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BikeMN’s Annual Meeting Highlights Bike-Friendly People & Programs

By on June 10, 2019 in Announcements, Bicycling, Greater Minnesota, Health, Pedestrians, Walking

The Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota proved the authenticity of its name at the organization’s annual meeting on Saturday, June 8, with a showcase of bike- and pedestrian-friendly initiatives throughout the state that BikeMN is either leading or supporting. From honoring an African-American bicycling club that just celebrated its 20th anniversary in Minneapolis to helping tiny […]

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Streets For Drag Racing in Brainerd

By on April 18, 2019 in Culture, Greater Minnesota, History

Attending Washington High School in Brainerd, Minnesota, my hot rod friends and I used several streets that made good drag racing places. In fact, the street in front of the high school was one of them. The mandatory “Start” location was a fire hydrant near the physics classroom, where several of us hot rodders were […]

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Could the Commuter Rail from Minneapolis to Duluth be a Flop?

By on March 27, 2019 in Greater Minnesota, Trains

A recent Star Tribune post on a new bus service starting at $9 to Duluth got me thinking about all the recent talk about having a government-sponsored, commuter rail service to Duluth. Amtrak recently announced that it was interested in investing $600 million to develop a rail service from Minneapolis to Superior and Duluth, using […]

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A Car-Free, Car-Less, and Car-Lite Guide To Surviving Bemidji

By on February 15, 2019 in Bicycling, Greater Minnesota, Transportation

I thought I needed to have a car for my assignment. In August, I was offered a position that had me relocate to Bemidji. In Northern Minnesota. 200 miles away from the only home that I’ve known outside of San Francisco, away from the friends that I’ve made. I thought I was going away too […]

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Walking Crookston

By on January 30, 2019 in Greater Minnesota, Placemaking

8am. I just finished walking an hour and a half from the Grand Forks Amtrak station. It’s a Saturday morning at the end of September in 2017, and the night before, I spent 6 hours on the Empire Builder traveling from the Twin Cities. After crossing the bridge to briefly visit East Grand Forks, and […]

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Why Give Money to streets.mn?

By on December 14, 2018 in Events, Greater Minnesota, Streets, streets.mn

Hello streets.mn readers. By now I am sure you are aware we are holding our annual streets.mn Winter Fundraiser on Wednesday, December 19th (purchase tickets here). While streets.mn is fortunate to count many among you as supporters, it is entirely possible some of you are asking “Why should I give money to streets.mn?” Let me […]

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Along Old Highway 61 to Duluth: A Phototour, Part One

By on November 14, 2018 in Greater Minnesota, Streets

Sometimes the fun is the journey, not the destination, and thus my series of phototours of scenic, notable, or historic highways and the sights found on or nearby. After a few much shorter ones for my former North Star Highways site, I did a full one on US 14 across southern Minnesota. Next up is […]

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Map Monday: Visualizing Twin Cities Sprawl, Density, and Change

By on November 5, 2018 in Demographics, Development, Greater Minnesota, Maps, Trends

Like many of the maps I find I came across a webpage via Twitter, hat tip to @stateofthecity. The webpage takes data from the Global Human Settlement Layer and runs it onto Google Maps. This is the result, Human Terrain by Matt Daniels (@matthew_daniels). I immediately panned to tool over to Minnesota and geeked out. Something I […]

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How Accessible are Minnesota State Parks for Non-motorists?

By on July 16, 2018 in Carfree, Greater Minnesota

After living in Minnesota for four years, I decided last year to focus on getting away from the metro area and exploring greater Minnesota. I also decided to take up camping for the first time since childhood in 2017. As someone who is car-free, accomplishing these goals required some creativity on my part. I purchased […]

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Five Keys to Rochester’s North Broadway Debate

By on May 22, 2018 in Greater Minnesota, Placemaking, Planning, Politics, Streets, Urban Design, Walking

A lot has happened during Rochester’s North Broadway discussions, but I feel that much of the consternation is not about the project itself. Rather, people in Rochester are debating about which direction the city is heading. There is a group of people, both elected and not, who are clinging to the last strands of what […]

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