Tag Archives | bicycling

Washington Avenue proposed layouts are posted

By on May 11, 2013 in Transportation

Bill, David, and I have all written posts about the upcoming reconstruction of Washington Avenue, primarily to comment on questions we have with the traffic analysis.  In advance of the public open house meeting on Tuesday (at the Mill City Museum, you should attend), Hennepin County has posted four potential street layouts (thanks to @mplsbike for [...]

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Suburban Cyclists: Bridging the Gap

By on April 19, 2013 in Bicycling, Infrastructure, Transportation

This post is an editorial recap of one of the Metropolitan Council bike study meetings focusing on outer ring suburbs to identify major bike routes. There are still opportunities for people to attend in their area: Plymouth: April 24, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Plymouth Library 15700 36th Avenue N, Plymouth Chanhassen: April 25th, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. [...]

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Advisory Bike Lanes on Wooddale Ave to be Removed

By on April 17, 2013 in Bicycling, Uncategorized

A couple weeks ago, the City of Edina City Council voted to revise the striping on Wooddale Avenue. The plan will remove the experimental “advisory bike lanes” that were installed in 2012 and have proven to be a controversial issue for the City. In it’s place, the new design will feature a traditional bike lane [...]

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Saint Paul’s Nice Ride Failure Shows Need for Downtown Bike Lanes

By on April 9, 2013 in Bicycling

I saw my first NiceRider this week, an Asian student crossing the Wasington Avenue bridge on the University of Minnesota campus. It seems that, barring massive snowstorms forcing the bright green bikes to scuttle back to their hibernation caves, the Nice Ride season is upon us. They’re even expanding again, adding 24 new stations along [...]

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2012 Best Opportunity to Do Something Useful: Dinkytown Trench

By on December 28, 2012 in Best of

Is usefulness useful? Broadly speaking, the definition of usefulness as applied to transportation was set in stone a zillion years ago as meaning the movement of as many vehicles as possible as quickly as possible. But those of us whose communities all those vehicles are moving quickly through, or who have lost loved ones to [...]

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Is “Forgiveness” Just for Auto Drivers?

By on September 11, 2012 in Bicycling

  There’s been a rash of pedestrian accidents lately. When these accidents get reported in the paper or batted around the water cooler, there are often underlying assumptions about blame.  The stories typically imply that victim was intoxicated, in the wrong place, young, old, or unhelmeted (for bicyclsits). Because we all drive almost all the [...]

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Streets.mn Podcast #5 – Talking NiceRide Marathon with Ed Kohler

By on August 5, 2012 in Bicycling, Podcast, Uncategorized

I’m re-starting the Streets.mn Podcast, after many months of loitering. This episode is an interview local blogger Ed Kohler, about his recent Nice Ride marathon. Ed took a Nice Ride subscription and visited all 145 station stops in a single day, which is (quite frankly) amazing. Here’s a link! You can subscribe on iTunes as [...]

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Cycling gender gap and local infrastructure decisions

By on July 11, 2012 in Uncategorized

For the past several years, there have been ongoing discussions within the cycling community about why women are statistically underrepresented in cycling rates, and what we should do about it. There continues to be disagreement. The only thing we know for sure, is that women are, in fact, statistically underrepresented. Beyond that, disagreement, speculation, or [...]

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Fix the Hennepin/Lyndale Bottleneck

By on June 28, 2012 in History, Infrastructure, Transportation

Did you know that Minneapolis has an 11-lane street?  Did you know that some of our most picturesque places, some amazing architecture, and one of the most heavily traveled bike routes in the city sit cheek-to-jowl with what is effectively an at-grade freeway?  It’s true.  It’s called Hennepin Avenue, it’s called Lyndale Avenue, it’s called Highway 55, [...]

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Nicollet, the Greenway and K-Mart: A Vision for Discussion

By on June 25, 2012 in Bicycling, Infrastructure, Land use, Parking, Smart Growth

We’ve all seen it, and by-in-large, we all loathe it: the K-Mart on Lake Street between Blaisdell and 1st Ave S.   You know, that place where Minneapolis’ main street used to come through.  Last spring I had the opportunity to analyze this site in-depth as my landscape architecture and urban planning capstone project. At this [...]

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