Andy Singer • June 24, 2022 • 16 Summit Avenue has the city’s oldest, most historic bike lanes and is the second most popular place to bike in St. Paul. So why push for a multi-million-dollar project to improve the lanes? Because the bikeway can be better — and safer — for all users.
James Buchanan • June 23, 2022 • 5 Also, across the U.S. and around the world, the public and private sectors are investing billions in building and/or expanding passenger-train networks. Passenger trains are bringing their communities, especially transit-underserved communities, numerous benefits. These include the development of businesses in and around stations, which attracts and retains young professionals, many of whom prefer public transit to private automobiles. This all reduces regional economic disparities.
Jeff Wood • June 14, 2022 For half a century cities like St. Louis felt that demolition was the best way to solve urban ills tied to out-migration and decay. But according to Tony Nipert, this can result in another type of displacement through neglect. And solutions that include rehabilitation only result in more demolition 10 years later if actions aren’t taken to get people into those homes. Other solutions are needed to revitalize neighborhoods in cities.
Monte Castleman • June 13, 2022 • 0 Google Maps Silliness Minnesota has about a hundred legally named highways and bridges, written into law in Minnesota Statute ยง 161.14. Some of the early ones like the Viking Trail and the Sioux Trail were possibly intended to mark motoring touring routes. But overwhelmingly the highways are named in memory of local politicians, veterans or […]
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Ian Gaida • April 14, 2022 Contributor Ian Gaida offers musings on how to make the Northstar a more useful – and utilized – system.
Jeff Wood • April 2, 2022 National Links examines why transit matters: in where we work, in the urgency to coordinate transit and housing, in the need for federal funding.
Jeff Wood • March 22, 2022 How the design of our cities fails to promote our health and how one Texas city may turn to a crypto company to pay off its burdensome debts.
Monte Castleman • March 21, 2022 The Chestnut Street Pedestrian Plaza Project to Get Underway in Stillwater As part of the ongoing effort to revitalize its waterfront and reclaim its downtown from the traffic in the wake of the St Croix Crossing opening, Stillwater is prepared to rebuild a two-block section of Chestnut Street leading up to the lift bridge. After […]
Ian Gaida • March 1, 2022 Taking a closer look at passenger rail routes that have mostly gone unstudied by MNDOT.