
The Decline of HourCar Makes ‘Car-Free’ Less Convenient
In the last five years, HourCar’s service has seen a steep decline, due to a reduced number of vehicles, a lack of basic maintenance and plain old neglect.
In the last five years, HourCar’s service has seen a steep decline, due to a reduced number of vehicles, a lack of basic maintenance and plain old neglect.
Car-free living in the heartland, junk traffic science, 15-minute-city conspiracies and more in this week’s National Links.
I may have failed at my goals for winter biking, but I’ve managed to make biking over 14% of my personal modeshare!
Doubts are raised about cool pavements, engineers need more transportation education and other great reads await in this week’s National Links.
Contributors share their New Year’s intentions for bringing to life the Streets.mn core values of advocating for people-centered, future-oriented, justice-driven and delight-cultivating places.
The Twin Cities has spatial gaps in its transit service and social gaps in transportation equity. Car-sharing can connect people without cars to suburban areas, including their amenities and their jobs.
Going all-in on urbanism doesn’t mean you have to give up on spending time in the outdoors; in fact, many urbanists love going camping! We’ll talk to a city planner about creating car-free camping opportunities, and then follow a group on a hare-brained winter bike trip to ski and camp at Afton.
Bikes are just things, and yet they become part of you, infused with the experiences you have while riding. When a thief steals the bikes, where do the memories go?
Sahan Journal’s story about how multimodalism produces happier commutes made national news, plus how humans created Hurricane Ian.
After comfortably living with three cars, being forced to use only one can reveal many of the pros and cons of living a “car-lite” lifestyle.