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• The Politics of Dumb Infrastructure [Revisited]: 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...
  
• Reading the Highland Villager #86: [Basically the problem is that the best source of Saint Paul streets & sidewalks news is the Highland Villager, a very fine and historical newspaper. This wouldn't be a problem, except that its no...
  
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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...
  
• 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...
  
• Heart of Midtown threatened by widening of I-94 [in Detroit]: Opinion: Heart of Midtown threatened by widening of I-94. I read this headline to my students, who started laughing. Detroit, yes Detroit, Michigan is looking to widen a major highway, because presuma...
  
• 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...
  
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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...
  
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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...
  
• 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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  Greenways as a road to gentrification (happy hour Q and A): Who: Dr. Melody Hoffmann, bicycle advocacy researcher Where: Honey, 205 E Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55414 When: 5:30 pm on Thursday June 27th (program at 6:00pm) At this happy hour Q&a...
  
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  Are Minnesota craft breweries doing enough to market themselves differently?: Communications Conversations Last week, I attended a great event at a craft brewery here in Minneapolis named 612Brew (hosted by Minnesota PRSA). I had a great time catching up with...