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The City That Eats Together: A Climate Committee Tree Planting Event

By on June 1, 2020 in climate, delight cultivating, Food, Land use, Streets

Editor’s note: Julia wrote this piece prior to the killing of George Floyd and subsequent unrest. The last few days have again revealed the structural inequality that persists in our cities. These gaps come in many forms, including in access to food. As grocery stories have been destroyed or shuttered throughout many parts of the […]

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Join the streets.mn Climate Committee!

By on January 21, 2020 in climate, Environment, justice, streets.mn

Are you ready to respond to our climate emergency? Are you interested in what this means for land use and transportation in particular? Join streets.mn’s newest committee this coming Sunday afternoon, January 26th, from 3:00-5:00 at CoCreatz on the Green Line. We’ll be talking about the ways streets.mn intersects with climate breakdown and how we […]

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It’s a Climate Emergency! Join the streets.mn Board!

By on November 12, 2019 in climate, Infrastructure, Land use, streets.mn

I don’t know how I first stumbled across streets.mn, but I have definite memories of losing hours and hours the first few days as I read article after article and jumped into the comments of new and old posts. And I gradually learned more about its reach and its community as I made new friends […]

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Sharing Streets with Scooters

By on March 4, 2019 in Bicycling, Experiments, Pedestrians, Pedestrians, Placemaking, Politics, Public Policy, Public Realm, Safety, Sidewalks, Smart Growth, Traffic, Trends, Walking

One hot day last August I set out to walk a marathon around the Twin Cities, starting with a jaunt over to St Paul for a streets.mn board meeting, a tour of the sewer covers of Rondo (they’re amazing!), and a nice brunch before meandering back to Minneapolis to wander around more. Midday, I headed […]

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Fight Climate Breakdown by Joining the streets.mn Board!

By on October 19, 2018 in Advocacy, Environment, News, streets.mn

I don’t know how to write this post to ask you to join the streets.mn board. This is supposed to be my rousing invitation, and every time I start typing, I find myself writing about the IPCC instead. But that’s not actually all that far off. Climate change–our role in causing it, the consequences we […]

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Winter Walking & The City of Minneapolis Maintenance Study

By on May 15, 2018 in Accessibility, Chart, Governance, Infrastructure, Sidewalks, Streets, Transportation, Walking, Weather

The long-anticipated City of Minneapolis’ Winter Maintenance Study is being presented to the City Council’s Transportation and Public Works committee on Tuesday. The Study looks far afield for solutions, analyzing municipal winter maintenance responsibility across the country, but without ever evaluating the efficacy of either our current system or the ones studied. Despite its importance […]

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A Walking Minute

By on January 22, 2018 in Carfree, Walking

  As I walk across Minneapolis’ lakes, my pace slowed* both by the resistance of snow and wind and by my fascination with every sight and sound, I think about scale a lot. There are drivers on the bridges above me, caged up in steel, bikers and wind surfers zipping past me, skiers who half […]

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Today! Celebrate the Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition’s New Name & Mission

By on May 31, 2017 in Accessibility, Bicycling, Carfree, Events, Walking

It’s been almost nine months since the Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition first announced its expansion to including walking in their advocacy. In that time, staff and volunteers have been working hard to get the organization up to speed to actively include the diversity of people who get around our city on foot, in wheelchairs, with strollers, using canes, […]

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Apply for the Minneapolis Pedestrian Advisory Committee!

By on May 2, 2017 in Carfree, Governance, PSA, Public Realm, Safety, Sidewalks, Walking

After a friend first told me about the Minneapolis Pedestrian Advisory Committee (PAC) a few years ago, it took another two or three gentle suggestions before I was willing to seriously consider applying. Despite being car-free by choice and a Minneapolitan for my entire adult life, I saw myself as neither a pedestrian nor someone […]

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Hennepin Avenue Reconstruct II: Even Better

By on May 4, 2016 in Downtown, Free Idea, Infrastructure, Streets, Transportation

I’ve written previously about the infinite improvement that the proposed concept for the Hennepin Avenue Reconstruct represents, here. Of course, my hopes for it are as eternal as the empty lot at Block E once felt. I’m leaving out the possibility of lane reductions; the mess of laws and customs governing those is beyond my […]

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