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April Madness: Minneapolis Tops Portland in Bicycling Mag’s Rankings
Butler may have come up short against Duke last night, but there's a Cinderella story sending ripples through the livable streets blogosphere today.
April 6, 2010
Community Benefits Agreements: What Do They Mean for Livable Streets?
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 these planning tools provides an opportunity to examine how CBAs have worked in New York and how they are increasingly being used to build livable streets.
February 26, 2010
Sponsors Sold on Health, Economic Benefits of Minneapolis Bike-Share
Don't count out Boston just yet, but it looks like Minneapolis may be the first American city out of the gate with a public bicycle system of 1,000 bikes or more. Last week, the non-profit Nice Ride Minnesota selected the Public Bike System Company (the same firm behind Montreal's Bixi) to install its system, which is slated to feature 1,000 bicycles at about 75 stations when the first phase wraps up later this year.
February 8, 2010
Bus Riders Testify About the Necessity of Transit
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 tip to Twin Cities Streets for People; see all the testimonials here). They asked a simple question: What do you use the bus for?
March 6, 2009