Jeff Wood • April 26, 2022 Along Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, more than 300 languages are spoken. As the 7 train runs over the “artery of life”, commerce explodes underneath with vibrancy and community. The street is a microcosm of the world and what goes on there sometimes impacts what happens on the other side of the globe.
Jeff Wood • April 19, 2022 This week on National Links: flood insurance set to receive major reforms, Oakland weighs the impact of losing a baseball team and the undervalued importance of “third places.”
John Van Heel • April 15, 2022 In these perilous times, dreaming of the future comes less easily. That is precisely what I found myself doing, however, after hearing the news earlier this year that the planning process for the future development of the three-acre St. Anthony Falls Lock property would start fresh from the beginning — this time, with Indigenous peoples […]
Ian Gaida • April 14, 2022 Contributor Ian Gaida offers musings on how to make the Northstar a more useful – and utilized – system.
Christian Huelsman • April 11, 2022 (The photograph above, showing the Metropolitan Opera House and Palace Court, was taken by C.J. Hubbard in 1914, Minnesota Historical Society) Historical and contemporary Minneapolis is not particularly known for its public alleys. They have served a more discreet role in the lives of Minneapolitans, unsung for getting private vehicles off city streets. Of course, […]
Jeff Wood • February 15, 2022 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.
Hennepin Ave must be reconstructed. The city of Minneapolis currently favors an inclusive design that will make the area safer for non-car traffic. Learn more at the city’s open house on January 13, 2022.
Amy Gage • December 7, 2021 The landmark rent stabilization initiative that St. Paul voters passed in November has landlords worried about investments, tenants concerned about rent hikes prior to full implementation May 1, and the city scrambling to put a process in place.
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.
Jared Goyette • November 1, 2021 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 […]