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3 weeks ago | 
streets.mn | Katie Nicholson
In the days leading up to Saturday, March 22, 2025, Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) stations were fully constructed with a countdown to the opening of the brand new METRO Gold Line, officially billed as Minnesota’s first BRT with proper guideways. After years of debate over the location of its eastern terminus, the project was finally brought to fruition.
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1 month ago | 
streets.mn | Megan O'Neal
“The skyways are absolutely horrible.”Gil Peñalosa, urban planner and champion of Ciclovía/Open Streets (MPR, 2015)Downtown Minneapolis has a hidden world tucked away on its second story. Ten miles of bridges and connected interior spaces are carved out from the inside of skyscrapers, and they are filled with people, food, commerce, idiosyncrasies and beauty.
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2 months ago | 
streets.mn
Low, flat rents are driving Minneapolis's housing development slowdown. That's not necessarily a bad thing.
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2 months ago | 
streets.mn
Will greater enforcement of traffic violations increase highway safety or promote racist policing? That topic and more in our weekly “National Links.”
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
streets.mn | Joe Harrington
I’ve got highways on my mind this week after MnDOT moved to remove the “at-grade” boulevard options from consideration in the Rethinking I-94 process at a project meeting on Friday, January 17. As Streets.mn already has reported, very little “rethinking” has gone into this process.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
streets.mn | Joe Harrington
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 were rejecting a proposal to turn I-94 into a boulevard between Minneapolis and St. Paul.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
streets.mn | David Ackos
BERLIN, GERMANY — Berlin residents have shown a path out of our global housing crisis via the Deutsche Wohnen & Co. Enteignen (DWE) movement — a mass civil society campaign to socialize tens of thousands of units of private housing stock owned by the most speculative and egregious landlords. However, the German government, much like our Minnesotan and national institutions, has failed to implement the voters’ mandate.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
streets.mn | Joe Harrington
Streets.mn published over 250 articles and podcasts in 2024, covering a lot of ground both literally and figuratively. Dozens of authors covered stories from neighborhood histories to highway planning to a favorite park or an ode to an electric bike.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
streets.mn | Joe Harrington
I’ve always wanted to write about food. Growing up in a classic Irish and Italian family in New England, food was always a big part of my family life. My grandmother would cook pasta and meatballs on Sundays, spending nearly all day cooking — a ritual I have come to replicate. My mother, who manages several well-known Maine seafood restaurants, and I often cooked together — I even spent seven or eight years working in one of the restaurants. You get the idea.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
streets.mn | Henry Pan
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on December 9, 2024, in the Minnesota Reformer and is reprinted under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.More than two out of five Minnesotans who received an e-bike tax rebate from the state government are tax filers with more than $100,000 in income, according to data from the Minnesota Department of Revenue, obtained by the Minnesota Reformer through a public records request. About half had more than $80,000 in income.