A City Nerd Bike Party (and Latent Support for Urbanism)
More than 200 gathered for conversation and a group ride. It was both a community event and an act of defiance against car-dependent society.
Category: Streets
Lyndale Avenue Deserves a Multimodal Future
In 2026, Hennepin County will rebuild Lyndale Avenue South. With new designs on the horizon, it’s time to advocate for bike and bus lanes on the corridor.
Reimagining Lyndale Avenue’s Underutilized Space
Most of Lyndale Avenue’s right of way is devoted to cars. An upcoming reconstruction is the perfect time to reimagine this as a space for people.
A Wide Nicollet Avenue at the Kmart Site Is Short-Sighted
Redevelopment of Nicollet Avenue near Lake Street offers many options for newly available right of way along the street — but do we need all of it?
MnDOT’s New Traffic Signs on Snelling Avenue Highlight Same Old Problems
Three hundred new traffic signs on Snelling Avenue are bigger, but not better. They show that MnDOT’s priorities are still too car-focused.
Street Name Signs In Quasi-Public Areas
Venturing onto quasi-public territory in the Twin Cities, you’ll find street name signs that look nothing like the typical municipal ones — or each other, for that matter.
Mourning Another Pedestrian
Changes to Maryland Avenue in St. Paul were meant to calm traffic, but they failed to prevent a driver from killing a walker on Christmas Eve.
How Engaging With Stories Can Help Us Reclaim Local Power
We used storytelling as an engagement tool to make sense of the decline of St. Paul’s fancy-schmanciest shopping street. Could it inform work in other places, too?
A Far-Too-Deep Gander at Street Name Signs
We generally ignore street name signs until we’re in unfamiliar territory, and even then, we overlook their details. Here, we examine St. Paul’s street name signs.
A Pothole Consultation With the Highway Doctors
Everything you want to know about potholes, but were afraid to ask! How do they form? What can we do about them? All that and more!