Transportation

Airports will survive tower closures

By Conrad deFiebre, Minnesota 2020

Minnesota's St. Cloud and Blaine airports won't be seriously affected by pending closures of their control towers due to federal sequestration spending cuts, local officials say. Nine out of 10 U.S. airports already operate safely and efficiently without towers, and the scheduled closures of 149 across the country were based on their relatively low traffic levels.

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Broad coalition calls for major transportation investment

By Staff, Minneapolis Labor Review

Building Trades union members helped fill the State Capitol rotunda for a April 17 rally calling for increased state investment in transportation infrastructure, including mass transit. The crowd included John D. Townsend, White Bear Lake, member of Piledrivers Local 1847 (left, holding sign) and Theodore Day, Columbia Heights, also a member of Piledrivers Local 1847 (right, holding sign).

A statewide coalition of business leaders, organized labor, local government officials and transportation advocates — Transportation For A Stronger Economy — filled the State Capitol rotunda April 17 for a rally calling for this year’s legislative session to pass and fund a balanced, comprehensive and statewide transportation plan, one that builds roads and mass transit.

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Road construction coming to West River Parkway and 31st Avenue South

By Rebekah Peterson, My Broadsheet

West River Parkway and 31st Avenue are scheduled to be repaved this spring and summer. Details below.

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St. Paul: Update on Grand Avenue pedestrian safety improvements proposal

By Jeff Roy, Summit Hill Association

On March 12th, representatives from Summit Hill Association, Macalester Groveland Community Council and the Grand Avenue Business Association (the “Collaborative”) took the latest step in seeking City funding to make pedestrian safety & traffic calming improvements along Grand Avenue between Hamline Avenue and Lexington Parkway in the wake of recent pedestrian deaths.

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What to do with pro-car populism?

By Bill Lindeke, Streets.MN

I was catching up with an old friend the other day, an economic geography professor who moved away for a job at a big West Coast university. We were eating dinner and swapping stories.

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The case for (and against) public subsidy for public transport

By David Levinson and David King, Streets.MN

In most of the United States and much of the world, public transport is publicly subsidized. Everyone in an area pays for transit whether or not they use it. This was not always the case, and need not everywhere be the case. Once mass transportation was provided to the public for profit (in Minneapolis and St. Paul as well as most other US cities) from the late 1800s through the first half of the 1900s. While rights-of-way were often publicly provided, the companies operating transit paid for the maintenance of those rights-of-way above and beyond what was required for transit.

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Suburban cyclists: Bridging the gap

By Justin Foell, Streets.MN

This post is an editorial recap of one of the Metropolitan Council bike study meetings focusing on outer ring suburbs to identify major bike routes. There are still opportunities for people to attend in their area:

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COMMUNITY VOICES | Open Saint Paul: What concerns do you have regarding the safety or comfort of walking, biking, or driving on Marshall Avenue? What opportunities do you see for improvement?

By Staff, Open Saint Paul

The City of Saint Paul has begun a community-based study to explore opportunities to improve safety and comfort along Marshall Avenue between Snelling Avenue and John Ireland Boulevard. This project builds off the 2010 Bike Walk Central Corridor Action Plan that identified Marshall Avenue as a bicycle alternative to University Avenue, as well as community efforts to improve Marshall Avenue over the last 15 years. This study may identify additional minor improvements west of Snelling Avenue, but will primarily seek to identify appropriate improvements east of Snelling Avenue. The City Public Works department has requested funding through the CIB process to implement improvements identified through this study.

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Open Streets coming to Minnehaha Avenue

By Rebekah Peterson, My Broadsheet

Open Streets is coming to Minnehaha Avenue on Sunday, August 11th. If you haven’t heard of Open Streets, it’s one day when the street is closed down to cars, and people are invited to bike, walk, and skate down the road.

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Reconsidering the Nicollet Mall redesign

By Nathaniel Hood, Streets.MN

There is a $20 million sum of state money that may be dedicated to redesign Nicollet Mall. While $20 million could bring some impressive changes to the pedestrian mall, these funds would represent an unfortunate misapplication of limited resources.

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