How to Bike to Work: A Beginner’s Guide
Commuting by bike can be a source of happiness, health, productivity and pride. Here are some tips on making a habit of it.
Tag Archives: bike lanes
Sunday Summary – March 25, 2018
Happy Spring! If you missed the Annual Writers’ Workshop you can still be a writer, ask questions about how we work. Just take a look at our Write page and contact us. Beyond writing, there are other ways to get more involved with streets.mn; this page lists our committees and their standing meeting times and our Events […]
Sunday Summary – February 4, 2018
Superbowl Sunday is finally here. streets.mn writers had much to say about the stadium in its development phase, now’s the time to see how it works for a huge event. You could have been watching other sports, too, including cross country skiing on Nicollet Mall. Or, just take a quick walk up Nicollet with Matty […]
Bike Lanes and Racial Equity
Why are people so mad about bike lanes, when, in fact, they can protect everyone equitably across our towns and cities?
Who Will Ride; How Far, When, On What ?
A very common comment from people is that they don’t ride a bicycle because they don’t feel safe on our streets. This is largely a universal human condition and not limited to just the U.S. Dutch folk feel no more comfortable in various situations than U.S. folk. And this is what drives transportation engineering in […]
Three Short-Term Projects to Make Downtown Saint Paul Safer on Bike
On November 7th, Saint Paul elected a new mayor for the first time in twelve years, former Ward 1 City Council Member Melvin Carter III. Carter campaigned on a platform that pledged to move Saint Paul forward, calling to “reduce our city’s carbon footprint by expanding transit, biking, and pedestrian opportunities citywide” and to “design […]
26th and 28th Street Changes Are About Safety For All
This past Saturday there was a bike lane protest that included “Nazi Lane” and “Mafia Lane” signs. Such rhetoric is disturbing, offensive, and trivializes the very real negative impact of white supremacy. Never do it. That protest was against recent changes to 26th and 28th Streets in Whittier and Uptown. Thankfully there was also a bike […]
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Traffic Chaos
Last week Jon Tevlin wrote in his Strib column about how the combination of detoured traffic from Franklin Avenue (now closed to replace the bridge over 35W) and new bikes lanes on 26th Street and 28th Street was going to result in “traffic chaos” that would be like “push[ing] hamburger through a straw.” Here’s a […]
Getting To School By 5th Street NE On Bikes
By my count there are six schools on or one block off of Jefferson Street in Northeast Minneapolis. From the trail at 18th Avenue NE to 4th Avenue SE, there’s Spero Academy/Heartwood Montessori, Sheridan Elementary, Webster Elementary, Aveda Institute, Marcy Open School, and the University of Minnesota. 5th Street NE is a bicycle boulevard and […]
Three Things the Twin Cities Would Do if it Really Wanted an Amazon HQ
More housing, multimodal streets and better transit funding would be key to getting a Twin Cities Amazon headquarters. (But do we want one?)