Tag Archives: Nice RIde crowdsource project

Nice Ride’s Five-year Goal should be Connections to Transit

Note: This post is part of the streets.mn/Nice Ride crowdsource conversation, a series of crowdsourced looks at how to expand or improve Nice Ride planning. Check out the rest here. The wedge of city I wrote about in my last post – between the river and Hiawatha from the falls north to Seward – is rich in […]

A Short-term Growth Strategy for Nice Ride in Minneapolis

Note: This post is part of the streets.mn/Nice Ride crowdsource conversation, a series of crowdsourced looks at how to expand or improve Nice Ride planning. Check out the rest here. Nice Ride is a vital component of a growing integrated mobility system in the Twin Cities. Still, not enough people use bicycles for utilitarian trips to grow […]

Nice Ride and the Birchwood Exception

Please donate to streets.mn for the “streets to the max” day! Thank you for your support. Note: This post is part of the streets.mn/Nice Ride crowdsource conversation, a series of crowdsourced looks at how to expand or improve Nice Ride planning.Check out the rest here. One of the cooler facts that I learned from the recently […]

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Sunday Summary – November 1, 2015

Here’s the week on streets.mn to enjoy after an extra hour of sleep as Daylight Savings Time ends and with your morning coffee and those Fun Size Snickers® from your (or your child’s) Halloween candy. Nice Ride wrap-up The end of October is also the end of our collaboration with Nice Ride to crowdsource analysis and recommendations […]

Expanding Access Is Nice Ride’s Seminal Challenge

Note: This post is part of the streets.mn/Nice Ride crowdsource conversation, a series of crowdsourced looks at how to expand or improve Nice Ride planning.Check out the rest here. As an interloper to Minnesota and now as a former resident, one of the proudest features of my adopted hometown is Nice Ride Minnesota, our (not sure if […]

Why Not Nice Ride Cargo Bikes?

Note: This post is part of the streets.mn/Nice Ride crowdsource conversation, a series of crowdsourced looks at how to expand or improve Nice Ride planning. Check out the rest here. Part of the streets.mn and Nice Ride crowdsourcing project was to help identify “new tools and approaches” that Nice Ride should explore to make it easy […]

Nice Ride Ideas to Improve Saint Paul: Neighborhoods, Transit Vacuums, Libraries, Wayfinding

Note: This post is part of the streets.mn/Nice Ride crowdsource conversation, a series of crowdsourced looks at how to expand or improve Nice Ride planning. Check out the rest here. After reviewing questions and data from NiceRide MN I have the following observations to make as they relate to equity of station placement. When designing their system, […]

Sunday Summary – October 25, 2015

We do have Official Business to do here at streets.mn and the board elected new officers yesterday which is the official business being announced. Read the post to find out who we are, but also where streets.mn started and how it’s grown. We hope we grow even more, but we need your assistance by writing, becoming […]

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Growing Nice Ride to Support Alternative Transportation Options

Note: This post is part of the streets.mn/Nice Ride crowdsource conversation, a series of crowdsourced looks at how to expand or improve Nice Ride planning. Check out the rest here. As a long-time bicycle commuter and cycling enthusiast, I have enjoyed the benefits of cycling, sometimes over substantial distances, as a substitute for other forms of transportation. […]

Nice Ride, the Green Line, and the Griggs Bikeway

Note: This post is part of the streets.mn/Nice Ride crowdsource conversation, a series of crowdsourced looks at how to expand or improve Nice Ride planning.Check out the rest here.   I live in the Lexington-Hamline neighborhood of Saint Paul, which stretches from University Avenue south to Summit Avenue between Hamline Avenue and Lexington Parkway. When Nice […]