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Symptoms and Causes of Car Dependency on Lake Street

By on January 8, 2019 in Cars, Neighborhoods, Placemaking, Urbanism

I want to talk about Lake Street. Specifically, East Lake Street. More specifically, East Lake from about 35W to about 36th Ave S. There’s a ton I like about this stretch. Every tortilleria, taqueria, and independent grocery, for example. The proximity to Powderhorn Park, a jewel in the Minneapolis Park system. The Midtown Global Market. […]

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National Links: Banning Cars and Greener Roads

By on October 16, 2018 in Links, Streets

Every day at The Overhead Wire we collect news about cities and send the links to our email list.  At the end of the week we take some of the most popular stories and post them to Greater Greater Washington, a group blog similar to streets.mn that focuses on urban issues in the DC region.  […]

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The Winter of Minnesota’s Transportation Discontent

By on September 26, 2018 in 2040 Minneapolis Comprehensive Plan, Bicycling, Cars, Streets, Transportation, Urbanism

  I was reviewing the comments to the Draft Minneapolis Comprehensive Plan, and I came across an unexpected theme: That’s a weird and surprising notion. I didn’t expect to come across someone who’d suggest a popular form of winter transportation and recreation was not feasible in the winter. I continued reading… Whaaat? Well, maybe this […]

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Car-Free Day Car-toons

By on September 20, 2018 in Bicycling, Carfree, Cars, Environment, Freeways, Humor, Land use, Sketches, Transit, Transportation, Urban Design

Saturday, September 22 is World Car-Free Day! OurStreets Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Downtown Council and a few local groups are celebrating it on Friday, September 21st. In honor of this blessed event, I’m posting a few car-toons. The U.S.A. (including Minnesota) remain “The Land of the Cars!” Here’s a new American flag proposal so outsiders will […]

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How You, and All of Us, Can Escape Car Dependency

By on September 20, 2018 in Carfree, Transportation

I’m coming up on my two-year anniversary of being car-free in Minneapolis. But it didn’t happen at the snap of my fingers. Selling my car was the last step in a gradual, deliberate process that involved becoming aware and making decisions based on how I move around the city (and the world), and no small […]

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Driverless Cars and the Cult of Technology

By on September 7, 2018 in Cars, Culture, Development, Environment, History, Traffic, Transportation, Trends

We constantly hear that driverless cars are just around the corner. We’re told they will revolutionize transportation and enable us to continue using our car-based transport and land-use system. If they’re made by Tesla, they’ll be powered by magic, solar-powered, super efficient batteries and we’ll all be able to keep living our hyper-mobile, hyper-consumptive lifestyles […]

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A Modern City for People Would Devote Less Space to Cars

By on July 19, 2018 in Cars, Land use, Parking

I have been struck lately by how much space privately-owned automobiles take up. It’s the Starbucks on Marshall that got me thinking about it, and just the sheer percentage of that lot that is devoted to moving and storing cars. All space devoted to use for cars is people-unfriendly. Car space increases distances between destinations. […]

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Autonomous Cars Can Be Safe or Mass-Marketable, Not Both

By on May 30, 2018 in Cars, Safety, Transportation

You might remember a rash of people on social media becoming suddenly interested in “the Trolley Problem” a few years ago. A classic ethical thought experiment about the dilemma posed by a runaway trolley, contemporary interest in it has been revived as corporations and engineers (PDF) begin grappling with programming and design decisions that will govern […]

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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

By on May 18, 2018 in Roads, Transportation, Trends

Quite a furor surrounded the recent death of Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, AZ, her body broken by a ton of steel and glass, processors and sensors. The most perplexing aspect of the tragedy, though, was the subsequent frenzy of legislative action, an outpouring of posturing that revealed, if nothing else, the deep denial we as […]

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Unsafe Streets Are Inequitable: For Vulnerable Road Users, “Doing Everything Right” Isn’t Enough

By on May 17, 2018 in Bicycling, Carfree, Infrastructure, Roads, Safety, Transportation

On July 30, 2015, I was riding in the bike lane of Marshall Avenue, commuting home from work, when I was hit by a car driver turning left (midblock, into a parking lot). I am only just this month—May 2018—settling with the driver’s insurance company. Here are just some of things that have to go […]

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