National Links: Public Health and Crypto Cities
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.
Category: Planning
National Links: How Independent Bookstores Encourage Browsing
Denver’s failing rail system fails to serve neighborhoods, Paris will limit vehicular traffic to prepare for the Olympics, and the psychology of place.
National Links: The True Cost of Cars
New research in Germany shows how expensive cars really are – the lifetime cost of a small car is $689,000 with a public expense of $275,000, say the researchers.
Last Chance for Hennepin Ave S Reconstruction Comments!
It’s Hennepin Week here on streets.mn and I am here to remind you that your voice does, in fact, matter! The deadline for comments on Hennepin Reconstruction is 1/28 (that’s today!), and we need everyone who cares about building better and safer streets to submit a comment! We know the voices complaining about car storage […]
Reclaiming Hennepin’s Promise
I was excited to live on a super-walkable street. After I moved in, I realized the unpleasantness of Hennepin between Franklin and Lake.
Lots to Love About the Hennepin Avenue Reconstruction
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
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!
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
As with many jurisdictions around the world, New Zealand has been struggling with a housing affordability crisis. It’s now turned its attention toward increasing housing supply.
National Links: The Future of Billboards
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. […]