Transportation
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 »
Proposed state help gives push to $1.25B Southwest light rail
Plans to build the Southwest Corridor light-rail transit line, which would connect Minneapolis with Eden Prairie, are gaining momentum.MORE »
Central Corridor failures
Business owners along University Avenue were right: Central Corridor construction failed in big ways and the failures were denied and covered up during the construction season. That's the message from MPR's just-published investigation and from a St. Paul court ruling this week.MORE »
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