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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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Bar chart of bike share systems in the US from 2008 to 2013

2012 Best Trend (Hint: It’s not the Apocalypse)

By on December 21, 2012 in Best of, Featured

I put off writing about the 2012 Streets.MN best trend until this morning in case all the raining fire and brimstone would surpass the other “best trend” candidates. But since we dodged that fate, it’s time to unveil the 2012 Best Trend results! Nice Ride Minnesota is the clear winner with 44.2% of the vote.  [...]

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Minneapolis Gives Streets a Chance

By on June 13, 2012 in Uncategorized

My beloved hometown of Minneapolis is vastly cooler now than it was just a week ago, a year ago, definitely more than two years ago. Why? Two things – Food Carts and Open Streets. Urbanites are letting their actions demonstrate their desire to be in the public realm, enjoy the public realm, be urban – [...]

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Open Streets 2012 is Back

By on May 31, 2012 in Bicycling, Carfree, Streets

Following the inaugural Open Streets Minneapolis event in June of 2011, Minneapolis residents will have another opportunity to explore and enjoy their neighborhood streets without the presence of motorized traffic on June 10th, 2012.  Open Streets events (based on the Ciclovía from Bogotá, Colombia) bring together families and neighbors to bike, walk, socialize, play and shop [...]

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