Transportation

Driven to poverty in the suburbs

By Conrad deFiebre, Minnesota 2020

With their sprawling geography and spotty transit service, suburbs are a lousy place to be poor. But that hasn't stopped people struggling to reach the poverty line from moving there. In the Twin Cities, more than half the poor now live in suburbs.

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Bike lane or cycle track for Minnehaha Ave in Minneapolis: What do you want to see?

By Rebekah Peterson, My Broadsheet

We hate to spring it on you like this, but if you didn’t know, Minnehaha Avenue between 46th Street S. and Lake Street is slated for reconstruction beginning in 2014.

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Minnesota Vikings at TCF Bank Stadium: What will be the impact on surrounding neighborhoods?

By Bill Huntzicker, TC Daily Planet

TCF Bank Stadium photo by Jenni Konrad (Creative Commons). Mascot image courtesy Minnesota Vikings.

In fall 2014 the Minnesota Vikings will move into TCF Bank Stadium just as the Minnesota Gophers did three years ago—but the professional team’s impact on the surrounding neighborhoods could be greater than the stress created by the home college team, and the Vikings have not yet agreed to a plan to compensate for the impact on the surrounding neighborhoods.

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A glimpse of biking network effects

By Prescott Morrill, Streets.MN

Recently I’ve become the steward of an amazing and rich set of non-motorized transportation data through work with Bike Walk Twin Cities (BWTC), a local non-profit administering the federal Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program (NTPP), since 2007 (part of the SAFETEA_LU legislation).

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Some suburbs see transit tax need

By Conrad deFiebre, Minnesota 2020

Leaders of the Twin Cities' most exurban counties, Scott and Carver, declined to levy a quarter-cent sales tax for transit while the five other metro counties did so under the Legislature's 2008 transportation finance law. Now Gov. Mark Dayton has proposed adding another quarter-cent in all seven counties without a local say-so.

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St. Paul Transportation Summit identifies biggest challenge: "We need revenue"

By Chris Lautenschlager, TC Daily Planet

Part of flyer with transit information - scroll to bottom of article for full flyer. 

“We have options even in the middle of a Minnesota winter!” John Mark Lucas, board chair of St.

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No such thing as the bus rider blues: Linden Hills Power and Light's Public Transportation Initiative

By Ryan Sparrow, MN Energy Stories

Linden Hills Power and Light has quite the green report card. Originally created with the goal of shrinking the community’s local carbon footprint, Linden Hills Power and Light (LHP&L) has utilized education efforts, community engagement and organizing to promote sustainable habits and energy conservation.

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Lowertown's parking challenge

By Nathaniel M. Hood, Streets.MN

This map sparked a few disparaging tweets, including a small #twitterwar with a City Council member. As it turns out, people get riled up about parking. It is as if they feel they are entitled to parking and the benefits thereafter.

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Welcome to Stadium Village: The 21st Century Dinkytown

By Chris Iverson, Streets.MN

Large, lush green space and Stadium Plazas: All available and fully grown when the Vikings come in 2014.

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Snowplows hit $18,000 in Lowry Bridge lights

By Margo Ashmore, North News

Jim Grube doesn’t drive a snowplow, but he might wish he’d had that experience as he takes responsibility for the 11 missing street light poles on the Lowry Avenue Bridge.

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