If you’re paying attention, you’ll notice the Metropolitan Council, the Twin Cities regional planning agency, is stirring. They’re getting ready to update the Regional Development Framework. The RDF provides the basis for pretty much everything the Metropolitan Council does around four “systems”: transportation, aviation, water resources (including wastewater collection and treatment) and regional parks and open [...]
Safe Routes to Schools: Getting the Message Right
Safe Routes to Schools is a state and federal program that assists communities in fixing ...
2/14/12 Minneapolis Transportation & Public Works Committee
If you need an intro, please see the last three summaries. 1-4. Street Resurfacing in Linden Hills and Ventura Village, plus three blocks of 1st St S This meeting contained public hearings on street resurfacings reported here earlier. The owners of 25 properties on or near Linden Hills Blvd will be removed from the assessment [...]
No New Streets
I spent the last week in Florida doing a series of Curbside Chats and then participating in the Next Urbanism Summit, a retreat of CNU’s NextGen. We all gathered in Steve Mouzon’s (The Original Green) office and started off with everyone in the group giving a Pecha Kucha style presentation (20 slides, 20 seconds each) [...]
Loving Place
Happy Valentine’s Day! On this day when we are encouraged to show our appreciation for the people that we love, I also want to talk about the places that we love. I was reminded why I love the atmosphere of Minneapolis last night when I emerged from night class to find my car decorated with [...]
Trains are speeding up in Michigan
View Amtrak Michigan Services in a larger map While anti-rail fervor has hit a high-water mark in the past two years and major intercity rail projects have been canceled in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Florida, progress is still being made in other states. Despite neighboring both Ohio and Wisconsin, the state of Michigan has remained fairly [...]
A Typology of Beg Buttons
The mid-august sun is hastening the sweat down your back as you frantically walk-run towards the bus stop where you will catch a bus to your job interview. Finally the stop comes into sight, and your bus is just pulling into it. But the stop lies across an intersecting street, and a traffic signal stares [...]
Mapping Station Use in the 2011 NiceRide Season
This post was co-authored by J. Schoner, A. Harrison, and X. Wang. It is cross-posted on streets.mn and networkdistance.posterous.com. To no small amount of clamor among the non-motorized community in the Twin Cities and nation at large, Nice Ride MN recently published their complete 2011 data. A few early cuts with Excel and ArcGIS reveal [...]
Architecture.mn’s Video Competition
Today is the last day to vote for the interesting videos over at Architecture.mn’s website. Many of them have great urban planning, transportation, and urban design angles, including one made by my friend and collage Matty Lang entited ‘Ample Parking’. Videotect 2: Ample Parking from Architecture Minnesota on Vimeo. I’m not saying you need [...]
The Boondoggle that is Light Rail
It’s about time the Star Tribune finally came to its senses and printed a sane, sound critique of the boondoggle that is light rail.
1/31/12 TPW Committee: Which way for Bottineau?
If the first two TPW summaries I posted here at streets.mn seemed a bit arcane (outfall structures? asphalt contracts?), this one should have at least one meaty topic. In fact, one topic is so meaty that I’m going to upend two millennia of mathematics to begin with #9, then briefly summarize the rest afterwards. Stay [...]
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Edina Promenade and Centennial Lakes
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2/14/12 Minneapolis Transportation & Public Works Committee
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