Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Minneapolis

Theft and Vandalism Just Not a Problem For American Bike-Sharing

By Noah Kazis | Nov 29, 2010 | 12 Comments

Even as bike-sharing spreads across the United States, it remains dogged by one persistent doubt. Critics, and even some boosters, fear that the bikes will be routinely stolen and vandalized. It’s time to stop worrying about crime, however. In America’s new bike-sharing systems, there have been essentially no such problems. Fears that public bikes will […]

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Major Bike Mojo in Minneapolis

By Elizabeth Press | May 3, 2010 | No Comments

In a surprising choice, the May edition of Bicycling Magazine named Minneapolis America’s best city for biking. The city still trails Portland, Oregon in the percentage of commuters who bike to work (4.3 percent to 5.9 percent, respectively, according to the most recent American Community Survey), but Minneapolis has been gaining momentum. Next month, Minneapolis […]

April Madness: Minneapolis Tops Portland in Bicycling Mag’s Rankings

By Ben Fried | Apr 6, 2010 | 25 Comments

Butler may have come up short against Duke last night, but there’s a Cinderella story sending ripples through the livable streets blogosphere today. Goldy Gopher is psyched about Minneapolis’s first-place finish in Bicycling’s city rankings. In a decision that upsets the entrenched order of America’s urban bicycling universe, Bicycling Magazine just awarded Minneapolis the title […]

Community Benefits Agreements: What Do They Mean for Livable Streets?

By Noah Kazis | Feb 26, 2010 | 6 Comments

A rendering of the CBA-mandated walkable development slated for the Longfellow neighborhood of Minneapolis. Image: UrbanWorks Architecture. Last week, Comptroller John Liu announced plans to convene a task force to study and issue recommendations about community benefits agreements in New York. While details on the task force are still forthcoming, the renewed public attention on […]

Bus Riders Testify About the Necessity of Transit

By Ben Fried | Mar 6, 2009 | 2 Comments

Like New York and dozens of other American cities, Minneapolis is facing the prospect of higher transit fares and less service amid the economic downturn. To impress upon state lawmakers that their constituents depend on transit to meet basic needs, the St. Stephen’s Human Rights Campaign compiled this video of testimonials from bus riders (hat […]

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