Charts of the Day: Impacts of Land Use on Pandemic-Era Light Rail Station Ridership
Contributor Eoin Roux analyzes light rail station ridership within the context of the previous two years of the pandemic.
Category: Transit
The Bus Rider’s Budget Campaign with MN350
Today we’re joined by Adrianna Jereb, Transit Justice organizer at MN350, to talk about their campaign to influence the Metropolitan Council’s budget to reflect the needs of transit users.
National Links: Rethinking City Sounds
What if we rethought sound in busy cities? In Rotterdam, city officials believe that train bells and other noises are just background noise, but to many, it’s an unbearable hum. Still, some are looking for ways to extract and enhance new sounds to create new and valuable urban experiences.
The Future of Northstar in a Post-Pandemic World
Ridership on the Northstar during the pandemic has averaged between 100 and 300 weekday riders, making it one of the lowest performing commuter/regional rail routes in the country.
(Inter)National Links: Connected Rooftop Parks
Berlin like many other cities around the world is looking for ways to become more sustainable in this time of climate crisis. The city has been looking inward at its own ecosystem and testing potential solutions, like allowing goats to graze the hills of an old stadium to create more biodiversity or planting seeds of plants that thrive in slightly warmer temperatures than exist now.
National Links: The Inhumanity of ‘NIMBY’
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. […]
Ride the Orange Line with us on June 11!
Streets.mn event: rapid transit ride from Minneapolis to Burnsville!
Who Controls Minneapolis Streets?
Cyclists and the City Council want bus lanes on Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis. The “strong” mayor and some business interests say otherwise.
Four Years of Fighting for the Future of Hennepin Avenue
Show up for transit riders and a street for people. We get what we fight for! Join us!
Pre-register to Speak: PWI Committee Meeting on Hennepin Ave S
Pre-register to speak at Public Works & Infrastructure (PWI) Committee’s Hennepin Avenue public hearing.