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Greenway Closure

Why did Centerpoint Energy Close the Greenway for 10 Days?

By on August 14, 2019 in Bicycling, Streets

On July 23rd, Centerpoint Energy closed the Midtown Greenway without providing any advance notice to the users of the trail. No signage was put in place in advance of the closure, and they did not notify the Midtown Greenway Coalition. They simply erected barricades and ripped up the trail. The detour provisions provided were wholly […]

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Everyone Walks at the State Fair

By on September 5, 2018 in Minnesota State Fair, Walking

“People will walk a lot more than they say they will”—that’s the final observation in Bill Lindeke’s list from the State Fair. I was curious how much I do walk at the State Fair, so this year I took my GPS along. How much did I walk? About seven and a half miles. For most […]

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How to Bike to Work: A Beginner’s Guide

By on May 4, 2018 in Bicycling, Experiments, Transportation

May in Minnesota is when bike season kicks into high gear. The weather is finally nice enough that everyone wants to be outside riding in it, and May is also the month where bike advocacy efforts bloom. Locally we celebrate Mpls Bike Month, headlined by Twin Cities Bike to Work Day on May 18th. Bike […]

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Winter is When We Need Alternative Transit the Most

By on April 4, 2018 in Cars, Walking, Weather

The first blizzard this winter hit squarely over the entire workday, timing that was bad news for the plow crews trying to clear the streets in time for the city’s commuters to get home. My partner and I took a walk in the early evening and without ever making it more than four blocks from […]

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Local Business is a Two-Way Street (with Bike Lanes)

By on March 15, 2017 in Bicycling, Neighborhoods, Urbanism

The experience of living in a city is all about learning to share a small space with a lot of people. Nobody gets exactly the city they would prefer. The very nature of diversity means that everyone’s perfect city would be a little different than their neighbor’s perfect city. So instead we compromise. Much of […]

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