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Hennepin Avenue South: a Road Designed for Cars, Not People
Hennepin Avenue South, between roughly Franklin Avenue and Lake Street, is within the Pedestrian Oriented Overlay district (“PO District”). However, walking along it, you would never know. Hennepin...
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Dangerous Intersection: Lake & Bloomington
[This post originally appeared on Our Streets Minneapolis blog as part of highlighting the most dangerous intersections Minneapolis. The author is Clark Goldenrod.] Below are photos from the...
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Quick Take: Bike+Walk MN Conference
Last week was the inaugural Bike+Walk MN conference in Rochester, MN. I heard about the conference here on Streets.MN and so I wanted to circle back and share just a couple of highlights. Hopefully...
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Dangerous Intersection: Hennepin & 4th, 5th, & 6th Streets
[This post originally appeared on Our Streets Minneapolis blog as part of highlighting the most dangerous intersections Minneapolis. The author is Paul Jahn.] Below are photos from the intersection of...
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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
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...
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Dangerous Intersection: Franklin Ave E and Chicago Ave S
UPDATE: Hennepin County will be updating the curb ramps at Franklin and Chicago as part of their ADA curb ramp project in 2021. The sidewalk bordering Peavey Park will be made ADA compliant as part of...
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Autonomous Cars Can Be Safe or Mass-Marketable, Not Both
“UberImpact,” a questionable branding decision (Pride Parade in Seattle, Jun. 29, 2014) © Jiong Gong posted to flicker under CC BY-NC-ND license, at https://www.flickr.com/...
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Sunday Summary – June 3, 2018
Welcome to June, but first, a look back at the last week of May on the site: streets.mn Mission Hopefully, you saw the message from the Board of streets.mn — we’re in the process of updating our...
View ArticlePlease Color Outside the Lines
Recently I realized my complaints about three new urban improvements boiled down to the same thing: Careful thought and design work seemed to stop at the edge of the project. Something just outside the...
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Franklin Avenue Can’t Be Everything for Everybody
This post was written by Will Delaney, Associate Director at Hope Community, Inc. It is cross-posted from the Our Streets Minneapolis blog. Our Streets and Hope Community have been working together to...
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Bloomington’s Four-Lane Death Roads Revisited
One of my first articles for streets.mn was on Bloomington’s Four Lane Death Roads, (four lane undivided roads) written in response to Bill Lindeke’s introductory article on Four-Lane Death Roads....
View ArticleNational Links: Banning Cars and Greener Roads
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...
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The Curb is Everything
The curbside has long been overlooked and is playing a growing role in our increasingly multimodal society. It was a main topic of conversation when I attended the National Association of City...
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One Month Later: A RRFB Crossing Failed
Just over a month after I wrote a post criticizing county traffic engineers for a half-baked attempt at protecting pedestrians and cyclists crossing busy streets, I unfortunately was proven right by a...
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Let’s Ban Slip Lanes in Saint Paul
Today I took the A Line rapid-transit bus south on Snelling, meaning to get off at University and catch the Green Line train. But I wasn’t paying attention and missed the stop at University. That meant...
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Get to Know a Four-Lane Death Road: Broadway Street, NE Minneapolis
I’m going to posit that most readers of streets.mn are familiar with the four-lane death road and the very easy method of fixing them, the four-to-three-lane conversion or “road diet”. The road diet is...
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What Can Walkers Learn From Winter Cyclists?
The author, dressed to walk. I live in a privileged St. Paul neighborhood with professional cyclists — men and women of varying ages who commute by bicycle all year round, including during the recent...
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Municipal Sidewalk Clearing in Richfield: An Interview
A municipally-cleared sidewalk at Sheridan Ave and 73rd St in Richfield, MN. Having clear sidewalks in the winter is an important issue for a lot of people. People should be able to move around their...
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Marcy Holmes Revisited
I walk around the Minneapolis Marcy-Holmes neighborhood often. I didn’t realize that they have a few, new neighborhood improvements planned and I became really curious. One is the new (finally) 5th St...
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We Don’t Need Police to Keep Our Transit System Safe
Two unidentified Metro Transit Police officers conduct a routine fare inspection aboard the Green Line, which runs between downtown Minneapolis and downtown St. Paul. May 2018 I hate cigarette smoke,...
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When Quality of Life Initiatives Make Places Worse
Respect. Kindness. Inclusivity. (Courtesy Metro Transit) Metro Transit has stepped up a previously ill-defined “anti-harassment” initiative to promote “respect, kindness and inclusion among our...
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MNDoT, City, County Break Another Promise
Or, A Park and Portland Update. If you’re someone who bikes in south Minneapolis, you’ve probably noticed that the bike lanes on Park and Portland have not been restriped back to include the buffer...
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Safer, Saner Roads by Design
Engineers have a lot of options in how they design our streets and roads, how safe they make them, who they serve well and who they serve poorly. This post will examine why road design is so...
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Sunday Summary – September 8, 2019
Here in Northfield, from whence this Summary emanates, it is the real end of summer. Labor Day is observed here, but the Defeat of Jesse James is celebrated. The bank raid is reenacted every couple of...
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Opportunities to Extend Bruce Vento Trail Westward
I’d like to talk about the most fun part of my morning commute: biking along Pennsylvania Ave between Rice St and Lafayette. And by fun I mean exhilarating. And by exhilarating I mean terrifying. When...
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The New Hennepin Bus Lanes
Earlier this year Metro Transit and the City of Minneapolis did a demonstration of rush hour bus lanes on Hennepin Avenue between Franklin Avenue and Uptown Transit Station. Bus service has always been...
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Sunday Summary – December 1, 2019
Welcome to December! In streets.mn news/business/events, although prices have gone up, you can and should buy a ticket to the streets.mn fundraiser this Thursday for an evening of urbanist fun...
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For Lyndale, The Time is Now
Last night, I attended a listening session for Lyndale Avenue in Minneapolis, focused on the serious safety issues between Lake Street and Franklin Avenue. The event was organized by the county...
View ArticleWhy Do We Let the Police Define Safety?
I was on 6th Street, carefully navigating three lanes of traffic and construction. I signaled my turn as I eased into the left lane, aware of drivers moving urgently around me. Suddenly I bounced,...
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Don’t Run Us Over
I wish I could sing or play an instrument, because I’d like to make a recording of the alternate lyrics I made up for the classic Dionne Warwick song “Don’t Make Me Over,” written by Burt Bacharach...
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The People that Died Crossing Saint Paul Streets in 2019
I wanted to take a moment to pause and look back at 2019, which was a brutal year for people walking in Saint Paul. Last year, five people were killed by automobile violence, making it an especially...
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Twenty-Seven Years of Pickup Truck Design
Former Streetsblog USA writer Angie Schmitt has recently been making the point on Twitter that, despite the extremity of our climate crisis, the transition to sustainable transportation can’t be...
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The 150th Anniversary of People Being Killed By Cars
Mary Ward was the first person to be killed by a vehicle that we would recognize as a car. The 150th anniversary of her death was August 31, 2019. She lived in Ireland, raised some children, and...
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Some of the People Trying to #FixLyndale
Photo by Tony Webster By popular demand, we moved the recent streets.mn Happy Hour (a good time was had by all) over to Lyndale Avenue earlier this month to team up with the group of courageous and...
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Introducing: Minneapolis Stay Healthy Streets!
Effective April 29, the City of Minneapolis will begin creating “Stay Healthy Streets” in the 3 geographical areas of the City (North, South, Northeast). From the Minneapolis Website: Streets on these...
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Let’s Put Gates on the Minneapolis Parkways
West River Parkway The Covid-19 pandemic has given many of America’s governments—local, state, and federal—an opportunity to fail spectacularly at basic governing. A virus which has been contained in...
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Can Metro Transit Fix Policing?
Metro Transit Police checking fares on the light rail. Photo by Bill Lindeke. It probably seems like years ago. But, in actual time, it’s only been four months since February 2020. That’s when the...
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The Lake/Minnehaha Rebuild Is an Opportunity to Redefine Our Alleys
Following the reprehensible conduct of police in the treatment and death of George Floyd on May 25th, 2020, peaceful protests became agitated by subsequent aggression and retaliation by police in riot...
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Dale Street Needs a Diet
Sweeny’s Saloon has a parking lot across Dale Street from the bar. While COVID-19 might reduce the bar’s crowding, it should not prevent safety improvements! My parents and I live relatively close to...
View ArticleNational Links: The Future of Billboards
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...
View ArticleNational Links: A New Metric for Traffic Safety
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...
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Safer Summit Campaign Looks to Highlight the Facts
Here are upfront takeaways (TL;DR) on a homegrown group that is offering a different view about Summit Avenue and the bike lanes debate: St. Paul’s new plan for Summit Avenue is not finished and there...
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Your Invisible Bike and You
No, you are not crazy. That traffic light did not change for you. The red light stays that way for cyclists. Photo by the author If you are an urban cyclist, I bet this has happened to you a time or...
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Transit Is in Trouble: Can We Expect Anyone to Come Help?
I wish I weren’t writing this. But even more than that, I wish that folks could ride the Blue or Green Line light rail trains with confidence. Without fear of being pushed down the stairs at the Lake...
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Top 10 Questions for Bicyclists: Why Do They Do That?
It’s an American tradition: arguing over who controls the road. Whether it’s a parking space or a laneway, we really like feeling entitled to that concrete real estate. We fight over who should pay to...
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Top 10 Questions for Bicyclists, Part 2: Bicyclists’ Mindsets
Author’s note: For this series, I crowdsourced driver questions on social media and posted the top 10 in several bicycle enthusiasts’ and advocacy groups for their replies. For more background, see...
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Top 10 Questions for Bicyclists, Part 3: Intersections
Author’s note: For this series, I crowdsourced driver questions on social media and posted the top 10 in several bicycle enthusiasts’ and advocacy groups for their replies. (For more background, see...
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Top 10 Questions for Bicyclists, Part 4: Sharing the Roadway
Author’s note: For this series, I crowdsourced driver questions on social media and posted the top 10 in several bicycle enthusiasts’ and advocacy groups for their replies. (For more background, see...
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Top 10 Questions for Bicyclists, Part 5: Separated Bikeways
Author’s note: For this series, I crowdsourced driver questions on social media and posted the top 10 in several bicycle enthusiasts’ and advocacy groups for their replies. (For more background, see...
View ArticleTop 10 Questions for Bicyclists: Behind the Story with Sherry Johnson
We sit down with Sherry Johnson to chat about her popular article series of motorists’ questions for bicyclists! Connect with us The Top 10 Questions for Bicyclists article series Behind the Story...
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