Koochella Rising
A women’s track cycling team forms to take the Minneapolis velodrome by storm.
Category: Visual
The A Line: Snelling Avenue Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Project Preview
The A Line is a new kind of bus service for the Twin Cities’ busiest urban streets. Bus rapid transit – or BRT – is a package of transit enhancements that adds up to a faster trip and an improved experience that includes frequent service, train-like features, enhanced stations, enhanced security and specialized vehicles.
Photo Friday: Desire Path of the Year
Check this out: streets.mn reader Ben Somogyi can be seen trouncing through the gaping chasm left by students’ smart feet on the grassy grave of Wesbrook Hall at the University of Minnesota. As the picture was taken, an old man remarked to the photographer that “you think they’d know geometry at the University.”
Story of the Century: Hipster Cyclists vs. Suburban Cops in Pedal Pub Melee
On May 6, 2492, assuming we haven’t made any major changes, the eight planets of the solar system will align. Until then, we’ll have to entertain ourselves with lesser celestial events, like Halley’s Comet, or with what is possibly the most perfect news story to ever hit the Twin Cities. By now, you will have […]
Going Green
Short, cute video about the romance between a bird and a traffic signal, but also apparently throwing some barbs at some urban design decisions.
Bike Saint Paul
As the city of Saint Paul struggles to implement its bicycle transportation plan, let’s take a moment watch a couple of guys bicycling the hills of Saint Paul. Bike Saint Paul. Fun little edit of bombing hills in Saint Paul with Morgan Pease and Andy Arkelin of fastcrusade.com. Shot in one afternoon. My first time […]
Antonio Rosell Presentation at Solutions Volume 3
Antonio Rosell talked about cities in the parking lot next to Intermedia Arts way back in 2008. It is a great presentation.
The Return of Roadkill Bill
As Bicyclopolis Book II takes shape on my drawing table, there will be a brief intermission during which Streets.mn will reprise a colorized Roadkill Bill comic strip every Sunday. This week, Angerman returns to protest the expansion of a road. Click on the comic to make it bigger:
Fresno: A City Reborn – Rare 1968 Documentary by Victor Gruen Associates
After having invented the modern American shopping mall with his design of Southdale in Edina, Victor Gruen spent much of his career working to reverse the population movement from core cities to sprawling suburbs across the U.S. This short film covers his work in Fresno which includes many parallels to Minneapolis-Saint Paul in that freeways were […]
Walkers Have the Right of Way
The Minnesota Department of Health recently released this educational video on its Youtube page. Set to a hip and catchy jingle, the video does a good job communicating the message that people walking have the right of way at every corner in Minnesota–not just at marked crosswalks. The video description, however, makes it seem like to […]