Twin Cities Streets for People

Sponsored by the Pollution Control Agency, this year's central exhibit in the Eco Experience is around a streetscape Read more >

Complete Streets is the law in Minnesota - On May 15, 2010, Governor Tim Pawlenty signed the Omnibus Transportation Bill (SF 2540), which included Complete Streets language passed by both the House and Senate in late April. The bill passed by wide margins: 58-3 in the Senate and 109-25 in the House. Vayong Moua from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota shares his perspective. Read more >

Not exactly about transit (but there's a bus in it)

"LA Metro: Promoting Mass Transit", a video by EMBARQ

Via EMBARQ >

Los Angeles' Metro is doing something that no transit agency in the country has ever done: it's marketing its products and services as if it were a private company bent on turning a profit. But for Metro marketing isn't about increasing the bottom line. It's about reducing traffic, cleaning the air and making people's commutes in this auto-clogged city a bit less stressful.

The City of Saint Paul is assembling a new Transportation Committee of the Saint Paul Planning Commission - Please apply by April 30. Read more >

For years I use to commute through Prospect Park on my daily Journey into the City. So it was a nice surprise when I came across this NYCDOT proposal to make Prospect Park West, which currently is a mini hiway (think Portland and Park in Minneapolis), to take away one lane to create a two-way bike path. This would be a huge benefit to residents, park users, pedestrians, and even the drivers themselves.

Can this sort of complete streets treatment be applied to the Twin Cities? We have numerous one-way three lane streets that function as mini hiways right through the heart of residential neighborhoods. While some do have curb side bike lane, would a larger lane with a buffer be more inviting for cyclists while also calming the traffic. To take it a step further, would it not make sense to see a two-way bike lane on some of our larger and wider streets.

The Twin Cities region, according to CNT, is making it clear that living in the city is much more affordable for not only housing, but transit as well. On the flip side living outside the city core housing and transit both start to exceed 45% of gross income. Read more >

Sometime in the not too distant future, John wakes up in suburban Chicago on a Saturday morning and heads to a White Sox game...in Detroit. Join him on a 300 mile journey to Detroit's Comerica Park as he experiences the transportation options of the future: a neighborhood electric car share program, smart phone ticketing, high-speed rail, and connecting light rail. This clip is brought to you by America 2050 as part of its "A Better Tomorrow" project to visualize America's future communities and transportation systems.

Blueprint America: Beyond the Motor City examines how Detroit, a symbol of America’s diminishing status in the world, may come to represent the future of transportation and progress in America. Watch it here. Read more >

Like it or not, the Central Corridor LRT line got the much needed federal push that it got last week from our president. Now that is seems to be moving forward will the three lawsuits tie up construction and the actually building of the line for years to come? The University of Minnesota, MPR, and Rondo residents all have three seperate lawsuits stating that Metropolitian Council has not taken their concerns, and mitigation, into account with the line.

Many feel that these lawsuits are the chance for at least two large institution to grab the mitigation funds which is leaving nothing left over to address the concerns of residents and small businesses. Should MPR and the U back off? Are we really going to delay the line because of these suits? What you think?