Tag Archives: rural transit

Walking Crookston

Greater Minnesota
Urban Design
Walking

H. Jiahong Pan 潘嘉宏 • January 30, 2019

8am. I just finished walking an hour and a half from the Grand Forks Amtrak station. It’s a Saturday morning at the end of September in 2017, and the night before, I spent 6 hours on the Empire Builder traveling from the Twin Cities. After crossing the bridge to briefly visit East Grand Forks, and […]

Transit Oriented Sprawl in Sherburne County

Greater Minnesota
Housing
Land Use
Planning
Railroads

Alex Rowland • February 25, 2016

Sherburne County lies between the two metropolitan areas of St. Cloud and the Twin Cities. Highway 10 will take you directly from St. Paul to St. Cloud, passing through Elk River, Big Lake, Becker and Clear Lake. US Census data indicates that the county’s population more than doubled between 1990 and 2010, from roughly 42,000 […]