The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) is quietly eliminating the at-grade boulevard options (A and B) from the Rethinking I-94 project. This move, rushed before the holidays, deprives communities of a chance to explore a transformative alternative to the highway trench. 🧵(1/9)

City of Minneapolis is leaning towards converting 28th to a 2-way bikeway between Lyndale and Blaisdell. It's part of a Safe Routes to School project.

The Whittier Alliance wants that conversion to happen on 26th Street, adjacent to the school.

Highways are really awful barriers to the urban fabric, as we can all intuitively grasp

A cool paper this year used smartphone data to show that highways create a meaningful distortion in how people move around cities, especially for non-work trips
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