How Walkable Is Your Neighborhood? Mac-Groveland Took Steps to Find Out
A neighborhood survey reveals the reasons why we walk, and the obstacles encountered along the way, from immobilizing snow to dangerous traffic.
Category: Sidewalks
In Support of Municipal Sidewalk Plowing in Minneapolis
In theory, Minneapolis’ snow shoveling bylaws are sufficient to make the sidewalks bare within 24 hours of snowfall. In practice, the onset of winter means impassable sidewalks for many.
A Questionably Repaired Duluth Sidewalk
A flooded sidewalk makes human powered mobility difficult at best, dangerous at worst. Our reporter suggests that citizens speak up.
Municipal Shoveling Won’t Solve Winter Walking Woes — But Other City Investments Can
Assigning the city to shovel sidewalks may work in a dense, anonymous metropolis. But here in community-minded St. Paul, we can do better.
Benchmarking: a 3:2:1 Recipe for Success
Streets.mn contributor Pine Salica has a fresh zeal and appreciation for benches, and a pitch for streets that make space for more of them.
Assessing the Stadium Village Green Line Public Space
There’s a public space between the tracks of the Stadium Village Green Line station. What’s it like as a place to hang out in? What can it tell us for other spaces like this?
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.
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 […]
A Street Not for People
Like many transit riders, I have been riding much less since the pandemic, mostly because I have been sticking closer to my home and neighborhood. (Though note: there is starting to be evidence that transit-riding is not a big contributor to COVID-19 rates.) That decrease is a personal sadness because of the lost human connections […]