Reclaiming Hennepin’s Promise
Janne Flisrand • January 26, 2022 I was excited to live on a super-walkable street. After I moved in, I realized the unpleasantness of Hennepin between Franklin and Lake.
Category: Planning
Janne Flisrand • January 26, 2022 
Lots to Love About the Hennepin Avenue Reconstruction
Sam Penders • January 24, 2022 Starting in 2024, the City of Minneapolis will reconstruct Hennepin Avenue from Lake Street to Douglas Avenue. In line with the City’s progressive climate, transportation and comprehensive plans, Public Works has recommended a redesign of Hennepin Avenue that puts the climate and people walking, biking and rolling first. In this post, I will highlight some […]
Federal Highway Administration’s MUTCD May Flout Requirements
Scott Brody • November 15, 2021 A document search suggests agency failed to consider safer and more sustainable designs, as required by the FAST Act, in engineering manual update.
Make Your Voice Heard About How Met Council Disburses ~$200 Million in Federal Gas-Tax Funds!
Brian C. Martinson • September 27, 2021 Did you know? Did you know that the Metropolitan Council is our region’s federally designated “Metropolitan Planning Commission,” or MPO? Among its duties as the MPO, every two years, the Met Council puts out a “Regional Solicitation,” the first step in a competitive grant process that determines how investments of federal transportation funds (i.e. sweet […]
Learning from the Land Down Under
Evan Roberts • June 25, 2021 This post is co-authored with Nathanael Lauster, Author of The Death and Life of the Single-Family House: Lessons from Vancouver on Building a Livable City. The authors met when Lauster lived in Minneapolis from 2005-6. Lauster is now an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. This post is cross-posted from https://homefreesociology.com/. Exciting […]
National Links: The Future of Billboards
Jeff Wood • June 9, 2021 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. […]
Lies in City Planning
In April, Minneapois Public Works released the results of a survey showing strong community support for reopening 38th & Chicago to vehicle traffic. Just one problem: it wasn’t true.
Beyond 2030: Looking at Intercity Rail in Minnesota
A look at the future of Minnesota’s intercity rail beyond Duluth and Chicago
The M.U.T.C.D. Revisited
Andy Singer • May 6, 2021 From the FHWA website:“The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways or MUTCD defines the standards used by road managers nationwide to install and maintain traffic control devices on all public streets, highways, bikeways and private roads open to public travel”. It is “a compilation of national standards for all traffic control […]
On Hennepin: Good Ancestors Build Better Neighborhoods
Julie Kearns • April 15, 2021 For the sake of our collective wellbeing—and the just transition that those little hands are relying on us to deliver—we must allow ourselves to plan not for the past that has failed us, but instead, for a shared vision of a healed community in a thriving future.