, and […]

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Chart of the Day: US Median Floor Area Per Capita Trends

By Bill Lindeke on April 25, 2018 in Chart, Housing

Here is an elegant and revealing chart from Douglas Farr’s new textbook, “Sustainable Nation.” It comes from Chapter One, “Where We Are” and shows the growth in housing space per person over the last fifty or so years: Note that this data is for the United States, and is taken from US census data cited […]

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