By popular demand, we moved the recent streets.mn Happy Hour (a good time was had by all) over to Lyndale Avenue earlier this month to team up with the group of courageous and dedicated folks who are trying to make it safe to cross Lyndale Avenue South on foot. They held what they called the […]
A few months ago, I was privileged to be a guest lecturer for a colleague’s environmental sociology course at the UW-La Crosse. For those unfamiliar, La Crosse, Wisconsin is one of the larger small cities in the region. It’s a city with a metro area of about 130,000 people located in a magnificent spot on […]
It’s with no joy that I write yet another column about Ayd Mill Road, Saint Paul’s crumbling concrete albatross. I’ve been at this for years, and you are not familiar with this long saga, here’s a quick primer: A quick, legal timeline of AMR decisions from 1999 – 2010 (Neighborhoods First!) A longer, illustrated timeline […]
Here are four interesting maps from Minneapolis map guru and sometime streets.mn writer Scott Shaffer, posted on Twitter the other day. They show population change trends in Minnesota by county over the last year. Check them out: The takeaway? The metro is growing, and that goes double for the core cities. Anyone see any […]
Here are two charts put together by streets.mn’s dutiful Philadelphia correspondent, Alex Schieferdecker. He’s been paying close attention to the housing data over the last few years, especially tracking the percentage multi-family homes and the percentage of homes located within the different counties. As you can see, and much to Schieferdecker’s pleasure, multi-family housing is […]
Hello, reader of this website! The streets.mn Events Committee is hosting a streets.mn Happy Hour get-together on February 12th. It’s been too long and we miss you. Feb. 12; 5-7pm One Fermentary and Taproom, 618 N. 5th St. UPDATE: To accommodate some excellent folks, we’re moving the event to… Lynlake Brewery, 2934 Lyndale Avenue. […]
I wanted to take a moment to pause and look back at 2019, which was a brutal year for people walking in Saint Paul. Last year, five people were killed by automobile violence, making it an especially tragic year. For every name here, there were many more people hit and injured by people driving cars […]
For a few years now, MnDOT, the state’s transportation agency, has been promoting its “Rethinking I-94” plan, making a big deal out of hand-wringing and soul searching about the future of the state’s busiest and most urban freeway. I’ve gone to a few meetings about it, and — in a rare television appearance — I […]
Here’s a cool chart shared on Twitter by a researcher at the Manhattan Institute, showing expected v. actual ridership numbers for different light rail lines around the country. I am one of the people that always assumes transit planners low-ball the ridership predictions, so that they can announce (often right away) that the new transit […]
In case you missed it, the annual streets.mn Winter Fundraiser Party is this Thursday at the Black Hart of Saint Paul. We hope you can come. Just like last year, we’re having a gift raffle and there will be lots of great prizes available. In fact, you can do all your holiday shopping at the […]