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WEBAdvocacy. Announcements. Erik Ruthruff • August 30, 2024. Streets.mn is launching a multi-week donation drive to support our mission of creating more livable, sustainable and vibrant communities across Minnesota. Join the campaign!
When the Rubber Leaves the Road - Streets.mn
WEB23 hours ago · Once in the body, these particles permeate the blood and, via the circulatory system, the entire body. The chemical makeup of tires also raises concern. Where the Rubber Meets the Road found “heavy metals, natural and synthetic rubber, plastics, hydrocarbons, and traces of other chemicals (e.g. 6PPD),” all of …
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WEBMichael Daigh • July 10, 2024. The Enlightened Urbanist: Deconstructing the Perfect Gatekeeper. Ruth Sheldon • July 9, 2024. Minneapolis’ Natural Upzoning Experiment. Zak Yudhishthu • July 8, 2024. An Open Letter on the Future of Lyndale Avenue. Philip Schwartz • July 5, 2024. You Are Cordially Invited to the Streets.mn Picnic.
Podcast - Streets.mn
WEBPodcast. We’ve got all kinds of good audio content about transportation and land use in Minnesota for you, including: interviews with folks working on cool projects, behind-the-article looks at Streets.mn posts, field trips, and interactive segments. New episodes are published on the 1st and 15th of each month, and are typically less than an ...
The Minneapolis Street Grid: Explained - Streets.mn
WEBSep 11, 2024 · A couple neighborhoods (Lowry Hill and Bryn Mawr) have a grid of only avenues. The East-West avenues and the North-South avenues are named. In North Minneapolis, numbered avenues run East-West, with the origin of numbering also being Hennepin Avenue. Most of the roads in North Minneapolis are avenues, with North-South roads west of Sixth Street ...
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WEBSep 10, 2024 · Streets. Bryan Formhals • May 28, 2024. With Lyndale Avenue South due for a complete reconstruction by the county, take a tour of the current corridor while contemplating its past and future. A safe, fun and functional multi-modal corridor in action. Photo by Laura Groenjes Mitchell.
Bike to Duluth: Come On, Do It! - Streets.mn
WEB3 days ago · Let’s go! It’s about 170 miles from Minneapolis proper to the lift bridge. It’s real flat. Mostly bike path, but a couple stretches of road. A reasonable rider can do this in about 13-15 hours. Come on… do it! This is what I typed into the “About” section of a Facebook event called “Bike to Duluth!” in hopes of coaxing the ...
Who Pays for Inclusionary Zoning? - Streets.mn
WEB4 days ago · Inclusionary zoning (IZ) is a widespread tool for developing affordable housing in the United States. Minneapolis, Bloomington, Richfield, St. Louis Park, and Edina all have inclusionary zoning policy, and St. Paul recently flirted with the idea in a proposed, but never completed, study.. The central concept of IZ policy requires a certain proportion (usually 5% to 20%) of units in new housing ...
Walking All the Streets of Eastern Midtown Phillips
WEBJan 7, 2022 · Walking. Max Hailperin • January 7, 2022. Minneapolis’s Midtown Phillips neighborhood is bounded by Chicago and Bloomington avenues and by 24th and Lake streets east. On this first day walking the neighborhood, I focused on the eastern half, starting in the southeastern corner at the intersection of Bloomington and Lake.
The Saint Paul Nut Roll: How I Organize an Annual Social Ride
WEBSep 27, 2024 · In August, a bunch of my friends, acquaintances and some new faces got together for the third annual Saint Paul Nut Roll, a social bike ride themed around St. Paul’s most delicious export, Pearson’s Salted Nut Roll. This year, nearly 60 people rode with us, cruising across the city, eating Salted Nut Rolls and getting to know one another.