Transportation
Second Central Corridor business forum focuses on March 1 start date, scheduling and street closings
While the first Central Corridor business-to-business forum focused on the concerns and strategies of local businesses along University Ave., the second part of the forum held on February 15 at the Brownstone Building shifted gears toward scheduling logMORE »
University Avenue businesses talk to each other, plan for coming Central Corridor construction season
Phase two of Central Corridor construction begins this March between Hamline Ave. and Rice St. In an attempt to prevent the failures seen last year, the City of St.MORE »
Omnibus transportation policy bill proffered
Speed limit violations, online driver’s education training and dollars for organ donation are part of a proposed omnibus transportation policy bill.MORE »
Arches of Lowry bridge near completion
The Lowry Bridge arches are close to being completed, and they are looking tremendous. Ever since seeing the original proposals, I was quite excited at the prospect that the bridge could become a visual feature that would come to define north Minneapolis in a more positive light. (Okay, and northeast too.MORE »
Airport noise in Standish and Ericsson neighborhoods
Have you heard an airplane go by recently? Many Standish and Ericsson residents have been hearing multiple flights overhead. What’s more, the flights are extremely loud. Airplanes can be heard from inside the house and are particularly nerve-wracking when people are working or playing outside.MORE »
Bottineau Transit update
As much as suburban residents may want to take light rail into the downtowns for jobs or recreation, planners are banking on there also being near-downtown residents eager to travel to the suburbs for the same reasons. North Minneapolis touches two such anticipated light-rail lines, Southwest and Bottineau.MORE »
Healthy Corridor For All?
We’ve written about why we love the Central Corridor Light Rail Transit Line (CCLRT) between downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul.MORE »
A new direction for transportation?
The law directing the nation's priorities for transportation and infrastructure expired in 2009, and instead of crafting a new one for the succeeding six years as per tradition, Congress extended the expired one continuously.MORE »
Light-rail construction lags on campus
Complications with construction on the Central Corridor light-rail project have caused contractors to miss major deadlines in the University of Minnesota campus area.MORE »
Lowry bike lanes and a blogging success story
Last summer, I found out that the Lowry Bridge bike lanes initially planned were not up to the standards that I had hoped to see - nor did they meet what many bicyclist groups had wanted, nor did they pass muster in accordance with long-term plans for Lowry Avenue.MORE »
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