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Big Ideas to Bolster Car-Commuter Safety

By on November 27, 2019 in Light Rail, Parking, Transportation

Citing increasing crime on and near car storage sites in the Twin Cities, an urban Minnesota blog post writer plans to introduce several safety proposals that deserve serious consideration. Nicole Salica, a leading voice on transportation issues, plans to ask a legislator to introduce their proposal during the 2020 session. Salica told a writer that […]

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Open Streets MPLS Participants Prefer Protected Bike Lanes 24-to-1

By on November 7, 2019 in Bicycling, Bike lanes, Development, Events, Infrastructure, Transportation

This post was cross-posted from the Our Streets Minneapolis blog. Another summer of Open Streets Minneapolis festivities has come and gone, and during all the fun, the Downtown Bikeways Work Group collected some valuable data about people’s bike lane preferences. A poster with images of the different types of bike lanes you can find in Minneapolis […]

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Steve from Wayzata’s Long Fourth-Quarter Walk

By on November 4, 2019 in Downtown, Transportation, Walking

On Thursday, October 24, the Minnesota Vikings played a home game against a semi-professional team from Washington, D.C. Sometime the weekend after, Steve Arundel, a fan from Wayzata who attended the game, wrote about his experience to the Star Tribune. On Monday, October 28, Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal reporter Nick Halter noticed the letter in […]

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A Vision for the Dan Patch Corridor

By on October 9, 2019 in Railroads, Transportation

Last year I posted about the potential for regional rail in the Twin Cities and Minnesota, and for this post I’ll be focusing on a route that has been of interest to me for over a decade; the Dan Patch Corridor between Minneapolis and Northfield. Some background on myself: I’ve lived in West Bloomington my […]

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What Does Greta Thunberg Want?

By on October 7, 2019 in climate, Governance, Transportation

If you have a pulse, you can’t have missed the demonstrations that Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg has been organizing around the world. Whether you call it Global Warming, Climate Change, or, lately, the Climate Emergency, our changing climate is what she is organizing schoolchildren globally to protest about on Fridays. Most people have a favorable […]

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Sustainable Child Play

By on October 4, 2019 in Children, Culture, Transportation

I spent half of a recent Saturday outside helping some friends do yard work in what most would call a working class to low-income neighborhood of Saint Paul. It’s a pretty diverse place, too, with U.S.-born black, indigenous, and white people living side-by-side with immigrant families from many countries. My friends’ duplex apartment is on […]

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Review: Lyft MAX Scooter by Segway-Ninebot

By on October 3, 2019 in Carfree, commute, Downtown, Transportation, Trends

The first word that came to mind when taking my first ride was “solid”. With 10-inch tires (8-inch on older models) and a battery over double the size of previous generations, Lyft’s new MAX model developed by Segway-Ninebot is a beast engineered for the abuse cycle of rental scooters. Lyft introduced the MAX in the […]

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To Decarbonize Transportation, MnDOT Needs To Challenge Itself To Reduce VMT

By on September 27, 2019 in climate, Environment, Streets, Transportation

Just this past week, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) released a report entitled “Pathways to Decarbonizing Transportation” that models various ways for the state to achieve its climate goals. These goals were set in the Next Generation Energy Act (NGEA) that was passed in 2007 and signed by Governor Tim Pawlenty (!!!). Minnesota aimed […]

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Dispatch from Car-Free MSP Day

By on September 23, 2019 in Bicycling, Carfree, commute, Downtown, News, Streets, Transit, Transportation, Trends

My 5am chariot awaits! @MoveMpls @MplsChamber @jweinhagen #carfreemsp pic.twitter.com/2BmLkctI64 — Andrea Carver (@AMCarver72) September 19, 2019 Andrea Carver, of Becker, started her car-free journey at 4:46 a.m. when she took the Northstar Commuter Rail to Minneapolis. At 6:10 a.m., she took the Blue Line light-rail train from Target Field Station to Nicollet, then walked on […]

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Meet a Roundabout: U.S. 61 in Forest Lake

By on September 16, 2019 in Bridges, Cars, Highways, Infrastructure, Maps, Pedestrians, Roads, Safety, Schools, Sidewalks, Traffic, Transportation, Trends

“Meet a Roundabout” is a new series of posts about roundabouts in the Twin Cities area that are improving traffic efficiency and safety. Posts include pictures and video of the roundabout and a history of how it came to be. This is the third post in the series. On Saturday, I drove my father to […]

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