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Following the hottest year on record, Streets.mn contributors share their intentions to lead more climate- and planet-friendly lives in 2025. Read »
100 Most Recent - Streets.mn
Dec 11, 2011 · The 100 most recently posted articles, sorted by newest to oldest.
Street Views: A Year of Streets.mn
Dec 26, 2024 · Unsurprisingly, “Streets.mn Community” was our second most covered category, with 39 articles. Streets.mn grew in reach and ambition this year with a tabling presence at the Our Streets Imagine Cedarfest event in Cedar Riverside last August, bringing a physical presence to grow the Streets.mn community in under-covered parts of the city.. We also brought readers into our process of ...
Highway Removal Skeptics: Your Questions, Answered
7 hours ago · Editor’s note: This article was originally published in the Minnesota Reformer on January 9, 2025, and is reprinted with permission. We encourage Streets.mn readers to attend MnDOT’s Rethinking I-94 Policy Advisory Committee meeting on Friday, January 17, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Learn more and register here. The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) announced late last year they ...
Climate-Conscious New Year's Intentions - Streets.mn
Jan 1, 2025 · Now that the hottest year on record has drawn to a close, we want to share how our Streets.mn contributors plan to lead a more climate-friendly life in 2025. We call these open-ended intentions rather than hard-and-fast resolutions, in a nod to the reality that behavior change takes practice — and sometimes, as human beings, we fall short.. But we keep trying!
About Streets.mn
We formed Streets.mn because we think transportation and land use news and information in Minnesota can be done better. This site explores the pressing issues facing our cities, towns, neighborhoods and the places in between. Mission To foster positive connections and inclusive conversations about better places in Minnesota. Core Values A better place is one that is…
Street Views: The Real Cost of Highways - Streets.mn
Nov 26, 2024 · For comparison, I chose suburban communities based on the timeline of their development. In the 1970s-1980s following the most significant highway construction in the Twin Cities, 11 communities ranked as the fastest growing in the metro, becoming home to white residents leaving Minneapolis and St. Paul to live and build wealth while still accessing downtown employment and cultural ...
Passenger Rail in Minnesota and the Case for Thinking Smaller
3 days ago · Editor’s note: This is the first installment in a series of proposals for how a local rail network could work for Minnesota and beyond.. Transit enthusiasts are used to seeing a new high-speed rail (HSR) proposal for the United States every few months — colorful and ambitious diagrams that turn complex transportation challenges into sleek graphic design.
All We Need Is Enteignen for Socio-Technical Breakthroughs
2 days ago · The Folly of ‘Affordable Housing’ I highly recommend the 2021 film PUSH by Fredrik Gerten for an in-depth look at the global housing crisis and its economic trappings. In short, we don’t actually have a shortage of housing itself. We have a broken system for distributing goods and resources that makes it profitable to create shortfalls and …
Classic American Cars and a Bookstore on Wheels - Streets.mn
4 days ago · Macalester-Groveland. One of the most entertaining things about biking around St. Paul is finding the unheralded or out of the ordinary. A home and fences decorated with hundreds of metal art signs, a yard covered completely with artificial turf, and on this trip, distinctive, decades-old vehicles.