2022 Bikeable Community Workshops
Tim Brackett • January 20, 2022 • 1 Help communities in Minnesota become more bike friendly through Bikeable Community Workshops. Learn ways to advocate for biking in your community in 2022.
Category: Safety
Tim Brackett • January 20, 2022 • 1 
‘I just want it to stop’: constant speeding on Concordia Avenue in St. Paul
Bill Lindeke • November 26, 2021 A St. Paul resident and mother couldn’t stand the sight of cars — and UPS trucks and school buses — breaking the speed limit on a residential street. So she did something about it.
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.
Hennepin For People – Mass Fun Ride Delivers
Peter Schmitt • September 29, 2021 Joy. Pure joy. Community. Safety. Relaxation. Riding down the middle of Hennepin Ave S, surrounded by 100 of my closest and/or newest friends. All ages, abilities, and an incredible array of bike types. We even had the first zero emission E Line bus join us on a bike trailer! Honestly, I haven’t felt this outside […]
BNSF Said No to Light Rail, Would They Say Yes to a Trail?
Eric Ecklund • September 27, 2021 The Blue Line Extension hit a major roadblock when BNSF Railway refused to allow part of the light rail route on their right-of-way. This means delays and a higher cost to the project, but it’s also been an opportunity to reroute the light rail through North Minneapolis. What hasn’t been talked about however, is the […]
Three Days of Parent Drop-Off for Back-to-School
Pat Thompson • September 23, 2021 I spent three mornings in the last week volunteering to wear a yellow vest and hold a fluorescent poster board, just down the street from my local elementary school. The sign said “SLOW You’re Almost There,” and it was addressed to parents who were driving their children to school. As they approached the curve where […]
Minnesota’s Deadly Pedestrian Refuge Islands
The way St. Paul Public Works and the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) design pedestrian refuge islands is awful. It’s symbolic of how oblivious and uncaring they are about pedestrian and bicycle crashes. It’s also one of many indicators that little has changed in this state during the past 20 years. Consider these pedestrian refuge […]
The Sound of the Police
Sarah and Jerry Shannon • September 1, 2021 Excerpt from Sparked: George Floyd, Racism and the Progressive Illusion edited by Walter R. Jacobs, Wendy Thompson Taiwo and Amy August. Reproduced with permission from the Minnesota Historical Society Press. On June 12, 2020, the Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously to disband the police department and replace it with another model, an extraordinary step. Like most white, […]
National Links: A New Metric for Traffic Safety
Jeff Wood • July 28, 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. […]
Summer 2021 Highway News Roundup
Monte Castleman • June 18, 2021 As the 2021 construction season moves into high gear, I thought I’d try something different and write about a few things that have gone on around the state the past year, interesting enough to present here but probably not deserving of their own full article. The St. Francis Highway 47 Safety Project by St. Francis […]