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.
Category: Streets
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.
Why Isn’t this Intersection a Roundabout? A Wish List
Some intersections would better serve our community as roundabouts. This wish list represents the experience and observations of a workaday cyclist.
Failing at Safety: Three Times in Four Blocks
Four blocks, a few minutes and three examples of driver behavior that make people less safe — on a street rebuilt to be safer for all users.
Cycling the City in a Snowstorm: A Few Tips and Tricks
Here in the midst of #31DaysOfWinterBiking, winter bicycle commuters will tell you that biking through a snowstorm is icy, slow and treacherous, but it may be the most fun you can have on a bike.
Safer Summit Campaign Looks to Highlight the Facts
A neighborhood meeting leads contributor Kelsey Dahlager to ask questions and band with neighbors to advocate for a safer Summit Avenue.
Share the Road with Bikes! (Unless They Want to Turn Left)
In taking stock of my most well-traveled routes, those places where I have to turn left are the places where a motorist has honked, shouted or threatened my safety in some way.
Summit Master Plan First Draft Is Great!
Saint Paul Bicycle Coalition co-chair Andy Singer, longtime chronicler of all-things-cycle in St. Paul, reviews the city’s initial master plan for off-street paths on Summit Avenue — and he approves!
Save Our Street Continues to Distribute Misinformation
Contributor Ben Swanson-Hysell discusses the continued misinformation and unsubstantiated claims made by Save Summit Avenue with regards to the Summit Regional Trail.