Word on the Streets

Pro Walk, Pro Bike, Pro Place

Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition Board President Latrisha Vetaw and I flew to Vancouver, Canada to attend a conference called Pro Walk, Pro Bike, Pro Place.

This experience changed the way I think about what it means to not just live in, but participate in a city. The conference centered around promoting active transportation, and creating spaces and policies that allowed for a healthy population to thrive.

posted by | October 17, 2016

BAC September Engineering Meeting

I’m BAC! I was out of town for most of the summer but I was excited to be able to attend the Bicycle Advisory subcommittee meeting this September. Unfortunately, I was gone too long as I mixed up the times and missed the meeting entirely. So this post is compiled with the help of the meeting minutes. I hope to do better next month.

posted by | October 03, 2016

Protected Bikeway on Washington: Inches & a Handful of Parking Spots Away

Next year, Hennepin County will finish its reconstruction of Washington Avenue from Hennepin Ave to 5th Ave in downtown Minneapolis. It will have world-class sidewalk-level protected bikeways. We hope that this top-notch bikeway will connect to protected bike lanes that extend to the University of Minnesota to connect the two biggest destinations in Minneapolis. But currently we are inches short of that. We hope to get there in the coming months with your support!

Washington Avenue rendering

Rendering of under construction Washington Ave from 5th to Hennepin

posted by | September 30, 2016