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Yes, Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan for Transportation

By on February 26, 2020 in Politics, Transportation

  A recent post here at streets.mn focused on the transportation policies of 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates. In this 3,000+ word analysis, five of the six current candidates’ policies were covered in depth, and one candidate was given a single sentence. This gives the false impression Warren doesn’t have a plan. The reality is that […]

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Dem Presidential Candidates on Transportation Policy and Funding

By on February 17, 2020 in Infrastructure, Politics, Transit, Transportation

Are you voting in the DFL primary? Who should you vote for? There are many, many different considerations for which candidate best represents your views or responds best to your concerns. One of those concerns, perhaps, involves transportation and land use in Minnesota. On this here website these particular issues are discussed on a daily […]

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B Line Feedback Needed by Friday, January 31

By on January 27, 2020 in Bus Rapid Transit, Downtown Saint Paul, Neighborhoods, Transit, Transportation

For those of us who live in the Merriam Park neighborhood of St. Paul, on the city’s western edge close to Marshall Avenue (the Capital City’s equivalent of Lake Street), the upcoming B Line will mean faster rides to catch art-house films in Uptown in Minneapolis or walk with friends at Bde Maka Ska. Headed […]

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National Links: The Return of SB50

By on January 14, 2020 in Advocacy, National Links, Streets, Transportation

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. […]

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Notes From the Minnesota Statewide Passenger Rail Plan Meeting

By on January 13, 2020 in commute, Greater Minnesota, Infrastructure, Railroads, Streets, Trains, Transportation, Travel

On Jan 7, a meeting on the Minnesota Statewide Passenger Rail plan was held at the McColl Pond Environmental Learning Center in Savage, and streets.mn was invited to join other local media outlets and elected officials to hear about updates to the plan. No one else from streets.mn said they were going, so, because I […]

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Stories from the Streets of Hennepin County

By on January 8, 2020 in Buses, Transit, Transportation

There is a gentleman who rides the 747 bus from downtown Minneapolis to the TCF Corporate offices in Plymouth. This gentleman walks with a slight limp, a gait acquired through years of blue collar work performed while standing on concrete floors. When he walks from the bus stop north on Hennepin County Road 61 (Xenium […]

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Bus Lanes Now For Downtown Minneapolis

By on January 7, 2020 in Bus Rapid Transit, Buses, Downtown, Streets, Transit, Transportation

I started writing this piece in my head on December 2nd, a cold, slushy evening on which I attempted to take the bus from downtown Minneapolis to Lyndale and 28th in order to attend a public meeting about street safety. I say “attempted” because—although I did eventually get to where I wanted to go—very little […]

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How Minneapolis Can Become A Transit City In One Decade

By on January 1, 2020 in Trains, Transit, Transportation

In the past month, the excellent transit blogger Alon Levy has written two posts that have particular relevance for places like the Twin Cities. This isn’t always the case, since Levy is more commonly focused on America’s older and larger transit systems (especially New York). His perspective is shaped by having lived in a number […]

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#eBikeThoughts: Rage Against the Machine

By on December 30, 2019 in Bicycling, Streets, Transportation

Electric bikes have a chance to succeed where traditional bicycles have failed. By adding the assistance of a small motor, eBikes are starting to chip away at some of the excuses why drivers won’t switch to cycling as a primary or even supplementary means of transportation. Although adoption is relatively new in the United States, […]

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Car Subsidy as a Cost-Recovery Measure for St. Paul: Time to CARPe Diem

By on December 30, 2019 in 2040 St. Paul Comprehensive Plan, Cars, festivus, Governance, Plans, Public Policy, Streets, Transportation

The Climate Action and Resilience Plan (CARP) recently passed by the St. Paul City Council is an excellent, and necessary, first step to move St. Paul toward a sustainable future. You can read the plan here. Making the plan’s vision a reality will require developing many specifics that the plan does not flesh out. It’s […]

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