The 2022 Met Council TAB Grants: a Suburban Perspective
An overview of some of the more interesting suburban infrastructure projects awarded grants by the Met Council in 2022, from a pool of an unusually large $355 million.
Category: Transportation
National Links: Best New Bike Lanes in the Country
Top bike projects of 2022, rent control in Boston, aligning climate priorities with city budgets and more national links for the week of February 5, 2023.
A List for Robert Garcia
When Robert Garcia, a newly elected member of Congress, asked on Twitter for progressive ideas at the intersection of climate and urbanism, he got hundreds of responses.
Walk the Talk: Transportation and Community Engagement
Advocate for safe neighborhoods in Minneapolis, environmentally sound street reconstruction in St. Paul, the Blue Line extension and more.
The Case for Building Northern Lights Express, Part Two
NLX will be one of the most economically built mass transit projects in the United States, giving taxpayers a great return on their investment, increasing affordable housing supply and reducing freeway traffic.
The Case for Building Northern Lights Express, Part One
“Everything necessary to build a world-class transportation connection between Duluth/Superior and Minneapolis is now in place,” says the chair of the NLX Technical Advisory Committee.
Walk the Talk: Capitol Advocacy, Fat Biking and Adopting-A-Stop
Our compilation of events and opportunities for engagement includes this week: a statewide multimodal summit, a venue for local litter control and equity work outdoors and on transit.
Walk the Talk: Bike Maintenance and Transportation Meeting
Global Fat Bike Day, making good decisions about the freeway in Duluth and talking land use with the local Sierra Club chapter: Helping Streets.mn readers “Walk the Talk.”
Want Better Transit Service? Advocate, Protest — and Ride the Bus!
Metro Transit isn’t using all the tools in their toolbox to improve service, even in the face of continued cuts. But we as individuals have advocacy toolboxes of our own.
National Links: Community Feedback Needs Reform
Links from The Overhead Wire to urbanist news from around the country/world. This week: reforming the community engagement process, the shrinking urban drugstore market, and the unfolding ecological collapse of the Great Salt Lake.