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Extend the Red Line North before South

By on August 22, 2019 in Transportation

The Orange Line bus rapid transit (BRT) between Downtown Minneapolis and Burnsville is now under construction and expected to open in 2021. This will bring high frequency bus service to the I-35W Corridor and serve stops in Burnsville, Bloomington, Richfield, South Minneapolis, and Downtown Minneapolis. Transit upgrades include new bus-only ramps from the freeway into […]

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Lime Quietly Raises Prices on Scooter Rentals

By on August 6, 2019 in Carfree, Downtown, Economics, News, Transportation, Trends

Recently, Lime increased its pricing in Minneapolis and St. Paul from $1 plus 15 cents per minute to $1 plus 20 cents per minute. For a typical five-minute ride, this increases the total cost by 14 percent, from $1.75 to $2 even. For a longer ride of 10 minutes, the increase is 20 percent. Rival […]

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Meet a Roundabout: I-494 and U.S. 169

By on July 29, 2019 in Cars, Freeways, Highways, Infrastructure, Safety, Traffic, Transportation, Trends

Last Monday, I drove my father to a doctor’s appointment in Edina. We don’t usually travel these ways, but his regular general practitioner was on vacation. At the intersection of Interstate 494 and U.S. 169 are six linked roundabouts surrounding the freeway interchange. The two-lane roundabouts — with dedicated lanes for going either right or […]

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5 Ways to Improve the Central Corridor for Everyone

By on July 15, 2019 in Infrastructure, Transit, Transportation, Walking

The Metro Green Line undoubtedly has been a boon for the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, catalyzing development throughout the Central Corridor. In a few places, however, implementation of the metro’s premier light rail route didn’t create the safe, pleasant multimodal environment that all users could enjoy. In celebration of the Green Line’s fifth […]

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Six Reasons Scooters are Good and One Reason They’re Not

By on July 12, 2019 in Carfree, Streets, Transportation

So I’ve been riding scooters around lately for science. You know, to learn stuff. I don’t know what is is about the scooters, but I’ve been extra curious about them, even more than other transportation trends like UberBlack or pogo stick sharing. Maybe it’s the fact that random conversations I have with random people about […]

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#eBikeThoughts: Battling Congestion with eBikes

By on July 11, 2019 in Bicycling, Transportation

E-Bikes have a chance to succeed where traditional bicycles have failed. By adding the assistance of a small motor, they are starting chip away at some of the excuses why drivers haven’t switched to cycling as a primary or even supplementary means of transportation. Polls have shown, up to 40% of eBike owners bought them […]

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Building a Network of Rapid Buses — How to Serve Northeast Minneapolis

By on July 9, 2019 in Bus Rapid Transit, Buses, Streets, Transit, Transportation

Several weeks ago, I published a series of articles on a potential path forward for rapid bus projects in the Twin Cities. I made an inventory of possible corridors, compared their current transit performance, and finally proposed a 2035 network of twenty routes. I got phenomenal feedback from a number of people who are excited […]

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Review: Lime vs. Lyft Scooters in 2019

By on July 5, 2019 in Carfree, Transportation, Trends

Lyft, a third scooter competitor, hit the streets of Minneapolis on July 1. Lime and Spin started this season’s operations earlier in the spring, and rival Jump, owned by ride share heavyweight Uber, will likely be joining soon. With the mid-year advent of a third scooter network operator, I tested out Lime and Lyft scooters […]

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The Blue Line Extension in Limbo

By on July 1, 2019 in Railroads, Transit, Transportation

After decades of planning, Southwest LRT (the Green Line Extension) is finally under construction. Unfortunately the news is not so good for the Bottineau Corridor (the Blue Line Extension). Between Minneapolis (specifically just west of Olson Memorial Highway & Penn Avenue) and Brooklyn Park (specifically just north of I-94) the Blue Line Extension would operate […]

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Hennepin County to Restripe Park and Portland to Restore Bike Lanes

By on June 24, 2019 in Bicycling, Bike lanes, Buses, Carfree, Cars, commute, Infrastructure, News, Streets, Transportation

In an email sent Friday morning, June 21, Hennepin County announced it would be restriping lanes of Park Avenue South (County Road 33) and Portland Avenue South (County Road 35) to restore the buffered bike lanes present before the 35@94 freeway project began. Nicole Salica reported in streets.mn last year on restriping Park and Portland […]

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