Ride Boldly!

MapQuest has a very cool post about how they work with data sources to ensure accuracy of routing directions that focuses on the loss – and recent reopening – of the I35W bridge in Minneapolis. It’s rare that my work life as an Internet Alpha Geek has this kind of overlap into the stuff I [...]

As they continue to build the I35W bridge – while also doing construction work on MN36 and MN280, completely making my commute near-impossible, and helping me go through my THIRD windshield this year – a Colorado paper has an interesting ‘outside’ perspective on the bridge project. The bridge is being built by a Colorado company, [...]

Parts of Minnehaha Parkway under I35W will be closed for several weeks to allow some of the bridge work contruction, according to MNDOT and the Star-Tribune. some of the paths – pedestrian and bicycle – will be kept open throughout. I’m not sure if the city actively plow those paths as they do the Cedar [...]

The new I35W bridge design ‘allows for’ but suggests a pedestrian crossing will not be included in the building of the new bridge.

The City of Minneapolis is looking to put a traffic light at University Avenue and 6th to assist cyclists and pedestrians.

Minneapolis’ 10th Avenue Bridge is scheduled to reopen in time for the start of classes at the University of Minnesota.