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If the Center of the American Experiment Wants to Fix Congestion, They Should Fight for Telecommuting

By on June 13, 2017 in Free Idea, Politics

According to a Star Tribune op-ed that’s already been heavily covered by streets.mn, we’re in for a summer long bombardment of messaging financed by local partisan think tank Center of the American Experiment. Despite reams of research that argues otherwise, motorists will see billboards, bumper stickers, and radio ads proclaiming that the only way to fix […]

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A map of city blocks in Saint Paul.

Getting Around the Block: City vs. City

By on April 20, 2016 in Downtown, Minneapolis vs. St. Paul, Streets

In my previous post, I compared the city block layouts of the downtowns of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. This time, I thought I’d zoom out and compare the whole cities. Above is the map for Saint Paul, a city of about 300,000 residents. Blocks that are green, yellow, and dark red are smaller in size, […]

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Map of city block in downtown Saint Paul.

Getting Around the Block: Downtown vs. Downtown

By on April 18, 2016 in Downtown, Minneapolis vs. St. Paul, Streets

How hard is it to get around the city block where you live, work, or shop? Does that affect the modes of transportation you choose on a daily basis? Does it impact the choices of city planners, or the areas where businesses choose to locate? Until I started working in downtown Saint Paul, I often […]

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Twin Cities Future Trunk High way Map?

Introducing the Twin Cities Metro Area Future Highway Map

By on February 4, 2016 in Freeways, Maps, Transportation

This is one idea of what the state trunk highway system could look like in the future, perhaps 30 years out. I’ve pointedly avoided calling it a “fantasy” map, since it’s based mostly on official planning documents, not me drawing lines wherever I think a new freeway would be cool. I’ve also excluded the “I-894 […]

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GIF of the Day: Hennepin-Lyndale Bottleneck Through the Years

By on September 4, 2015 in History, Infrastructure

Reconstruction of Minneapolis’ Hennepin/Lyndale bottleneck has begun. There will be traffic tweaks and some much needed bike/pedestrian improvements, but this reconstruction won’t be a radical makeover of the kind Scott Shaffer proposed over a year ago. Scott suggested we “drop the spaghetti bowl” (a “mess of undulating streets and arcing flyover ramps to and from the freeway, […]

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MnDOT and Saint Paul’s Apology Doesn’t Change Anything

By on August 24, 2015 in Cars, Freeways, History, Race, Transportation

On July 17, The Minnesota Department of Transportation and Saint Paul mayor Chris Coleman apologized for bulldozing the Rondo neighborhood of Saint Paul to build Interstate 94. Beginning in 1958, the freeway destroyed nearly a thousand homes and businesses and it displaced thousands of people at the core of a predominantly African American neighborhood. It […]

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What Is the Capacity of I-94?

By on June 23, 2015 in Traffic, Transit

I recently wrote about the Capacity of the Green Line, demonstrating a huge amount of underutilization under both reasonable and unreasonable assumptions. I thought I should do the same for I-94 in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Of course a freeway and an LRT are different things, so the kinds of assumptions and the available data […]

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Friday Photo: Two Views of Minneapolis’ Historic Churches

By on September 26, 2014 in Photos

Acting on a suggestion from Matt Brillhart, here are two noteworthy views of Minneapolis two most beautiful and historic churches, the Basilica and the Hennepin United Methodist Church.   The former is from Andy Sturdevant’s recent column in Minnpost, and the latter (I think) is from my friend Peter (though I cannot quite recall).  

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