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Trails vs. Transport: Misaligned Goals?

One comment common to many alternative transport advocates — including individuals like former Congressman James Oberstar — is that we need to push the idea that bicycles are transportation. One of the big challenges is to overcome perceptions that bicycles are toys or recreational. They can be, certainly — but so can cars and motorcycles.

The bikes-are-toys [...]

March 11th, 2011 | Category: bicycle advocacy, bicycle facilities, bicycle recreation, bicyclists, bike trails, cedar lake trail, environmentalism, gateway state trail, midtown greenway, minneapolis, minnesota, parks, transportation options | Comments are closed

Midtown Greenway Reroutes Ahoy

This coming summer – and possibly in following years – the Midtown Greenway will have some reroutes and access point closures near Lake Calhoun. The reason? Minneapolis can either proactively replace a decaying sewer line, or face reroutes as a result of raw sewage getting free.

Obviously, fixing is a far superior choice to having raw sewage [...]

February 7th, 2011 | Category: bicycle routes, bicyclists, bike trails, engineering, midtown greenway, minneapolis, minnesota, road construction, urban planning | Comments are closed

Engineering Less Hazardous Trail Crossings

Many novice cyclists believe bicycle trails are safer than riding on the road. The core reason for this? Cars. Unfortunately, there are a lot of reasons this is potentially misguided – from the unpredictable behavior of trail users to the sorts of at-grade crossings used on many trails. Local trails, such as the Gateway Trail and [...]

February 2nd, 2011 | Category: bicycle bridges, bicycle facilities, bicycle routes, bicycle safety, bicyclists, bike trails, cedar lake trail, engineering, gateway state trail, midtown greenway, minneapolis, minnesota, pedestrian access, road construction, roadway design, roadway use, share the road, traffic calming | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Ski-U-Mah: U of M Plans Bike Center

The University of Minnesota is embracing the concept of reuse-recycle to encourage students to use bicycles to access campus by repurposing an old bus center in the Oak Street Ramp to become a bicycle center.

This project, like many others in the Twin Cities, is being supported via a grant from the Non-Motorized Transportation Pilot Program.

The new [...]

January 20th, 2011 | Category: bicycle commuting, bicycle facilities, bicycle routes, bicyclists, encouragement, federal funds, midtown greenway, minneapolis, minnesota, non-motorized transportation pilot program, urban planning | Comments are closed

Minneapolis Flashback: 1998 Chain Gang Map

Back in the day, Metro Commuter Services had a program called the Chain Gang. This really doesn’t exist as such any more, and some of the services provided in the program either are being offered through other agencies or not at all. Probably one of the nicest pieces was that Chain Gang members were eligible for [...]

August 23rd, 2010 | Category: bicycle bridges, bicycle commuting, bicycle maps, bicycle recreation, bicycle routes, bicyclists, bike lanes, cedar lake trail, midtown greenway, minneapolis, minnesota, roadway use | Comments are closed

Recent Headlines

Pedicab quandary in St. Paul: Basically, pedicabs aren’t regulated in St. Paul, and there’s a question of if adding regulation would protect operators. It probably would, if St. Paul were capable of sensible regulation – something that can be debated.

There are some classic St. Paul-isms in this article that point to that very concept:

The woman [...]

July 23rd, 2010 | Category: bicycle advocacy, bicycle routes, bicycle safety, bicyclists, bike trails, encouragement, engineering, midtown greenway, minneapolis, minnesota, politics, roadway design, roadway use, st. paul, suburbs | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
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