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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Not on My Bike Path!
Midtown Greenway Coalition email subscribers, twitter followers, or website visitors will have seen this notice at some point today: Let the Sun Shine In The Midtown Greenway Coalition fights excessive shadowing on the Greenway. What the Coalition is fighting is the shadowing of the Greenway that would result from the proposed development of a 6-story mixed-use [...]
What is the Constituency of a Local Land-Use Decision?
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 space on the ground floor. The location is a commercial node in an affluent Minneapolis neighborhood that was first developed along a streetcar line in the early 20th [...]
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The Politics of Dumb Infrastructure
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Rails to Trails…to Rails
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No Parking and De-Signing Streets
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Free transit? A thought experiment.
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Three Half-Assed Freeways That Nobody Will Miss
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Three Half-Assed Freeways That Nobody Will Miss
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The Cases for (and Against) Public and Private Networks
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Podcast #36 – East Side Better Block with Andrew Howard
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Water for our future
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In a West End town, a dead end world
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Bill Lindeke: My crazy vision with half the Hiawatha Avenue ROW ...
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Bill Lindeke: 1) Bike path + freeway for cars = FAIL
2) Live ...
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Bill Lindeke: Just an observation, but vehicle counts are a bit ...
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Matt Steele: I'll use Hiawatha as a Minneapolis example of a p...
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David Levinson: I agree with most of the commenters that Ayd Mill ...
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Walking Distance, Part 1: Today I'm starting a two-part blog post on walking in cities. In the first part of this post, we'll look at the question of how far people are willing to walk in real-world circumstances. In the secon...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
