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Neighborhood Resistance to I-94, 1953-1965

1 week ago | streets.mn | Tom Beer

Editor’s Note: Through an ongoing partnership with the Minnesota Historical Society, Streets.mn is republishing stories from MNopedia, the digital encyclopedia of Minnesota history published by the Minnesota Historical Society. The original text is reproduced here through a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0); photos are used with permission.
Weigh In on Minneapolis Rebuild of 35th and 36th Streets

2 weeks ago | streets.mn | Christopher Vaughan

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of articles about seeking and elevating community engagement in Minneapolis’ reconstruction of two south-side thoroughfares. Note that the first opportunity for input is at an open house on Wednesday, April 30.
METRO Gold Line Opens to Fun and Fanfare

1 month 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.
Minneapolis' Skyway System Deserves Another Look

2 months 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.
Is Minneapolis' Housing Market Suffering From Success? - Streets.mn

2 months ago | streets.mn

Low, flat rents are driving Minneapolis's housing development slowdown. That's not necessarily a bad thing.
National Links: Why Apartments Matter - Streets.mn

Jan 24, 2025 | streets.mn

Will greater enforcement of traffic violations increase highway safety or promote racist policing? That topic and more in our weekly “National Links.”
Street Views: Mapping Highways' Footprint

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.
Highway Removal Skeptics: Your Questions, Answered

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.
All We Need Is Enteignen for Socio-Technical Breakthroughs

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.
Street Views: A Year of Streets.mn

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.