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• The Zoning Battle Over Al’s Breakfast – A Form Based Code With a Side of Bacon: “Why would anybody ever eat anything besides breakfast food?” – Leslie Knope “People are idiots, Leslie.” – Ron Swanson When I heard Al’s might get redeveloped, I thought the end of the...
  
• Why transportation doesn’t get the money it “needs”: In the transportation community we tend to think surface transportation is underfunded. We think there are “needs” unmet. National reports from industry groups say more resources are requ...
  
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  Three Twin Cities freeways that no one would miss: streets.mn The world’s longest on-ramp, on the west edge of downtown Minneapolis.We’ve been down this road before. Urban freeways impact their neighborhoods through noise, pollut...
  
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  Water for our future: Over at streets.mn I have a new post on the importance of water supply planning for the next regional plan. What does all this have to do with Minnesota?  We have tons of water, right?  Well, on the...
  
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  If Washington Ave doesn’t deserve bus lanes, what does?: According to Hennepin County, around 7,500 bus riders will travel on Washington Ave at peak hour (4:30-5:30 PM) between Hennepin and 35W on an average weekday in the year 2035. For some perspective, t...
  
• Walking Distance, Part 2: In Part 1 of this post, I looked at walking distance from my own life experiences. In a nutshell, the idea that people will only walk 1/4 mile doesn't seem to hold up very well in the real world. A n...
  
• The Gun Metaphor: Why Bikes are the Guns of Transportation Policy: [Second in the highly unpopular "metaphor series" of blogposts.] [Lyndale Open Streets.]I just learned Open Streets this weekend is going to have an exciting new event this year.For those who don't kn...
  
• The Politics of Dumb Infrastructure [@ Streets.MN]: We have a political situation in the United States where Democrats are too eager to build anything if it creates a job and the Republicans are too willing to call a project a boondoggle without first...
  
• All the Best US Cycle Tracks are Street Level: There has been a lot of discussion in the local bicycling scene about cycle tracks lately. “Cycle track” is a bit of a generic term. It may refer to a one-way or two-way facility. It may r...
  
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  Bikeways for Everyone Workgroup Meeting Recap: The bikeways for everyone work group meets the third Monday of the month. On June 17th, we met in Bryant Square Park and this is what we discussed: 1. Washington Ave Update: Our work on Wash Ave i...
  
• What is the Constituency of a Local Land-Use Decision?: cross-posted at Streets.mn In the Linden Hills neighborhood of Minneapolis, a local entrepreneur put together a proposal to develop a surface parking lot into a 5-story condo building with retail s...
  
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  A Timeline of Los Angeles Transit Agencies: This timelime and diagram of Los Angeles transit agencies is impressive. It presents an honest history of transit agencies in Los Angeles and doesn't promote the false idea that there was some type of...