A Guide to Testifying at the Capitol: How You Can Influence Policy
Most committees and bills at the Legislature see surprisingly little public engagement. Here’s how you can make your voice heard.
Category: Governance
A List for Robert Garcia
When Robert Garcia, a newly elected member of Congress, asked on Twitter for progressive ideas at the intersection of climate and urbanism, he got hundreds of responses.
National Links: Should Cities Use Cool Pavements?
Doubts are raised about cool pavements, engineers need more transportation education and other great reads await in this week’s National Links.
(Inter)National Links: Connected Rooftop Parks
Berlin like many other cities around the world is looking for ways to become more sustainable in this time of climate crisis. The city has been looking inward at its own ecosystem and testing potential solutions, like allowing goats to graze the hills of an old stadium to create more biodiversity or planting seeds of plants that thrive in slightly warmer temperatures than exist now.
Who Controls Minneapolis Streets?
Cyclists and the City Council want bus lanes on Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis. The “strong” mayor and some business interests say otherwise.
Thank You Past Board Members of streets.mn
The 2022 streets.mn board members acknowledge the foundation built for us by past streets.mn board members. Thank you.
Federal Highway Administration’s MUTCD May Flout Requirements
A document search suggests agency failed to consider safer and more sustainable designs, as required by the FAST Act, in engineering manual update.
Assessing the Legacy of Minneapolis’s Progressive Urbanist City Council
The 2021 general election is over. All across the country it was a deeply divisive and angry campaign and the results reflected that dismal process. In Minneapolis, it was no different. It was a bad time to be earnest about the future. The cynics won in a rout. Among the losses were four councilmembers, Cam […]
At Open Streets, we asked candidates for Minneapolis Mayor about transit and public safety
With arguably the most decisive Minneapolis election in our lifetime rapidly approaching on Nov. 2, I went to Open Streets Minnehaha this past weekend on a mission to ask mayoral candidates questions submitted by streets.mn contributors. I got the three main contenders: incumbent Jacob Frey, former state representative Kate Knuth, and organizer Sheila Nezhad. I […]
National Links: Sprawling Across America
Every day at The Overhead Wire, we collect news about cities and send the links to our email list. At the end of the week we take some of the most popular stories and post them to Greater Greater Washington, a group blog similar to streets.mn that focuses on urban issues in the D.C. region. […]