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.
Category: Streets
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!
It’s Time to Make Lyndale Avenue More than a Corridor for Cars
Small changes have already made Lyndale Avenue better. But now we have the opportunity to make big changes to make it great.
Bring Bike Love to 42nd and Cedar
Join a group bike ride to support small businesses at a Minneapolis intersection where a much-needed redesign has improved safety but eliminated some parking.
The Exhausting Fight of Just Wanting to Survive Biking in Minneapolis
Cyclists have as much right to city infrastructure as do cars, trucks and SUVs. So why can’t the City of Minneapolis see it that way?
National Links: Mini-Trucks from Japan
This week: Japanese mini-trucks find a foothold in the States, the decline of park-and-rides and why we need more family-sized apartments.