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Dec 11, 2011 · 100 Most Recent. 2024: A Personal Transportation Year in Review Alicia Valenti • January 17, 2025 ; Walk the Talk: At-Grade I-94, E-bike Summit and Lake Harriet Festivals
Street Views: Mapping Highways' Footprint - Streets.mn
12 hours ago · I’ve got highways on my mind this week after MnDOT moved to remove the “at-grade” boulevard options from consideration in the Rethinking I-94 process at a project meeting on Friday, January 17. As Streets.mn already has reported, very little “rethinking” has gone into this process. But, while some may be shocked at the idea of removing a freeway and question where all of those fast ...
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We formed Streets.mn because we think transportation and land use news and information in Minnesota can be done better. This site explores the pressing issues facing our cities, towns, neighborhoods and the places in between. Mission To foster positive connections and inclusive conversations about better places in Minnesota. Core Values A better place is one that is…
Behind the Scenes of a Neighborhood Bike Theft - Streets.mn
4 days ago · Editor’s note: This is part one of a two-part story detailing both a personal experience with and the broader problem of bicycle theft in the Twin Cities — what police could do about it, but often aren’t, and how cyclists could better protect their property. Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about bicycle theft. Not the one 30-plus years ago when my first really decent bike — a purple ...
Street Views: A Year of Streets.mn
Dec 26, 2024 · Unsurprisingly, “Streets.mn Community” was our second most covered category, with 39 articles. Streets.mn grew in reach and ambition this year with a tabling presence at the Our Streets Imagine Cedarfest event in Cedar Riverside last August, bringing a physical presence to grow the Streets.mn community in under-covered parts of the city.. We also brought readers into our process of ...
Streets Archives - Streets.mn
Sep 11, 2024 · Reconstruction that prioritizes safer intersections, two-way bikeways and transit connections will give Lyndale Avenue a much needed refresh and help the local community thrive.
Street Views: Out to Eat - Streets.mn
Dec 18, 2024 · In other cases, tying restaurants to neighborhood identity happened more intentionally. Take Eat Street, the stretch of Nicollet Avenue loosely defined from Franklin Avenue to the former Lake Street Kmart (whose future is still being decided by city planners). The Whittier Alliance embarked on a neighborhood revitalization effort in 1997 and rebranded the stretch of Nicollet Eat Street — a ...
Presenting Dense City: Making the City of Lakes - Streets.mn
Jan 2, 2025 · We’re talking about her paper “Making the City of Lakes: whiteness, nature, and urban development in Minneapolis,” published in the Annals of the American Association of Geography with co-authors Hannah Ramer, Kate Derickson, and Bonnie Keeler in 2023.. Follow Rebecca Walker on Twitter @RebHWalker
Optimism About Minneapolis for the New Year, and Beyond
Jan 5, 2024 · Editor’s note: This post appeared originally in Alex Schieferdecker’s blog, “Pocket Track: A Blog About Cities.” Recently I saw a Reddit post, shared on Twitter, from an American who had been traveling for a month in Europe and upon returning home had rapidly become disillusioned with American urbanism.“The way [they] are set out to be so pedestrian-friendly. …