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Walking All the Streets of Eastern Keewaydin

By on December 14, 2018 in Neighborhoods, Walking

Near the lake, where I previously walked, Keewaydin’s streets are rarely horizontal or vertical on the map. Between 28th and 34th Avenues South, though, all the orientations are nice and tidy. Enough to bore a cartographer. Perhaps that’s why whoever platted the neighborhood decided to have some fun with the spacing. A double-wide block? Sure, perfect […]

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A Dangerous Crossing in Coon Rapids

One Month Later: A RRFB Crossing Failed

By on December 11, 2018 in Bicycling, Infrastructure, Roads, Safety, Signals, Suburbia, Walking

Just over a month after I wrote a post criticizing county traffic engineers for a half-baked attempt at protecting pedestrians and cyclists crossing busy streets, I unfortunately was proven right by a crossing in Anoka County. On November 20 two girls crossing Highway 47 at Pederson Drive in St. Francis were struck at the crosswalk […]

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Walking All the Streets of Western Keewaydin on Lake Nokomis

By on December 7, 2018 in Neighborhoods, Walking

Minneapolis’s Keewaydin neighborhood includes much of Lake Nokomis. Both names come from the “cult of Hiawatha,” as do those of several of the streets. By walking the portion of the neighborhood to the west of 28th Avenue South, I included the parkland surrounding the lake. In the route map, the blue tint indicates the full […]

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Official opening sign of the bridge that opened in 1901

A Neighborhood Walk Through the New Pedestrian Nicollet-Boom Island Bridge

By on December 6, 2018 in Bridges, Neighborhoods, Walking, Waterways

After material delays and over 6 months and $2M in the making, the Nicollet-Boom Island bridge is open again! In one way, it’s just a footbridge. We had a neighborhood one growing up in Rochester. I don’t remember much of it other than being a 10-year old and using it as a quick shortcut to get […]

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Walking All the Streets of Northeastern Jordan

By on November 30, 2018 in Neighborhoods, Walking

Jordan is a mid-sized neighborhood, about 25 miles of walking, and I had already toured the western and southeastern thirds. One more segment let me see the rest of the places where folks live, study, work, and enjoy nature. I began at the corner of Fremont and Lowry Avenues North and wound my way back to that point as […]

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Walking All the Streets of Southeastern Jordan

By on November 23, 2018 in Neighborhoods, Walking

My first day in the Jordan neighborhood featured churches, food, public art, a community garden, and a slipform paving machine. Spoiler alert: this time there was no slipform paving machine. My route began at the southeastern corner of the neighborhood, the intersection of Emerson Avenue North and West Broadway Avenue. A chain-link fence surrounded a big […]

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The Palace Theatre, St. Paul’s W. 7th Place and its Pedestrian Mall

By on November 21, 2018 in Events, Transportation, Walking

West 7th Place in St. Paul has often been a small and cool pedestrian area for me. It’s also been a pre-event meetup place at (now closed) Wild Tymes for a concert at the X a few blocks away, or next door to it at the least desirable venue in the Twin Cities. Dating back […]

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Walking All the Streets of Western Jordan

By on November 16, 2018 in Neighborhoods, Walking

The Jordan neighborhood in Minneapolis’s Near North community forms a herniated right triangle thanks to the role of West Broadway Avenue as its southwestern border. In the route map, the light blue tint indicates the full extent of the neighborhood. My first day’s walk was restricted to the western tip of the triangle. The darker […]

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Walking All the Streets of Humboldt Industrial Area

By on November 9, 2018 in Neighborhoods, Walking

The Humboldt Industrial Area has hardly any public streets to walk. The interior is devoid of them aside from one cul-de-sac portion of 47th Avenue North, shown in red on the route map. Even the perimeter isn’t all public right-of-way: the southern border is the historic Soo Line, now Canadian Pacific Railway. That railway is […]

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Walking All of the Streets of Eastern Howe

By on November 2, 2018 in Neighborhoods, Walking

A glorious spring day made for an enjoyable walk through the eastern part of the Howe neighborhood, including the Mississippi River bluff. Indeed, I enjoyed the walk so much that I didn’t take as many photos as usual. Perhaps that’s just as well. Regular readers will already have seen quite a bit of the neighborhood […]

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