Tag Archives | Bottineau Transitway

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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Transit-oriented political developments

By on March 30, 2012 in Governance, Infrastructure, Plans, Transportation

The session’s not quite over, but probably all the bills that will pass this year at the MN Legislature have been introduced.  I thought streets.mn readers might be interested in those bills that affect the state’s transit landscape, so here is a bowdlerized version of a summary from my personal blog.  Warning: I am not [...]

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2/14/12 Minneapolis Transportation & Public Works Committee

By on February 19, 2012 in Environment, Governance, Infrastructure, Plans, Transportation

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 [...]

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1/31/12 TPW Committee: Which way for Bottineau?

By on February 8, 2012 in Governance, Infrastructure, Plans, Transportation

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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